Relative Strangers
Poet and teacher Taylor Mali knows more about his family than anyone really needs to know, especially the branch that has lived in New York City for 400 years. However, they don't all know him or each other—they are relative strangers to each other—so getting all 450 of them to meet in person in the summer of 2024 is going to be a struggle or a train wreck.
Relative Strangers
10. The Mothers & the Grandmothers
With about 10 weeks to go before 100 distant cousins get together in New York City for the first time in over a century, Taylor Mali takes a closer look at three female ancestors that all the relative strangers share, Frances Colles, Rachel Ogden Wetmore, and Adrienne Cuvelier. Also included at the end of this episode are voice memos sent in from Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, Caroline Dubois, Kate McCabe, Megan McQuillan, Tony Stewart, Olivia Jacobs, and Cordelia Pierson. Last, be sure to visit @RealtiveStrangersPodcast on Instagram to watch Trip Stowell talk about the Mystery Trunk that we will all break into on Saturday!
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