These Mysterious Hills

Wasn’t she nervous, folks asked - being the first woman to speak at Williams College?

The locals asking her likely did not know that 9 years earlier she had been the first woman in history to address the multitudes in Sultanahmet Square, in that ancient city of Constantinople; that men by the tens of thousands had roared applause at her words - or how they fallen to their knees, tears on their cheeks, pledging themselves to the Turkish revolution as she spoke.

More on Halide Edib Adivar's remarkable stay in the Berkshires in August of 1928 available now for subscribers! Link in comments below-->

The first ever busts directly targeted Chinese-American immigrants. Link to full story in comments-->

A quick recommendation guide to some great history and regional interest pages I follow. Now more than ever it's crucial to support real, reliable, vetted information from real humans checking their facts!
Lost New England
New England Historical Society
Western Mass Hilltown Hikers
Herman Melville's Arrowhead [Berkshire Historical Society]
Historian of the Strange,
Fake History Hunter,
Jake Wynn - Public Historian,
Gravestones of New England,
Southwick Time Machine,
Coffee with a Colonial

Follow, subscribe, sign up for their mailing lists, bookmark their websites - do whatever you can to get in the pipeline because credible content-producers are being drowned out and systematically suppressed by algorithms. In a couple years, probably less, 90% of the historical and local curiosity posts you see in your Facebook feed will be AI slop. The age of the orc has come to social media.

Lol

Conspiratorial thinking, according to researchers, is really about coping. Learning to cope with uncertainty, with the injustices of the world, and with the chaos and madness that people desperately seek.

Having dudes write 95% of the history for centuries clearly left us with a disproportionate amount of information about wars. But also, on a less ominous level, a disproportionate amount of info on trains.

Aug 31 is the last day to subscribe if you want to attend our fall group event! Subscribe on Patreon or Substack now [links in comments]

When I'm asked to appear in documentaries like this one, I ask 2 key questions:

Will they distort my interview quotes to have me say the opposite of what I said?

Are they open-minded to non-paranormal interpretations of events?

Half the time these 2 simple questions get me off the hook entirely, as they did in this case