Episode 71: Houdini and Grandma Moses

The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families

The Past and The Curious History Podcast for Kids

Kids & Family

4.5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Harry Houdini almost quit and sold his tricks and secrets in 1899. It was good that he didn’t because in the 1900s he became a household name as the greatest escape artist in the world. It was a chance encounter that changed it all. Likewise, Anna Mary Moses was 78 years old when her life changed and set her on a path to becoming one of the most famous painters in America. During her 80s and 90s she created art that wound up in hundreds of thousands of homes!

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0:45.4	Hello, I'm not sure if you know this, but you are listening to the past and the curious.
0:57.5	Oh, my name is Mick Sullivan, and I'd like to welcome you to Episode 71.
1:03.9	This episode features Harry Houdini, but it's not Harry Houdini who you think, I mean it's
1:09.6	the same Harry Houdini, but it's a Harry Houdini very early in his life, and he wants to
1:14.4	quit.
1:15.4	He's just done.
1:17.4	Luckily, he did not.
1:19.2	The other story is about a woman who is known now as Grandma Moses.
1:25.1	Grandma Moses was a painter, a very famous painter in her day.
1:28.3	She lived in the early part, or she worked, created most of her art in the early part
1:33.0	of the 1900s, but she was actually born during the Civil War, actually, right before the
1:37.8	Civil War.
1:39.4	And her professional career started at the age of 78, and it went on for like 25 years
1:48.8	after that, which is amazing.
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