Sands Point

11/24/21 • 36 min

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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

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Bonus: Recording Saddle Rock

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Welcome to the Saddle Rock Bonus Episode! (If you haven’t listened to Episode 1 of this podcast, you may want to do that first, since we talk about how we made the episode here.)
Jon and Paulina talk about recording the music for Episode 1 of this podcast:

How to play drums when you’re not a drummer (step 1: never think about how awesome you sound)
Using VST (virtual) instruments, and why Mellotron presets sound like new money
Why they did not put Wurlitzer electronic piano on every single song even though they kind of wanted to

Also! How to tell if you’re micing a speaker and not a shelf(?), on writing happy music instead of sad music, and a preview of Episode 2: Sands Point!
Notes and transcripts to the Saddle Rock episodes: https://www.aneyesoreandaplague.com/saddle-rock

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Bonus: Recording 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)

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