Hosted by the letters and things · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 138 episodes
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A treasure trove of old letters tells the story of an American family through multiple generations, with a memorable cast of characters commenting on everything from the mundane of daily life to monumental, sometimes forgotten, moments in history.
the letters and things hosts the letters and things, a society show with 138 episodes published.
In this episode, we are fully in swing with boat girl summer. This time we cover two museum boats. the Cutty Sark and the HMS Warrior, and then two sunken boats, the Vasa and Mary Rose. Lessons are learned, namely make s
In this episode, we continue boat girl summer with submersible stories. Despite being terrified of undersea, deep sea, submarines, submersibles we can't seem to get enough of talking about these guys.
In this episode, it's anchors aweigh as we launch Boat Girl Summer! In this Boat 101 episode, we discuss the syllabus for Boat Girl Summer with a rundown of the main categories of boats, which Samantha takes issue with b
In this episode, we go through two of the three Gemini Presidents: JFK and George H. W. Bush, or as he is now known Shady Bush. Both rich east coast Ivy League white guys that didn't even have to try to be President. Bot
In this episode, Samantha does a deep dive on Samantha Parkington, American Girl, which is why my Google history now has "samantha parkington's dead parents". It is the final Lynn letters, also an American girl, and I do
In this episode, we read the birthday cards of Grandma Mickey, one of which contained none other than stickers! We also discover that Sam hates adhesive. Manette is shook by this revelation.
In this episode, we cover the Taurus presidents. These guys aren't as bad as some of the others and one of them we even kind of like. We've got two James, two guys with an S in their middle name, and some eye stuff. In a
In this episode, we celebrate US Mother's Day and Thai Royal Ploughing Ceremony Day with Grandma's Mother's Day cards. Confused? So are we! All the time! Happy Mother's Day to all the moms, Mothers, and mom-like figures,
In this episode, we continue reading through the 1960s letters belonging to Lynn, who was a pre teen girl. Many questions arise like why JFK is on a Mexican stamp and what is a bushel basket? Lots of questions, zero answ
In this episode, we read some letters to Lynn, grandpas second eldest daughter (of three), but in reality all we really want to talk about is unincorporated territories of America, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Supreme Court
In this episode, we go over the Aries presidents - Thomas Jefferson and John Tyler. One is considered the worst president in history and the other one of the greatest, but take it from us - they both really suck. In this
In this episode, we continue reading through the pre-teen mail of aunt Lynn, the second daughter of dear old grandpa. An emerging theme is Lynn is a absent correspondent. A "valentine" promoting big pharma and some lette
In this episode, we exit the season of hate (March) and finally arrive at out favorite holiday - Easter! Dead Jesus, alive Jesus, eggs, chocolate, buttered popcorn flavored jellybeans, and ~ apparently ~ pink eye!
In this episode, we continue reading through the letter belonging to Lynn, who is a tween living in Palo Alto in the 60s. We get even more extreme tween energy in a letter from insane Linda, another from Margaret Frost w
In this episode we continue with presidential recounting by order of the zodiac. This time we have one sign, two fish: Pisces. We've got a couple of real stinkers: Andrew Jackson and Grover Cleveland. There's also "quote
In this episode, we continue the letters belonging to Lynn as a youth. Some letters from sister Kathy One, living in Wisconsin, while Lynn was busy not writing people back and soaking up the California son. And we get an
In this episode, we begin going through the letters of aunt Lynn, grandpa's second daughter. Lynn was trying out living in California so there's the usual letters from het sister Kathy One and family back home, but a sur
In this episode, we round out Wuthering Heights month with more Valentine's Day cards. A snarky one from Kathy One, the offensive mouse card from Grandma to Grandpa, news of Geese that Grandpa would have loved to shoot f
In this episode, we discuss the Aquarius Presidents: the Williams (McKinley and Henry Harrison), Ron Reagan, Abe Lincoln, and FDR. In a shocking twist we discover that rich boy FDR is the least problematic president so f
In this episode, we continue our reign of terror with Wuthering Heights and Valentine's Day cards. There's demonic human-faced hearts, an upsetting cherub spread-eagling a heart, and other diabolical Valentine's Day Hall
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