Episode 26: THE WEIRD CINCINNATI HISTORY OF MAILING KIDS
Kat, Jen, and Christina are back from spring break!
First on a serious note: #stopasianhate
Lots of great links here to support your fellow Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander descent.
https://asianpacificfund.org/make-an-impact/solidarity/ways-to-help/
George Takai’s musical called Allegiance starring Lea Salonga: http://allegiancemusical.com/article/meet-george-takei-and-the-cast-of-broadways-allegiance-2/
His graphic novel:
They Called Us Enemy
Get a copy here: https://www.amazon.com/They-Called-Enemy-George-Takei/dp/1603094504
Emily Hanako Momohara
Art Exhibit
Never Again is Now
Re-photographs of American Incarceration Camps
https://ehmomohara.com/about
Next, we reveal the lineup of Cabinet of Curiosities Issue 2…
• Christina Wald and Jeff Suess with the Price Hill Medium
• Kevin Necessary with the Ghost at the Chillicothe Gazette
• Tom Miller with the Screaming Bridge at Maud Hughes road
• Inky and Aziza with the Crosswick Snake
• Steve Stegelin with Cryptids Forever
• Kat Klockow with the Ghosts of The Sorg
Finally, the main topic… Mailing Kids! Yes! It really happened in Cincinnati in the early 1900s!!
Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-children-sent-through-mail-180959372/
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/very-special-deliveries#:~:text=The%20first%20child%20%E2%80%9Cmailed%E2%80%9D%20in,Little%20to%20its%20grandmother%2C%20Mrs.
https://wrruralpost.com/kids-going-postal/
https://handeaux.tumblr.com/post/185676843780/send-your-kids-to-grandma-through-the-us-mail
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