COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083 - jo

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knotyouraveragejo wrote: May 23rd, 2021, 8:26 pm Hi Sue. Here is one from me for this collection

How Five Women Were Educated by Kate Sanborn (1839-1917)

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf082_howfivewomeneducated_sanborn_jms128kb.mp3
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This is another article from The Chautauguan. Vol VII, p. 97

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112110967715?urlappend=%3Bseq=97
Hi Jo, What motivates anyone, female or male, to excel; that is, I guess, the question to ponder... This selection, actually, fits in quite well with James Baldwin's "Read and You Will Know," which Victoria read for this volume:

"Oh, mother, I would like to know everything."

"You can never know everything, my child. But you can learn many things from books."


Jo, your reading is PL OK, but you're one off on the SNF volume; we're up to 083! I'll leave it to you to amend the file name.
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Here's something very short, again from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_brendan_encyclopediabritannica_pn81_128kb.mp3 an entry on Brendan and his fabled voyage to the Island of the Saints with a paragraph explaining the fate of this belief in the later ages. Duration 3:31
Want to hear some PREPARATION TIPS before you press "record"? Listen to THIS and THIS
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Sue Anderson wrote: May 24th, 2021, 9:43 am

Jo, your reading is PL OK, but you're one off on the SNF volume; we're up to 083! I'll leave it to you to amend the file name.
So we are! Filename fixed.
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Piotrek81 wrote: May 24th, 2021, 11:53 am Here's something very short, again from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_brendan_encyclopediabritannica_pn81_128kb.mp3 an entry on Brendan and his fabled voyage to the Island of the Saints with a paragraph explaining the fate of this belief in the later ages. Duration 3:31
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33750/33750-h/33750-h.htm#ar148

Hi Piotrek81, Thanks for contributing this account of Saint Brendan's mythical island! :D Here's a link to a just published, illustrated article about this legendary island from the U.S. Library of Congress https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2021/04/searching-for-saint-brendans-island/. This article shows a marvelous 1621 print of Saint Brendan saying mass on the back of a whale, which he had mistaken for the paradisiacal island for which he was searching.

PL OK.
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Sue Anderson wrote: May 24th, 2021, 8:30 am
tac107 wrote: May 23rd, 2021, 4:49 pm https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_pittsburghstreets_dar_tac_128kb.mp3 63:56

Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt: Early Names of Pittsburgh Streets
by Daughters of the American Revolution of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40037/40037-h/40037-h.htm
Hi Tatiana,
Very interesting stuff; your selection really gave a feel of how very tangled up the history of the Ohio frontier was! :D No, I've never been to Pittsburg. Your recording did bring to mind a LibriVox recording from 2012, for which I was the proof listener: Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo, by Rueben Gold Thwaites. https://librivox.org/afloat-on-the-ohio-by-reuben-gold-thwaites/

Your reading was close to flawless; I only spotted one small repeat that needs to be cut out; page 33, at 33:45, beginning "The fort was so crowded.."
Reuploaded, it's now 63:49
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_pittsburghstreets_dar_tac_128kb.mp3
If she's passin' back this way
I'm not that hard to find
Tell her she can look me up
If she's got the time

Tatiana
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Thanks, Tatiana! :) PL OK.
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https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_wintertalk_beecher_sa_128kb.mp3

"Winter Talk (1859)"
by Henry Ward Beecher
from Plain and Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers, and Farming
5:54

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/58739#page/106/mode/1up

Jo, When you have time, could you please PL this one for me?
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I will!
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Here is my contribution to this volume, at 30:47:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_deathlusitania_amory_ava_128kb.mp3

The Death of the Lusitania (1917)
by Mrs. P. Amory (no dates?)
https://archive.org/details/deathoflusitania00amor_1/mode/2up
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Sue Anderson wrote: May 25th, 2021, 10:24 am https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_wintertalk_beecher_sa_128kb.mp3

"Winter Talk (1859)"
by Henry Ward Beecher
from Plain and Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers, and Farming
5:54

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/58739#page/106/mode/1up

Jo, When you have time, could you please PL this one for me?
Plain and Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers, and Farming was entertaining listening and PL OK!
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Thanks for the PL, Jo! :)
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Availle wrote: May 27th, 2021, 6:49 pm Here is my contribution to this volume, at 30:47:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf083_deathlusitania_amory_ava_128kb.mp3

The Death of the Lusitania (1917)
by Mrs. P. Amory (no dates?)
https://archive.org/details/deathoflusitania00amor_1/mode/2up
Hi Availle, Thanks for this moving first-person account of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. Well read and PL Ok! :D

Mrs. Amory apparently lived a long life despite her her ordeal at sea (1851-1942)


https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113090230/phoebe-amory

https://www.rmslusitania.info/people/second-cabin/phoebe-amory/
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Great find! 92 is an excellent age. :thumbs:

Would you like me to change the name in the recording? She did write this piece under the Mrs. P. Amory though?
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Availle wrote: May 28th, 2021, 5:03 am Great find! 92 is an excellent age. :thumbs:

Would you like me to change the name in the recording? She did write this piece under the Mrs. P. Amory though?
Name as recorded (Mrs. P. Amory) is fine. When I read the obit and saw her full name, what struck me as interesting was that she had signed her account using the initial of her own first name (Phoebe) and did not write under the usual Mrs. plus husband's initials of that era.

I got the feeling that she was a very strong willed woman, from the way she pushed her way through the hysterical mass of people trying to climb the narrow stairway from the dining room to the deck after the torpedo struck.

"There was a rush for the stairs, and everyone was trying to ascend the narrow stairway. Realizing that something of a terrible nature had occurred, I seemed to be possessed of super-human strength, and was able to push through where stronger persons were being held back... As I fought my way up the stairs, I was thrown on my knees three times."

It's a wonder no one was trampled to death.
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Not to mention that she did all of that in no more than underwear with a coat thrown over it... :shock:
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