Club Member's Bonus Material: Annie Londonderry, Double Standards, Outlaws, Bicycles, and the Obligatory Parody (Drinking) Song
Episode notes, travel links, a reading list and the transcript for the episode Annie Londonderry: The Woman who (sort of ) Bicycled around the World
Annie Londonderry: Club Member’s Bonus
In this edition
Moms and Dads or The Explicit Double Standard about EWKS (Explorers with Kids)
The wildest true-crime crossover of 1895
Retracing Annie’s wheel tracks: Annie’s home in Boston’s West End, cycling from Boston to New York and San Francisco to Los Angeles
Reading and viewing list: books, a documentary, stage adaptations, a New York Times obituary 72 years late, and a website maintained by the man who started it all
Obligatory musical parody: “Oh, Annie!” A turn-of-the-century drinking song about the exploits of Boston’s most famous liar
Coming Thursday: Our interview with Peter Zheutlin, Annie’s great-grandnephew and the reason we know anything about Annie
Full episode transcript
Research Notes
Welcome fellow travelers, members of the By Their Own Compass Club, especially those prone to exaggerating a little (or a lot) about where they spent their holidays. This is our special bonus companion post to last week’s episode on Annie Londonderry. As always, we try to cram in everything we couldn’t cram into the podcast, everything we wish we had time to talk about in more detail, and a whole section cut after Sarah sent Jeremiah a message that said: “Honestly, it’s an episode about a bicycling woman from Boston, do we really need the 10-minute history of Old West Gunfighters?”
There’s also a parody song. Because we just can’t help ourselves and we have it on good authority that at least TWO listeners really like them. Which is all the validation we need to keep doing them.
But before we get to 19th-century Boston Beer Hall songs about Annie and her adventures, let’s get the serious stuff out of the way.
