![Christmas Traditions at the White House]()
December 26, 2020
"But really, most of what I think the average American Family associates with Christmas or the Holiday Season is a 20th century invention, so we don't have a lot of records of early Presidents throwing these big shindigs because that's not what Americans did back then. But because the White House is a family home....we've had families celebrating the holidays there, going all the way back to 1800."
Tour Guide Tell All is getting into the holiday spirit by sharing the history of Christmas at the White House! Learn about how different holiday traditions began and what to expect if you ever visit the people’s house during the holidays!
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You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner & Becca Grawl
The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King
Technical & Admin Work Done During Toddler Naptime: Canden Arciniega
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero
![The Outrageous and Tragic Life of Evalyn Walsh McLean]()
December 17, 2020
“(Evalyn Walsh McLean) is so famous that she took this big trip to Russia, and Cole Porter wrote about her. And this is when I turn my chair around backwards and I lean over to show teenagers how hip I am. 'Cole Porter was like a rapper in that he would drop references to the hottest chicks, the most important people, and all the tabloid drama!' And so the fact that she gets referenced in this Cole Porter song is definitely a testament to the fact that she was like a Kardashian, that level of notoriety and fame. And the line is: 'When Mrs. Ned McLean (God bless her) / can get Russian Reds to "yes" her / then I suppose / Anything goes....'"
Tour Guide Tell All continues it's look into the outrageous lives of some of Washington DC's wildest women, and in this episode we focus on Evalyn Walsh McLean. Once one of the most famous and envied women in the world, she suffered a great many tragedies which may or may not have been caused by one of the most famous pieces of jewelry she came to own, the notoriously "cursed" Hope Diamond.
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You’re Listening To: Canden Arciniega, Rebecca Fachner & Becca Grawl
The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King
Technical & Admin Work Done During Toddler Naptime: Canden Arciniega
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero
![The Petticoat Affair]()
December 10, 2020
“The Petticoat Affair is an amazing name. To me, it reads like a bodice-ripper title - this would be some sultry book you would take to the beach or it sounds like an old period movie. I love this story because it combines several things that you and I love which is women's history, there are some really interesting women who play in this story; presidential history, we're going to mention a lot of names that have come up in previous episodes; and it's sort of this great little scandal."
Tour Guide Tell All digs into the life and marriages of one beautiful DC woman, which became not just local gossip but a literal issue of national importance. Learn how Andrew Jackson upended his Cabinet, the double standards for women in the 19th Century, and what Martin Van Buren has to do with any of this.
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You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner & Becca Grawl
The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King
Technical & Admin Work Done During Toddler Naptime: Canden Arciniega
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero
November 26, 2020
"...it's kind of heartbreaking to me to think that there was an entire community of people, a whole culture that not only has been wiped away from the earth, but the only legacy left - doesn't even pronounce their name right."
Canden and Rebecca talk about the original inhabitants of what is the DC area today, the Nacotchtank tribe.
If you want to text to find out whose land you're on: +1-907-312-5085
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You’re Listening To: Canden Arciniega & Rebecca Fachner
The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King
Technical & Admin Work Done During Toddler Naptime: Canden Arciniega
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero
November 12, 2020
“So she and Oscar Wilde, her new friend, spend a day at the beach and they get to talking and sharing and Alice reveals how much she used to love art, the art studies she did as a young woman, and how she misses it."
Tour Guide Tell All digs into the scandalous life of Alice Pike Barney, one of the Gilded ladies of Embassy Row. Learn about her unconventional lifestyle, her wild daughters, her Sheridan Circle mansion, and why we love to talk about this New Woman on our Dark Side of Dupont Circle Tour.
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You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner & Becca Grawl
The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King
Technical & Admin Work Done During Naptime: Canden Arciniega
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero
![Election of 1912]()
November 3, 2020
“We are going to talk about the election of 1912, which is a doozy. There’s a lot going on, and some of our favorite and least favorite characters in American history are going to play starring roles in what we are about to talk about.”
Tour Guide Tell All celebrates Election Day…. Our Way!! We are bringing you the nitty gritty of one of the wildest and most tumultuous elections in US history, an election full of fascinating characters, feuds and even an assassination attempt on a candidate! We are going back in time to 1912 to talk all things Teddy Roosevelt, Taft and Woodrow Wilson.
Join Becca and Rebecca as we dig into the elements that make this such watershed moment in American political history.
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You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl
The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King
Technical & Admin Work Done During Toddler Naptime: Canden Arciniega
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero
![Rebel Rose, the Confederate Spy]()
October 29, 2020
“My supposition is that Rose O’Neal Greenhow had sex appeal. I think she had the kind of thing you can’t capture in a photo, particularly at the time. There is obviously something beguiling in her manner because she is so good at this. She has numerous friendships that people just give her information, there’s got to be something about her that helps with that, I feel like.”
Tour Guide Tell All ends our scandalous and dark October with a rollicking spy yarn. We go back to the Civil War to discuss one of the most infamous spies of the era, Rose O’Neal Greenhow. Greenhow was a well placed and dedicated Confederate spy with great connections in the Union government and she played a pivotal role in one of the earliest episodes of the Civil War.
Come along as we wrap up our October with a wily and resourceful woman and her scandalous exploits.
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This is Rose’s Wikipedia page which is really useful because it has several of famous photos of her, some of which we talk about on the pod:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_O%27Neal_Greenhow
- Her spy cipher: https://www.wdl.org/en/item/2706/
- Her archival papers at Duke:
https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/greenhow/
- National Archives has her seized letters!!
https://www.archives.gov/research/military/civil-war/greenhow
- Her death: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rose-greenhow-dies
- Her grave in Wilmington, NC
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1772/rose-o%27neal-greenhow
- The book that she writes about her exploits:
https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/greenhow/menu.html
You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl
The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Canden Arciniega
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero
