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The Historic Preservationist

by Gregg Perry

Conservation scholar Gregg Perry will lead us back into time on a journey of restoring and conserving 17th -19th century period architecture furnishings and timepieces.

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  1. Episode. 1044. Black Death, Rumors and Arrival.

    With a proper understanding on how plagues spread, early individuals unknowingly helped propagate the pandemic.

  2. Episode. 1043. Black Death, It’s Unlikely Use.

    At times the Black Death was used to weaponize the plagues, using dead victims to infect others.

  3. Episode. 1042. Black Death, The Plagues That Comprise It.

    Black Death can be triggered or comprised of various plagues .

  4. Episode. 1041. Black Death, The First Pandemics.

    Three major pandemics have rocked the globe, the Justinian Plague, The Black Death and The Bubonic Plague from China. Today modern travel makes plagues much easier to spread.

  5. Episode. 1040. Black Death Introduction.

    The first great plague since the fall of the Roman Empire, fleas carried it killing a third of Europe.

  6. Episode. 1039. The Industrial Revolution, Effects of the Transformation.

    From women’s rights to a quickening of everyday society, the industrial revolution created the modern world as we know it today.

  7. Episode. 1038. Life in Colonial Times, Flax Culture and Spinning.

    Almost every female adult and child capable would use a spinning wheel to produce thread and fabric and then cream clothing for the family and the colonial military at the time of the revolution.

  8. Episode. 1037. Life in Colonial Times, Meat and Drink.

    Colonists learned what they could eat and drink as time went on, spices , many root vegetables, apples and pears, ale and hard cider

  9. Episode. 1035. Life in Colonial Times, Indian Corn.

    The native Americans schooled the early colonists down the coast how to grow, and what type of dishes to make with corn.

  10. Episode. 1034. Life in Colonial Times, Food From Forrest and Sea.

    Early colonists arriving in the new world did not find riches in the earth such as metals, but riches of plenty food, roaming animals, nuts, tree sap, fields for crops and fish and shellfish in the sea and rivers.

  11. Episode. 1033. Life in Colonial Times, Serving of Meals.

    This episode lays out the procedures of serving of meals, etiquette, accoutrements on the table and how all of this changed from the mid-16th - through the early twentieth century.

  12. Episode. 1032. Life in Colonial Times, The Kitchen Fireside.

    This episode describes colonial; hearths, cooking utensils, heating and an early romance of where the center of colonial life existed in the home’s interior.

  13. Episode. 1031. Life in Colonial Times, Colonial Lighting.

    From various forms of candle making materials, natural scents such as the Bayberry bush to accent candles, to oil and tallow, to various types of fire starters, night light in colonial times took time and skill to produce and was expensive.

  14. Episode. 1030. Life in Colonial Times, Home Life. Part 2.

    Roof-lines and interior decorations proceed as the century went on.

  15. Episode. 1029. Life in Colonial Times, Home Life, Part 1.

    From living in dug-out caves to thatched roof houses, early colonial settlers brought skill sets and certain styles from the home-lands.

  16. Episode. 1028. Age of Enlightenment, Conclusion.

    The enlightenment solidified sound scientific methodology, peace between religions, separation between church and state, and a number of women who broke away from their domestic duties.

  17. Episode. 1027. Age of Enlightenment, Mary Somerville.

    Somerville claimed out of traditional domestic roles in England, studying scientific experimentation she was the first woman accepted into the Royal Society.

  18. Episode. 1026. Age of Enlightenment,Voltaire.

    Society had begun to realize that they had the capacity to engage in choices regarding the state and to enjoy personal liberties, which took the form philosophies of the enlightenment.

  19. Episode. 1025. Age of Enlightenment, The American Revolution.

    The American Enlightenment farther supported the concept of the country as a republic.

  20. Episode. 1024. Age of Enlightenment, Thomas Paine.

    Paine created a pamphlet Common Sense which helped nudge the colonists toward the war of independence. He also warned later of religious fanaticism, claiming its basis , the Bible, was a book of many lies, wickedness blasphemy.

  21. Episode. 1023. Age of Enlightenment, The Boston Tea Party.

    The Tea Party caused Britain to counter with the Intolerable acts, laws designed to to hurt Massachusetts self governance and freedoms.

  22. Episode. 1022. Age of Enlightenment, Adam Smith.

    Adam Smiths books and political relationships urged Europe into the modern capitalist era, based on the belief that independent businesses would provide not only for themselves but also for the rest of the population.

  23. Episode. 1021. Age of Enlightenment, David Hume.

    Religion in Scotland and England were undergoing massive changes while Hume concentrated on the great problems of the world and society. The society in which he lived was crumbling right around him.

  24. Episode. 1020. Age of Enlightenment, Benjamin Franklin.

    Franklin taking much witnessed from other members of his family who were trades people, garnered a tenacious work ethic. He put this to use as a printer, made a considerable amount of wealth but never lost site of his ever increasing sense to help community, particularly the poor.

  25. Episode. 1019. Age of Enlightenment, Social Reforms and Workhouses.

    For Britains and other European countries whose segment of poverty who were down and out, a program of workhouses and social safety-net were set up in this early year of 1700.

  26. Episode. 1018. Age of Enlightenment, Conflict in The Royal Society

    A conflict arose in the Royal Society of London between Issac Newton and Robert Hooke over research done over the physics of light.

