Episode 29: All You've Needed to Know and Then Some Since 1818
01/08/19 • 23 min
Throughout history there have been countless methods for forecasting the weather. In 1818, David Young, a poet and an astronomer from Morristown, New Jersey, launched a publication that would help take the guesswork out of this tricky task...and then some. Have you ever heard of the Farmers’ Almanac?
Credit:
Peter Geiger, publisher and editor at the Farmers’ Almanac, joined me for this wonderful episode on the history of a timeless publication. I’m grateful for his insight and stories.
Image Copyright: Almanac Publishing Company
Sources:
Farmers’ Almanac History; Farmers’ Almanac; Retrieved December 2018.
Agriculture, Food, and the Environment; Brosnan, Kathleen A. and Blackwell, Jacob; Oxford Research Enclyopedias; April 2016.
What is an Almanac?; Wonderopolois; Retrieved December 2018.
Farmers’ Almanac Timeline; Farmers’ Almanac; Retrieved December 2018.
History of American Agriculture; Bellis, Mary; ThoughtCo.; October 3, 2018.
A Visit to the Past; Duncan, Sandi; Farmers’ Almanac; December 10, 2012.
Time Travel Anyone?; Duncan, Sandi; Farmers’ Almanac; November 12, 2013.
Throughout history there have been countless methods for forecasting the weather. In 1818, David Young, a poet and an astronomer from Morristown, New Jersey, launched a publication that would help take the guesswork out of this tricky task...and then some. Have you ever heard of the Farmers’ Almanac?
Credit:
Peter Geiger, publisher and editor at the Farmers’ Almanac, joined me for this wonderful episode on the history of a timeless publication. I’m grateful for his insight and stories.
Image Copyright: Almanac Publishing Company
Sources:
Farmers’ Almanac History; Farmers’ Almanac; Retrieved December 2018.
Agriculture, Food, and the Environment; Brosnan, Kathleen A. and Blackwell, Jacob; Oxford Research Enclyopedias; April 2016.
What is an Almanac?; Wonderopolois; Retrieved December 2018.
Farmers’ Almanac Timeline; Farmers’ Almanac; Retrieved December 2018.
History of American Agriculture; Bellis, Mary; ThoughtCo.; October 3, 2018.
A Visit to the Past; Duncan, Sandi; Farmers’ Almanac; December 10, 2012.
Time Travel Anyone?; Duncan, Sandi; Farmers’ Almanac; November 12, 2013.
Previous Episode
Episode 28: A Doctor Claimed the Springs Could Cure in This Lost Missouri Town
Greene County, Missouri was once home to many bustling communities that slowly withered away. One town had quite an intriguing story. There it was said the springs could cure; that a bit of heaven had fallen to earth. A respected doctor even banked his future on the town’s medicinal wonders. Have you ever heard of the lost town of Bethesda?
Credit:
A huge thanks to author and local Greene County historian Shirley Gilmore who wrote a little book called Bethesda: Lost City in 1970, when she was a senior in high school and as part of a Girl Scout project. The book is in the reference section of the Springfield-Greene County Library in Springfield, Missouri. I also grateful for the historical insight of John Sellars, the Executive Director of the History Museum on the Square, dedicated to revitalizing and preserving the history of the Springfield, Missouri community.
Sources:
Bethesda: Lost City; Gilmore, Shirley; Girl Scout Troop #15 (Springfield, Missouri); August 12, 1970.
A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets Past and Present of Greene County, Missouri; Moser, Arthur Paul; Springfield-Greene County Library; Retrieved December 2018.
Robberson Township, Ebeneezer, Hackney, Bethesda, Glidewell; Greene County 1904; Missouri Publishing Co.
Glen M. “Heinie” Siegel; Obituary; Newsok.com; January 10, 2001.
The Lost Town of Bethesda and More on Springfield's Cryptid History; Urban Cryptids; December 14, 2012.
The Mysterious Goat Man; Urban Cryptids; May 19, 2013.
Next Episode
Episode 30: The Mysterious Life and Supposed Murder of Vincent van Gogh
On July 27, 1890, a painter sustained a single gunshot wound to the abdomen and died a few days later. This infamous event has carried through time as a suicide. After his death, the deceased became one of history’s most iconic and celebrated artists. Yet, we are only now learning the truth about his life and untimely death. Have you ever heard of the mysteries surrounding Vincent van Gogh?
I want to give a special thanks to Dr. Irving Arenberg, a prominent (retired) ear surgeon and author of the new book Killing Vincent: The Man, The Myth, and The Murder, and Louis van Tilborgh of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
Source:
Killing Vincent: The Man, the Myth, and the Murder; Arenberg, Irving Kaufman; Amazon Digital Services; October 24, 2018.
Van Gogh: The Life; Naifeh, Steven and Smith, Gregory White; Random House LLC; October 18, 2011.
Meet Vincent; Van Gogh Museum – Amsterdam; Retrieved December 2018.
Vincent Van Gogh; Historical Figures; BBC; Retrieved January 2019.
Vincent Van Gogh Biography; The Van Gogh Gallery; Retrieved January 2019.NOW
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