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Diary Discoveries
If you were to read an old diary, what could you discover? Secrets? Mystery? Romance? Travel and adventure? Inspiration? Since 1987, Historian Sally Ivey has collected and researched original diaries, journals, and letters from around the world. In this podcast Sally will share unique and captivating stories selected from her extensive collection. Stories forgotten over time but now shared here. Welcome to Diary Discoveries.
Podcasting since 2021 • 66 episodes
Diary Discoveries
Latest Episodes
#65 Diary Sampler 3 - Mississippi Guide, Premonition, Mexico Drug Trip.
In this episode you will hear stories from three diary's. The first is about a woman who explored the Mighty Mississippi River year after year and shared her knowledge by publishing her own guide books. Next, a diary where the author experience...
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#64 Diary Sampler 2 - Basic Needs, Chair Pusher, Crime Of A Dastard.
In this episode, we share three stories from three diaries. In the first, you will hear about a young school teacher who wrote out her idea of "The Basic Needs Of Every Life". She beat Abraham Maslow and his "Hierarchy of Needs" by twenty years...
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#63 The 1859 Gold Rush and A Lonely Heart
The 1859 gold rush to Colorado is on! "Pike's Peak or bust!" was the saying of many a fortune hunter who headed out west, but what about those left behind? In this episode, passages from a newly married woman's diary are read, and we discuss so...
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#62 Mountain Girls, Moonshine Shootout, and The Metropolitan Holiness Church. 1911
"Holy Jumpers", an Immigrant girl named Olga, and a shootout between a "revenue posse" and a moonshining family in the hills of Kentucky, all of which have a connection to Effie Waller Smith, the teacher and poet from our last episode. Sa...
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#61 Restoring A Writer's Legacy- A Tale Of Two Effie Smith's - 1906
Two women born the same year-1879, both given the same first name, both poets, and living only 150 miles apart. One was a black woman, the other, a white woman. Both eventually were known as Effie Smith. What are the odds? In this episode, we u...
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