Slumberland

Thomas is shocked. He's actually meeting Oblivia Newton-Baum. But there's no time for small talk. Oblivia holds a thick file of research she needs to contribute to the Oral History Project, even if it means spilling some details from her own troubled past.

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Category:Podcast -- posted at: 2:45pm EDT

Hear an old recording of Alva Pierce reading the 1897 holiday classic "Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus."

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"Sleigh Ride Party / Jingle Bells" by the Edison Male Quartette, recorded 1898 and provided by the Dawn of Sound website.

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Category:Podcast -- posted at: 9:56pm EDT

Thomas meets a young town resident, Dae'Yana. The local poetry scene is up for discussion again.

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Category:Podcast -- posted at: 9:03am EDT

Day after day Thomas remembers something while he's taking a shower. But by the time he's done showering, he completely forgets it. Maybe a sound recorder can help.

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Category:Podcast -- posted at: 7:47am EDT

Someone -- or something -- has slept for decades in a closet inside the community dome. Along comes Thomas Edward M, ready to make a new friend.

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Category:Podcast -- posted at: 8:38am EDT

Thomas receives a very large postcard from Chyrsanthemum Jones.

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Chrystanthemum Jones performed by Elsie Escobar.
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Category:Podcast -- posted at: 1:11am EDT

Beckett Pierce re-examines the 1876 poem "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll. She wonders if some clues to explain Omar Evanston's disappearance may be found in the text.

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Category:Podcast -- posted at: 5:54pm EDT

The tale of Badamo Del Becha on the Slumberland beach in the 1930s gets told again. This time from the very singular perspective of Delfina Del Becha.

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Category:Podcast -- posted at: 11:55pm EDT

Hear the final events leading to the origin of the Sandy Specter legend. Alva Pierce Jr tells the tale concerning Badamo Del Becha, two of his men and their stormy encounter with young Coyote in the 1930s.

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Category:Podcast -- posted at: 7:27pm EDT

Alva Two (Alva Pierce, Junior) arrives on the beach to pick up the Badamo Del Becha / Sandy Specter legend, where his old friend Davis left off the tale. The fates of Bryce and Carlsbad, the missing Suffer Ink bottles and more about Badamo's history are all revealed.

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Category:Podcast -- posted at: 11:01am EDT

Davis X. Mackinaw relates tales of the town's ghost legend, a malevolent spirit known as the Sandy Specter.

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Category:Podcast -- posted at: 8:57am EDT

Thomas arrives at an isolated corner of Slumberland Island where Davis X. Mackinaw sweeps the beach with a special kind of metal detector. Davis records stories from when he was a boy and he and his friends were members of the Slumberland Scouts.

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Category:Podcast -- posted at: 9:02pm EDT

Thomas returns to the "Taos House" atop Slumberland's largest hill, where Jeepers MacGeepers holds his next instructions. A couple of other familiar voices also put in appearances.

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Category:Podcast -- posted at: 1:12am EDT

Thomas gets sidetracked into meeting Maxima McGillicutty, heiress socialite and submersible pilot. Maxima's family has a long and strange history intertwined with Slumberland Island.

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Category:Podcast -- posted at: 3:03pm EDT

When last was heard about Oskar, he called to complain about a cursed wooden hand puppet that refused to let go of his arm. Now unconscious, and under house arrest, Oskar's friends enlist the help of Thomas Edward M.

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Category:Podcast -- posted at: 12:18am EDT

The Oral History session with town electrician Merlin Jebb. It's a fish tale partly told by song. Also includes a tour of Slumberland's substation. There's an ever-present hum in the building that annoys a sound man like Thomas Edward M. Also a mysterious green glowing power source, left running by the island's long-vanished resident genius, Stig Gorgonsdottir. His brother Sigmund once visited Slumberland and helped build the Community Dome. "Siggy" also left behind some data tapes.

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Category:Podcast -- posted at: 3:37pm EDT

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