All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories Biographical podcast highlighting the permanent residents of Laurel Hill Cemetery in Pennsylvania.
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John Carbutt is the forgotten pioneer of Philadelphia photography. Born in England, he spent the first years of his car...
12/02/2025

John Carbutt is the forgotten pioneer of Philadelphia photography. Born in England, he spent the first years of his career as a railroad photographer in Canada and the American West.

Listen Here: https://www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-kty8f-780f6a

I am running behind on release of the entire December podcast. However, part 1, "Laurel Hill: The First 20 Years" will b...
11/30/2025

I am running behind on release of the entire December podcast. However, part 1, "Laurel Hill: The First 20 Years" will be out on the 2nd, a section on Nation Dunn on the 4th, and on Benjamin Richards on the 5th. It's John Jay Smith that is hanging me up.

Charles Thomson was the man who knew where all the bodies were buried. During his 15 years as Secretary of the Continen...
11/29/2025

Charles Thomson was the man who knew where all the bodies were buried. During his 15 years as Secretary of the Continental Congress, he quietly ran the colonies and the country efficiently and effectively, and kept meticulous notes, which he later destroyed.

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All Bones Considered has surpassed 80K downloads! To listen yourself, visit https://jrlexjr.podbean.com/ or wherever you...
11/25/2025

All Bones Considered has surpassed 80K downloads! To listen yourself, visit https://jrlexjr.podbean.com/ or wherever you get your podcasts.

James Abram Garfield was the 20th President of the United States, a “dark horse” candidate in the 1880 election and the ...
11/19/2025

James Abram Garfield was the 20th President of the United States, a “dark horse” candidate in the 1880 election and the only sitting member of the house to ever be elected to the highest office in the land.

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11/16/2025

Lon Jourdet was an All-American footballer who also excelled at basketball. He spent 23 non-consecutive years as coach at Penn and captured more than 200 victories, but he left in 1943 with a bitter taste in his mouth for the University, which has come close to forgetting him. He ended his own life in 1959.

11/16/2025

New Episode Drop! Biographical Bytes from Bala #050 bounces into the origins of basketball and the Penn legends who helped shape the sport after James Naismith first hung his 13 rules on a gym door.

Meet the four University of Pennsylvania grads who left their mark:
✨ Ellwood Rutschman — the first pro ref who set the standard for fairness
✨ “Kid” Keinath — captain-turned-coach
✨ Artie Kiefaber — beloved coach and MVP namesake
✨ Lon Jourdet — zone defense pioneer with a complicated legacy

Available now wherever you get your podcasts.
https://jrlexjr.podbean.com/e/basket-ball-and-laurel-hill/

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