Melissa and Matt visit Boston and Salem for a concert but end up in a Boghouse inspired whirlwind tour of lesser known Revolutionary War locations.
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The development and history of 103 Callowhill Street, Philadelphia.
Monday, December 23, 2019
Thursday, November 14, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 23: Annapolis, Kent Island, and Benjamin Mifflin
The first Boghouse travel show, in which Matt and Melissa accidentally journey to historical destinations in Maryland.
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Thursday, October 17, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 22: Jed Levin Interview, pt 2
The second half of Matt and Melissa's interview with veteran archaeologist Jed Levin about the president's house dig in Philadelphia.
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Thursday, October 3, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 21: Another conversation with a real archaeologist, pt 1
Matt and Melissa interview veteran archaeologist Jed Levin about his work on the slave quarters at the president's house in Philadelphia.
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Friday, September 6, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 20: New Developments
Melissa goes full archaeologist at Dish Camp, Matt goes to an art gala in the World Trade Center.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 19: Q and A
Melissa and Matt answer listener questions.
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Friday, May 17, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 18: The Privy Diggers (part 2)
Matt and Melissa continue their conversation with Tom and Michael, then share a first-hand privy digging experience.
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Monday, May 6, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 17: The Privy Diggers (part 1)
Michael Frechette and Tom Salvatore have a fireside chat with Matt and Melissa Dunphy.
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Monday, April 29, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 16: Construction with Larry
Contractor Larry Alice joins Matt and Melissa to chat about post-privy-digging construction.
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Sunday, April 21, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 15: Intermission
When a planned interview falls through, Matt and Melissa give a quick State of the Podcast.
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Sunday, April 14, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 14: Conversation with a real archaeologist
Historical archaeologist and materials specialist Debbie Miller talks about her experience in the field.
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Sunday, April 7, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 13: Murder and Mayhem in the Messuages
Stories of true crime in 19th century Philadelphia's Tenderloin district.
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The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 12: Supplement to Antoine Probst
A dramatic reading of The Life, Confession, and Atrocious Crimes of Antoine Probst.
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Monday, April 1, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 11: The Atrocious Crimes of Antoine Probst
Antoine Probst, America's first true crime media sensation, drank lager right under I-95 after committing mass murder.
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Monday, March 25, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 10: Quakers and Slavery
As Daniel Williams sells 103 Callowhill Street, it becomes apparent he is behind the curve on Quaker attitudes towards slavery.
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Monday, March 18, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 9: War and Ennion
Continuing the story of Daniel Williams and his son Ennion during the Revolutionary War.
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Monday, March 11, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 8: Introducing Daniel Williams
Daniel Williams: baker, merchant, man about town, and owner of 103 Callowhill Street.
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Monday, February 25, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 7: Mifflin and Carpenter
Exploring the quirks of two colonials who first developed 103 Callowhill Street.
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Monday, February 18, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 6: Hannah Callowhill
The Boghouse becomes a history podcast: first subject, Hannah Callowhill Penn.
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Sunday, February 10, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 5: Ceramics in America
Melissa and Matt get a visit from experts in the field of ceramics, and learn more about what they've found.
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Sunday, February 3, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 4: Dig
Melissa and Matt unearth old pottery, and make a strong effort to stop unearthing old pottery.
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Saturday, February 2, 2019
Podcasting is the new blogging
Four years ago, Melissa created a blog entry on this page introducing the world to our latest project: a theater with an apartment above it. Even as she clicked "publish", it was with the understanding that this wasn't an effort to make a big splash - we were simply leaning on a familiar, easy-to-use tool to document as much as we could as we crash landed next to the Delaware waterfront. In between doing all the things we were doing, Melissa pushed beyond exhaustion to assemble photographs and stories about a story that seemed to grow exponentially every time turned through to each new chapter. But blogs and websites had, by 2015, been largely replaced by the new walled gardens of Social Media. But while these new age advertising giants masqueraded as communities, with record engagement across broad demographic spreads, people were also embracing a Frankenstein of Web 1.0 technologies like RSS and MP3, brewed together and filtered onto our handheld always-on internet comm devices: podcasts.
