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Recollections Podcast

by The B. Carroll Reece Museum

“Recollections” is a podcast that explores history and culture through the collections of the B. Carroll Reece Museum. Each episode highlights an artifact at the Reece Museum and uses research and interviews with experts to investigate the stories and cultural themes connected to that artifact. Five-to-ten minutes long, these short form episodes are a curated exploration of some of the items that make up the museum’s impressive collection of nearly 25,000 artifacts.The Museum is located on the campus of East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee and is a unit of CASS, the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 5: Jessie Ackermann

    Jessie Ackermann was probably the most traveled woman in the Victorian era, conducting eight world tours and visiting every continent except Antarctica. But these weren't leisure trips. Jessie was on a mission.

  2. Episode 4: Uncle Dave Macon's Collar

    For decades, Uncle Dave Macon was a star of the Grande Ole Opry. What can his collar tell us about old-time and country music cultures in the early twentieth century?

  3. Episode 3: The Eastern Tennessee Mural

    There’s a little-known Depression-era mural on ETSU’s Johnson City campus that tells a story of Appalachia in transition. The mural captures the dizzying industrial developments of early twentieth century Tennessee, and the migrations of its people within and outside the region.

  4. Episode 2: Women in the Elizabethton Rayon Strikes

    In the late 1920s, two German-owned rayon factories began operations in the town of Elizabethton in East Tennessee. By 1929, a huge strike was underway at both plants, with the women workers leading the charge. We examine a matchbook ad in our collections that launches us into the women’s side of...

  5. Episode 1: The Magical History of Bloodstones

    This episode focuses on an egg-shaped bloodstone in the Reece Museum’s collections. While little is known about the item’s history, Lynch-Thomason interviews an expert in folklore to explore bloodstone’s historic, multicultural usage as a magical tool.

  6. Recollections Podcast Sneak Peak

    This is a sneak peak of the first episode of the B. Carroll Reece Museum's Recollections podcast series.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

“Recollections” is a podcast that explores history and culture through the collections of the B. Carroll Reece Museum. Each episode highlights an artifact at the Reece Museum and uses research and interviews with experts to investigate the stories and cultural themes connected to that artifact. Five-to-ten minutes long, these short form episodes are a curated exploration of some of the items that make up the museum’s impressive collection of nearly 25,000 artifacts.The Museum is located on the campus of East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee and is a unit of CASS, the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services.

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The B. Carroll Reece Museum

Produced by Recollections: The Reece Museum Podcast Series

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“Recollections” is a podcast that explores history and culture through the collections of the B. Carroll Reece Museum. Each episode highlights an artifact at the Reece Museum and uses research and interviews with experts to investigate the stories and cultural themes connected to that artifact....

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Recollections Podcast is created and hosted by The B. Carroll Reece Museum.
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