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

Strange Place for a Steamboat

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

The Past and The Curious History Podcast for Kids

Kids & Family

4.52.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Virginia became a major attraction when it got stuck in a cornfield, which is a place a boat does not belong. Also, The Meachums escaped slavery, and educated hundreds of children in a school known as the Floating Freedom School. Their school in a steamboat was untouched by an unjust Missouri law while in the middle of the river.

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0:00.0

Mixelabin of the Past and the Curious has a new book available, that's me.

0:04.7

I see Lincoln's underpants as a book about famous people and their underwear, 16 chapters

0:09.8

on 16 people and their undies and lots of other stuff too, like the underwear hall of

0:14.2

fame, lots of laughing, lots of learning.

0:17.5

It's available wherever you get your books, and if you want it with a copy, please leave

0:21.2

a review, be sure to request it at your local library too, that will help.

0:25.5

This is an Indie Effort, I am IndieOperation.

0:30.0

Hello everybody, my name is Mixelabin and welcome to the Past and the Curious episode 77.

0:45.2

And hey, first things first, April 16th, I will be at WBUR's City Space in Boston as part

0:54.5

of the mega awesome super huge Wicked Fun Podcast Playdate.

0:58.7

On Saturday, circle round, tumble, and girl tales will be there.

1:02.1

On Sunday, me, the Past and the Curious, mystery recipe, and smash boom best will be there.

1:09.4

I'm going to be on at 10 o'clock and I'd love to see you and meet you if you're anywhere

1:13.6

near the area, but I also think that there might be digital tickets available, virtual

1:17.9

passes.

1:19.4

So you might want to look into that, I would love to talk to you from out there, I'm going

1:23.2

to tell some really great stories and sing a couple songs that I'm really excited about.

1:27.7

This episode is about steamboats, I've got an episode about a steamboat that bound up

1:32.8

where it didn't belong, and also an important story about some people who decided to work

1:38.9

outside of the law to do what they knew was right, and they used a steamboat to do it.

1:52.6

Boats belong in the water, corn belongs in the field.

1:56.8

Just not like some strange old-fashioned saying or anything, I just figured it's something

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