Serial, arguably the series that truly introduced podcasting to the mainstream, was released the year before we started this blog. In the time since, several professional podcasting networks have self-assembled to assimilate this last vestige of the old internet, racing to build collections of content, or as an old co-worker at the York Newspaper Company once described it, "the stuff that goes around the ads." Those same media consumption devices could just as easily be utilized as media creation devices, and the rush was on to get a couple of friends to get together at the dining room table and talk in the general direction of a Macbook, in the hopes that sweet, sweet Squarespace and Caspar affiliate cash would play pilot to the Patreon flame. Celebrities and public radio defectors joined in, industry veterans turned their skills towards a new frontier, and with our cultural tacit acceptance of mobile surveillance, trackable advertising attribution is waking up the streaming music giants from their gluttonous sleep, with rumors of Spotify seeking to acquire Gimlet, the podcasting landscape is about to shift dramatically.
In the first weeks of this year, Melissa and I recorded three episodes of an idea she'd been talking about for a while now: a podcast about our adventures at the Hannah Callowhill Stage. We sat down and outlined a high level overview of exactly what it is we've been up to over the last five years, designated Sunday as Podcast Day, and on January 27th, released the beginnings of the story into the wild. The reaction has been humbling, and we haven't even got to the really good parts of the story yet. I don't think we're trying to catch the podcast wave, but at the rate of growth we're seeing, I'm not sure we have much choice in the matter.
Our podcast is called The Boghouse - an old euphemism for a toilet, or outhouse, because a couple of privies that pre-date America changed our lives. We've had hundreds of conversations with friends, family, and strangers about how that came to be and about what's happened since, and we hope this podcast will provide a better record of that, and as a side effect, save our voices, so that instead of monopolizing people's times at parties, we can say, "Oh yeah, we've got a podcast all about it, check out The Boghouse on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play Music."
So check it out. If you like what you hear, do that thing all the podcasts tell you to do - rate us, like us, subscribe. We are planning to record on a weekly basis, and this is a finite series that follows a (somewhat non-linear) story arc, so you'll want to listen in order, starting with the first episode.
Serial, arguably the series that truly introduced podcasting to the mainstream, was released the year before we started this blog. In the time since, several professional podcasting networks have self-assembled to assimilate this last vestige of the old internet, racing to build collections of content, or as an old co-worker at the York Newspaper Company once described it, "the stuff that goes around the ads." Those same media consumption devices could just as easily be utilized as media creation devices, and the rush was on to get a couple of friends to get together at the dining room table and talk in the general direction of a Macbook, in the hopes that sweet, sweet Squarespace and Caspar affiliate cash would play pilot to the Patreon flame. Celebrities and public radio defectors joined in, industry veterans turned their skills towards a new frontier, and with our cultural tacit acceptance of mobile surveillance, trackable advertising attribution is waking up the streaming music giants from their gluttonous sleep, with rumors of Spotify seeking to acquire Gimlet, the podcasting landscape is about to shift dramatically.
In the first weeks of this year, Melissa and I recorded three episodes of an idea she'd been talking about for a while now: a podcast about our adventures at the Hannah Callowhill Stage. We sat down and outlined a high level overview of exactly what it is we've been up to over the last five years, designated Sunday as Podcast Day, and on January 27th, released the beginnings of the story into the wild. The reaction has been humbling, and we haven't even got to the really good parts of the story yet. I don't think we're trying to catch the podcast wave, but at the rate of growth we're seeing, I'm not sure we have much choice in the matter.
So check it out. If you like what you hear, do that thing all the podcasts tell you to do - rate us, like us, subscribe. We are planning to record on a weekly basis, and this is a finite series that follows a (somewhat non-linear) story arc, so you'll want to listen in order, starting with the first episode.
Sunday, January 27, 2019
The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 2: Money
Melissa and Matt are frustrated by architects and banks. Will they prevail?
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The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 1: Introduction
Melissa and Matt consider investing in a live/work space and discover a real estate listing for a theater with a sordid past.
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The Boghouse Podcast, Episode 3: Demolition
Melissa and Matt tear down walls and make surprising discoveries.
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