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Ep. 22: A Timeless Wardrobe – Interview with Marion McNealy

Americaness — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 23:31:26 +0000

This is a long episode, but Marion and I had a lot of ground to cover and lots of fun doing it. Maybe next time we’ll get to corsets….

Listen to “EP. 22 – A Timeless Wardrobe: Interview with Marion McNealy” on Spreaker.

First, go visit Marion’s website. And don’t forget to follow her on social media as well. She’s on Instagram @marionmcnealy.

She graciously put together a Pin Board to go with our conversation.

Here is the 1940’s book with advice on clothing for working women.

Pictures from the 30’s and 40’s from the Farm Security Administration.

The Eaton’s catalog (that CAanadian answer to Sears)

Episode 6: Hand to Hand to Hand

Americaness — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 19:16:36 +0000

In today’s episode I talk about why it’s important to learn from another person. Transmission of skills from one person to another prevents us from losing them altogether.

Listen to “Hand to Hand to Hand” on Spreaker.

Some places to learn a skill or three:

John C. Campbell Folk School

Driftless Folk School

Tillers International

Episode transcript:

Hand-to-Hand-to-Hand Download

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Episode 1 – Where We Are Going and Why

Americaness — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 17:17:00 +0000

Less than a first episode, this is more of a brief introduction. A road map, if you will. (Does anybody still know what those are?)

Why is rural American culture important? How will we find it? Where will we look? And are you coming?

In the introduction, I make reference to the following article, in case you’d like to give it a read:

“The Ghosts of Place”:
http://www.michael-bell.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bell-1997.pdf

Download a transcript of this episode:

Vintage-Americana-Intro Download

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