Bonus: Recording Sands Point

12/05/21 • 31 min

Welcome to the Sands Point bonus episode! In this episode, Jon and Paulina talk about:

Making quotes sound different even when they're all read by one person (throw some vintage tone on the audio, and/or impersonate Winston Churchill)
How much power the town supervisor had to stop the villages from incorporating (a decent amount, actually, although most of it was unofficial)
The inspiration for some of the music on the episode (1980s teen movies, mostly)

Also! A preview of Episode 3 and a few words about their favorite whiskey! Sorry in advance to any whiskey snobs who might be listening.
Notes and transcripts to the Sands Point episodes: https://www.aneyesoreandaplague.com/sands-point

Welcome to the Sands Point bonus episode! In this episode, Jon and Paulina talk about:

Making quotes sound different even when they're all read by one person (throw some vintage tone on the audio, and/or impersonate Winston Churchill)
How much power the town supervisor had to stop the villages from incorporating (a decent amount, actually, although most of it was unofficial)
The inspiration for some of the music on the episode (1980s teen movies, mostly)

Previous Episode

Sands Point

In 1910, the New York State legislature made it possible to incorporate any neighborhood with at least 50 people into a village. (What is a village? We explain in Episode 1, but it's an unnecessarily cutesy synonym for "municipality." It's basically a very small city.)
In Episode 1, we talk about how a wealthy landowner named Roswell Eldridge incorporated his personal estate into a legal village, just so he could dodge local taxes. In this episode, a group of millionaires try to do the same thing to their neighborhoods: tiny, wealthy districts called Motts Point, Barkers Point, and Sands Point. Here, lawyers and suffragists live in lavish homes nestled among the mansions of Goulds and Guggenheims. It was the inspiration for East Egg in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. But although Sands Point is just minutes away from Roswell's Saddle Rock, the middle-class residents who lived just outside the village limits were horrified by the proposed incorporation. And they decided to fight back.
Find notes and transcripts to this episode here: https://www.aneyesoreandaplague.com/sands-point

Next Episode

The Beaches

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In 1910, New York State made it possible for tiny neighborhoods to incorporate as villages. Some villages incorporated to dodge local taxes, or escape a school district they didn't feel like contributing towards. But many villages incorporated to prevent outsiders - even people who lived just a couple of miles away - from enjoying the public beaches within the village limits.
This episode is about Mill Neck, Bayville, and Sands Point, and how they manipulated local laws to keep the public off the public beaches.
Find notes and transcripts on our website: aneyesoreandaplague.com/the-beaches