Feb 2, 2007
Having finished with Henry James, I thought we needed a REAL
woman to freshen our pallette...Calamity
Jane.
Not so much Doris.
Don't know if you've watched Deadwood (NOT for sensitive
ears!), but it at least started out close to
accurate as far as I can tell. My son and I got to see Wild
Bill and Jane's graves
when we drove through there in early August. We ate where Bill was
killed by Jack McCall--which sounds more morbid than it is...he was
killed in the poker room of a saloon. They stage reenactments of
his murder every night, I think.
Jane was quite something.
CHEERS!
And here in the "costume" of her sex.
I'm sorry it's a guy reading the autobiography, but it's still
amazing to hear her own words. She was one tough cookie. And while
she has the reputation for being, um...not the most attractive
woman of her time, I think she was actually a rather handsome
woman--far less...weathered than I would have imagined for one of
Custer's scouts.
And then a little Bret Harte
For some more local color and American Realism. Let's bring
ourselves back from the mannered Victorian brink into a little good
old American...Puritanism? Victorianism?
Ah...
When everyone knew their place...
And then some really cool links sent by really cool listeners like
Spider_Knit who sent me the Library Thing and Dawn who sent
the Purlescence
Storytellers Challenge and PeaceFleece! Whoo hoo!
WARNING: Some of you were
good enough to let me know pronto that there was a problem with the
file. I fixed the glitch in the audio file and replaced it, but not
before some podcatchers downloaded it. Sorry about that. If you
re-download you should be fine. Many apologies!