Mysteries, Myths & More

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Jersey Girls -020
Mysteries, Myths & More will take a short hiatus. My episodes will return early in 2021. Thank you for listening!
Requiem for a Rooster -019
Cohen, Roger, “The Last Testament of Maurice the Rooster,” in Opinion, p. A22, The New York Times, Saturday, June 27, 2020.
The Thing About Dogs . . . -018
a “Animals have complex dreams, MIT researcher proves. Study may advance understanding of human learning and memory,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, News Office, January 24, 2001. b “Do animals dream?,” Posted by EarthSky in EARTH,
The Writing Journey -017
• “Walking,” an essay (also called, “The Wild”) by Henry David Thoreau, published in 1862, but delivered as lectures prior to that. • Rabbit-Proof Fence, 2002; produced by Phillip Noyce based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkingt...
Forgotten Lives, Part 4 Sylvia Hanish Berlin -016
Fiddler on the Roof, the musical, was first produced on Broadway in 1964 -- with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein (who also wrote Zorba). It is based on the story Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) a...
Epidemiology and COVID-19 -015
SHOW NOTES • https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm • Defoe, Daniel, A Journal of the Plague Year, 1722. • MacMahon, Brian, and Trichopoulos, Dimitrios, Epidemiology. Principles and Methods, 2nd Edition, J.P.
Willie Wideman Pleasants -013
Willie Pleasants is a longtime resident of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and an educator who holds a degree from the University of Massachusetts. As President of the Friends of the Uphams Corner Branch Library for the last 5 years,
Hope is the Thing With Feathers -012
We haven’t kept up with the Sally-B for many decades, but as I was researching this, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the plane is still flying. Although Ted White has died, Ellie Sallingboe continues to operate the B-17 with a faithful crew of...
Dead Horse Swamp and the Feather Tree -011
Robert Burns, To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785. - a www.Ancestry.com, Otto Rainer Burger, Passenger Lists. b Wikipedia, Selective Training and Service Act of