The Echo Dispatch: Boarding House Geometry (8/21/13)
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40:03– Disappearance of boarding houses, history of boarding houses, what it may have been like, loss of community, difference between boarding house and apartment, history of apartments, New York Public Library’s online exhibit on apartments: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/?col_id=151 ideas on how to run a boarding house, Boarding House Geometry by Stephen Leacock, modern day places, the John Tyler house, plight of veterans, turning an old mansion, call for stories on boarding houses.
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Geoff Sink – more info at onsug.com
Released August 2013 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.
