Episodes

July 28, 2020Episodes

Ep 17: Silent March

To the beat of muffled drums, 10,000 black men, women, and children marched down 5th Avenue in New York City on July 28, 1917. Their march was in protest of […]
May 25, 2020Episodes

Ep 16: Spectre

Ghost towns keep their stories alive, we can wander through its ruins and imagine life as it once was. But to see one that still has a faint pulse, which […]
May 13, 2020Episodes

Ep 15: Differing Standards

There was a time when North America lived by the sun. We rose and set with its natural rhythms. This was when life was contained within a few miles. When […]
April 28, 2020Episodes

Episode 14: My Wife’s Lovers

No one remembers Carl Kahler for his portraits of blue-ribbon horses or of burning sunset landscapes or even of his prize-winning classical study “Caesar’s Death.” The San Francisco Chronicle wrote […]
April 15, 2020Episodes

Ep 13: Stranded

If only you could have seen it, opening day back in March 1920. When thousands of people lined up around this block, waiting just to get a seat. The Strand’s […]
April 12, 2020Episodes

Your stories from COVID-19

Hey Artifacts friends! I’m working on an episode for my history podcast about COVID-19 and I’d like this one to be more of a community project with your voices. So, […]
April 1, 2020Episodes

Ep 12: Breath of Fresh Air

We’re going back to a time when air was toxic and the only visible organism that inhabited this world were Stromatolites whose exhalations would be their undoing and our greatest […]
March 18, 2020Episodes

Episode 11: Unnatural Selection

Within the 24 square miles of the Seneca Army Depot exists the leftover crumbling structures and ecosystem created back in 1941. This episode what written and hosted by Natalie Shoemaker. […]
March 10, 2020Episodes, Extra

Extra: Dead Horse Bay

Everyone who visits Dead Horse Bay has a different experience. Discarded things ebb with the tides–what it brings up, peels back, and pushes up the shore. Welcome to this special […]
March 3, 2020Episodes

Episode 10: Influencer Marketing

She traveled the road of anthracite without worry that cinders would ashen the brilliance of her white dress. But the rails would eventually fade… as would any memory of her: […]