UPDATE 2 for Object Obscura

10/30/21 • 0 min

Second update for season 2 of the podcast. The last three episodes will come out every other Friday, starting next week, November 3. So the schedule is EP 13 - Friday, November 3, EP 14 - Friday, November 19, EP 15 - Friday, December. Stay tuned - tell your friends and family about the show.

Previous Episode

EP 12 - Markers • Marginalia • Mother Goose

In this episode I have an early 1900s pencil box with a drawing of Mother Goose on the top. We discuss the deep history behind this box and the multilayered stories of different school children who owned similar boxes. Thank you to Debbie Schaefer-Jacobs from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Theme song for Object Obscura is ‘Behind the Walls’ by Nathanie Thanks to Epidemic Sound and Anchor.fm for most of the music, SFX and distribution. Music in order of appearance: A Mathematical Genius by David Celeste, Behind the Walls by Nathanie, Firefly Trail by Trevor Kowalski, Puzzle of Complexity by Jo Wandrini, Unknowing by John Barzetti, Diaphanous Dreamcoats by Silver Maple, You’re Here by Plain Strolls, Salvation Is Coming by Eoin Mantell, At the Break of Dawn by Jakob Ahlbom, Rain Ga’zing by Red Dictionary, the First Law of Motion by Johannes Bornlof and All That’s Left to Say by David Celeste. SFX and Archival credits: “The Wilson Dam School - 1942” by the American Film Center for Alabama State Dept. of Education. From Prelinger Archive. All pictures of this episode’s object are on Facebook @objectobscurapodcast, Instagram @object.obscura and Twitter @objectobscura. Go to our website as well object-obscura.com

Next Episode

EP 13 - Flights • Factory • Father

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In this episode I have a WWII flight report log book. We investigate the book’s pages and hear many unexpected stories from the soldier's daughter. Thank you to Pilot Dave and Ellen Rhinehart.

Theme song for Object Obscura is ‘Behind the Walls’ by Nathanie

Thanks to Epidemic Sound and Anchor.fm for most of the music, SFX and distribution. Music in order of appearance: Time Pressure by Max Anson, Behind the Walls by Nathanie, Closed Book by Dream Cave, Tension 5 by Erik Ekstrom, Where No Man Has Gone Before by Dream Cave, Lost Stories by Aias Conor, Monograph by Johannes Bornlof, Missing Pieces by Dream Cave, Across the Waters by Dream Cave, Extinction Path by John Sumner, Atomic Numbers 1 by August Wilhelmsson, The Last Disaster by Howard Harper-Barnes, Returning Memories by Erasmus Talbot, In Ruins by Synthetic Tides and New Dimensions by Reynard Seidel.

SFX and Archival credits:

1.) “Attention Young Men” (1947) from FedFlix on YouTube

2.) “Charlie Sweeney - Interview After Nagasaki Bomb Drop” (1945) from CriticalPast

All pictures of this episode’s object are on Facebook @objectobscurapodcast, Instagram @object.obscura and Twitter @objectobscura. Go to our website as well object-obscura.com