  27. Episode. 1017. Age of Enlightenment, Marie du Moulin.

    Marie du Moulin was a Dutch writer and scholar whose participation in the Republic of Letters is indicative of a much larger circle of professional and intellectual women.

  28. Episode. 1016. Age of Enlightenment. The Royal Society Of London.

    John Wallis began the formation of the Royal Society of London, this has become the oldest national scientific organization in the world, their motto is , “take nobody’s word for it”.

  29. Episode. 1015. Age of Enlightenment, Englands Civil War.

    Constitutionally, the outcome of the English Civil War was that the future monarchs were not allowed to govern without the express consent of Parliament.

  30. Episode. 1014. Age of Enlightenment, Isaac Newton.

    Newton was most noted for his book, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, thus laying three important principles that laid out principles of modern Physics.

  31. Episode. 1013. Age of Enlightenment, John Locke.

    John Locke was known as the father of liberalism. His most inspiring treatises were political separation of executive powers,, legislative, and the judiciary.

  32. Episode. 1012. Age of Enlightenment, Robert Boyle.

    Boyle joined the Hartlib club, keeping him safe from religious and political persecution. His letter writing helped keep scientists up to date on discovery’s and methodologies.

  33. Episode. 1011. Age of Enlightenment, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia.

    The Princess of Bohemias series of intelligent letters remained an inspiration to the women of the enlightenment and beyond, and they helped contribute to to the proof t,hat females were much more than the roles they have been assigned in history.

  34. Episode. 1010. The Industrial Revolution, Sparks of a New Revolution. Part 2.

    Unlike the first phase of industrial revolution managed, this time progress wasn’t just centered in one country. Industrialization was now being made by engineers,scientists and inventors of various nationalities, resulting in an international event. The wheel of innovation was set in motion and...

  35. Episode. 1009. The Industrial Revolution, Sparks of a new Revolution . Part. 1.

    By the First World War the third phase of the industrial revolution managed to reshape the world. New production methods, new power sources and fuels were discovered. Industrialization was widening and advances n manufacturing and technology were being made.

  36. Episode. 1008. The Age Of Enlightenment, Anna Maria Van Sherman.

    Anna Maria Van Sherman was the first woman to go to a University in the 17th century.

  37. Episode. 1007. The Grand Tour,Drawbacks and Downsides.

    One major dilemma was the moving of Wealth from Britain to the grand tour countries, also some people would go bankrupt.

  38. Episode. 1006. The Grand Tour, Women on Tour.

    Most of the women touring were tainted by scandal. Female grand tourists were cut from a different cloth.

  39. Episode. 1005. The Grand Tour, The English Country House.

    The grand tour was also utilized by architects, potential wealthy home builders, and owners of large tracks of land to glean architectural ideas for building their own English Country House.

  40. Episode. 1004. Grand Tour, Artists and Patronage.

    Inspiring and established artists used their version of the grand tour to copy the antiquarian master paintings. These were not wealthy enough to be part of the actual grand tour: they were hangers on, either fighting for scraps doled out by the wealthier visitors, making contacts that would be...

  41. Episode. 1003. Spains Drastically Declining Population.

    Of recent years Spain has been loosing 3-6 percent of its population, almost 3,500. Towns and villages have become abandoned since the late 70’s.

  42. Episode. 1002. The Grand Tour, Souvenir Hunters.

    World travelers spawned an entire industry of fakes being produced and souvenirs. At times grand tourers after returning home, found an increased social status and or political positions.

  43. Episode. 1001. The Grand Tour, From The Great Collectors.

    All the big names of tour artifact hunters whom helped start the world’s first public museum, with many of them starting museums in their homes.

  44. Episode. 1000. Delftware, Women And The Blue And White Art Form.

    Dutch Delftware, its vases, plates, bowels and figures, have been touched by women for over 3 centuries, from shop daughters to potters widows to queens and American heiresses. The women who made, collected, and preserved them were all responding to unique opportunities, challenges and pivotal...

  45. Episode. 999. Delftware, And The “MET” Wives That Helped Develop Museums. Part. 2

    The contributions of women continued, creating parks, The Van Cortlandt House Museum, windmill China, Old Dutch Cleanser, Dutch Boy paints, and Dutch-Colonial architecture just to name a few.

  46. Episode. 998. Delftware, and The “MET” Wives That Helped Develop Museums. Part1.

    Alice Claypoole Gwynn and other prominent NYC women set forth the Cooper Hewitt and Metropolitan Museums in motion.

  47. Episode. 997. The Grand Tour.

    An introduction to tours of this type, taking a contemporary of highlights in France and Italy.

  48. Episode. 996. Contributing Women in Art and Culture Leadership in The Late 19th Century. Part 2.

    Women create the National Society of The Colonial Dames Of America saving structures like the Mount Vernon Estate and other historic dwellings. These were some of the first house museums the public could walk through.

  49. Episode. 995. Delftware, Contributing Women in Art And Leadership in The Late 19th Century. Part1.

    Alice Morse Earle and Elizabeth Duane Gillespie were major contributors to women in the arts an sciences.

  50. Episode. 994. A fever Pitch of China Ware Begins In The 18th Century.

    Chinaware collecting wasn’t just about the object; it was about cultural exchange, adventure and discovery. Women acted as scholars , merchants, collectors and storytellers, driven by passion and curiosity.

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Conservation scholar Gregg Perry will lead us back into time on a journey of restoring and conserving 17th -19th century period architecture furnishings and timepieces.

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