At long last!! After a week of messy technical problems (and a lot of ugly-crying!), we are FINALLY able to bring you our latest episode… and we think it’s worth the wait because this is THE book, folks! Without Mark Twain and Charles Warner’s masterful 1873 satire, THE GILDED AGE, well, we simply wouldn’t have a podcast! But does this collaborative classic live up to the expectations? Returning guest Gwendolyn Gage joins Amy in the studio to find out!
Plus it’s our most dramatic and tragic history segment yet, as Amy tells Gwen the story of real-life Gibson Girl model Amy Thill.
Topics and shout-outs in this episode include: Charles Dana Gibson, Josephine Gibson Knowlton, Janette Rallison, Amy Thill, John Bigelow, Benjamin Falk, John LaFarge, Julie Andrews, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, Julian Fellowes, HBO’s The Gilded Age, the Civil War, satire, Quakers, the Gilded Age, women’s rights, suffrage, emancipation, steamboats, adoption, revenge, greed, political corruption, land conservation, Millennials, and Gen Z.