Museums in Strange Places
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Trailer: We the Museum
I always meant to get back into doing Museum in Strange Places episodes, but producing professionally as Better Lemon Creative Audio and the pandemic got in the way. Now, I'm finally back …
BONUS: The Vagina Museum Podcast Trailer
One of the many projects I've been working on through my new production company (
BONUS: London is Ok I Guess
[A pilot for a new show I developed about living in London. I'm really proud of how it turned out, but I just don't have the time to make more episodes, so it's going to live here on the …
The (Pop-Up) Anti-Trump Museum of Atlantic City
Donald J. Trump has been active in business and media for fifty years, but his scandal-ridden presidency has overshadowed most of his history. Levi Fox's
Poe Belongs to Baltimore, Baltimore to Poe
He’s the master of macabre, the man who created mystery fiction, the face on the socks and beer bottles of everyday Baltimoreans. He’s Edgar Allan Poe, and he belongs to Baltimore. Join me …
Slavery in Maryland: Facing Our Whole History at Sotterley Plantation
So much of Maryland was built on the back of enslaved Africans, yet it’s easy to avoid confronting the history of slavery in Maryland’s former plantation country. Historic Sotterley is …
Museum on Main Street: A Love Letter to Small-Town America (02/09)
About half of all museums in the US are in small towns in rural America. Each of these museums holds stories and objects that are worth preserving …
Baltimore’s Jewish Roots ft. Harry Houdini (S02/E08)
What do Baltimore, Russian Jews, the third oldest synagogue in America, Eastern European Catholics, seances, and Harry Houdini have in common? You’ll …
Why We Work: Improving the Way Museums Work at The Baltimore Museum of Industry (S02/E07)
S02/E07: Located in a waterfront 1860s oyster cannery in the Baltimore Harbor, The Baltimore Museum of Industry is trying to inspire and engage their visitors around the concept of work by …
A Secular Gathering Place: The Sandy Spring Museum (S02/E06)
The Sandy Spring Museum describes itself as “community-activated.” They want to be a secular gathering places, where people of different backgrounds …
BONUS: 17th Century Ships are Like Classic Cars
BONUS content from Episode 5, "The Lost City: Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland."
Dr. Regina Faden and I head down to Historic St. Mary's City's Waterfront exhibit, where we board the …
BONUS: What We Can Learn From Dirt
BONUS content from Episode 5, "The Lost City: Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland."
A brief stop at the active dig site of Historic St. Mary's City's …
The Lost City: Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland (S02/E05)
In the early 17th century, 300 English settlers traveled to the new colony of Maryland in search of new opportunities and a place where they could …
BONUS: Baltimore's Ring of Fire
BONUS CONTENT from Episode 4, “Museum Time Machine: The Peale Center.” The Peale Center’s Nancy Proctor shows me the museum’s Ring of Fire, explains the phenomenon of skeuomorphism, and …
Museum Time Machine: The Peale Center (S02/E04)
There’s a time machine in downtown Baltimore on Holliday Street. A time machine that will take you back to the origin of public collections of art, …
Community Driven, Community-Led: The Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center (S02/E03)
Prince George’s County, Maryland is one of the wealthiest African American communities in the US, a suburban enclave of Black excellence just outside Washington, D.C. But it wasn’t always …
A Public Housing Utopia: The Greenbelt Museum (S02/E02)
Tucked among other Maryland suburbs outside Washington, D.C., the cute little town of Greenbelt has a surprisingly radical history. It was one of three “green towns” built under the New …
A Temple to Intuition and Art: The American Visionary Art Museum (S02/E01)
The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland is monument to outsider art, the creative spirit, and the search for truth. Step inside this glittering temple to intuition and …
Season 2: Museums of Maryland (TRAILER)
In each season of this podcast, I explore a different country, state, or region through its museums. In Season 1, I traveled around Iceland. For season two, I decided to explore my native …
The Shark Farm at Bjarnarhöfn (S01/E22)
Iceland has a lot of weird traditional foods, but nothing compares to fermented shark meat. The family at Bjarnarhöfn has been hunting and fermenting shark meat for nearly 400 years, …
The Art of Volcanoes (S01/E21)
What would it look like if Indiana Jones was into volcanoes and created a museum in a small Icelandic village? The
