One Hour in the Past – Museum Chat: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to One Hour in the Past, a podcast series presented by the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre.
Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places!
This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathleen Powell, Supervisor of Historical Services and Curator, both from the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre, have challenged each other to explore the weird and wonderful places that one hour of research on a topic will take them. Join them as they share their findings!
New this Season
Adrian really has no idea what’s going on. Kathleen has selected the topics for research this season and only shares the next topic with Adrian a day or so before they record. The script too (including the famous dictionary definition) is only handed to Adrian just before they record.
Any guesses as to what theme links the topics? Keep listening through season 7 of One Hour in the Past to find out.
706 Machine Guns
On this episode of One Hour in the Past, Kathleen and Adrian explore the scientifically complicated history of the machine gun and its remarkable and terrible impact in 19th and 20th century warfare. Also: it’s the season finale and the mystery theme linking all of this season’s episodes is revealed!
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Welcome to One Hour in the Past, a podcast series presented by the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre.
Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places!
This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathleen Powell, Supervisor of Historical Services and Curator, both from the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre, have challenged each other to explore the weird and wonderful places that one hour of research on a topic will take them. Join them as they share their findings!
New this Season
Adrian really has no idea what’s going on. Kathleen has selected the topics for research this season and only shares the next topic with Adrian a day or so before they record. The script too (including the famous dictionary definition) is only handed to Adrian just before they record.
Any guesses as to what theme links the topics? Keep listening through season 7 of One Hour in the Past to find out.
703 Sewing Machines
On this episode of One Hour in the Past, Kathleen and Adrian explore the local history of sewing machine manufacturing, a patent war, and the pivotal role of the lock stitch!
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Footnotes
1 – Abbott’s Noiseless Sewing Machine, c. 1870.
2 – How does a modern sewing machine work?
3 – How to use a foot treadle sewing machine.
Welcome to One Hour in the Past, a podcast series presented by the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre.
Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places!
This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathleen Powell, Supervisor of Historical Services and Curator, both from the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre, have challenged each other to explore the weird and wonderful places that one hour of research on a topic will take them. Join them as they share their findings!
New this Season
Adrian really has no idea what’s going on. Kathleen has selected the topics for research this season and only shares the next topic with Adrian a day or so before they record. The script too (including the famous dictionary definition) is only handed to Adrian just before they record.
Any guesses as to what theme links the topics? Keep listening through season 7 of One Hour in the Past to find out.
E704 Plastics
They said they weren’t a science podcast, but Kathleen and Adrian are back with some more fascinating science-based historical research into the history of plastics. Specially on this episode: how not to pronounce “phthalate.”
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Footnotes
1 – How to pronounce phthalate.
2 – “YOU ARE A TOY!”
3 – Mr. Burn’s vulcanized tires.
4 – Bakelite Museum
https://www.bakelitemuseum.net
5 – Canadian Conservation Institute
Canadian Conservation Institute – Canada.ca
Welcome to One Hour in the Past, a podcast series presented by the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre.
Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places!
This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathleen Powell, Supervisor of Historical Services and Curator, both from the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre, have challenged each other to explore the weird and wonderful places that one hour of research on a topic will take them. Join them as they share their findings!
New this Season
Adrian really has no idea what’s going on. Kathleen has selected the topics for research this season and only shares the next topic with Adrian a day or so before they record. The script too (including the famous dictionary definition) is only handed to Adrian just before they record.
Any guesses as to what theme links the topics? Keep listening through season 7 of One Hour in the Past to find out.
702 Gyroscopes
On this episode of One Hour in the Past, Kathleen and Adrian try to muster all their brainpower to tackle the interesting yet complex history (and functions) of the gyroscope. Science!
Footnotes
1 – Sperry Marine.
2 – Pearson Air Museum and Lt. Alexander Pearson
Welcome to One Hour in the Past, a podcast series presented by the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre.
Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places!
This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathleen Powell, Supervisor of Historical Services and Curator, both from the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre, have challenged each other to explore the weird and wonderful places that one hour of research on a topic will take them. Join them as they share their findings!
New this Season
Adrian really has no idea what’s going on. Kathleen has selected the topics for research this season and only shares the next topic with Adrian a day or so before they record. The script too (including the famous dictionary definition) is only handed to Adrian just before they record.
Any guesses as to what theme links the topics? Keep listening through season 7 of One Hour in the Past to find out.
701 Paperclips
On this episode of One Hour in the Past, Kathleen and Adrian explore the history of paperclips, with a special guest appearance by Clippy!
One Hour in the Past
Catch up on other episodes of One Hour in the Past.
Footnotes
1 – Clippy
2 – The Perfection of the Paperclip by Sarah Goldsmith.
3 – Kipling, Saskatchewan: home to the world’s largest paperclip.
4 – The Early Office Museum
5 – Operation Paperclip
6 – AI and the Paperclip Problem
Welcome to One Hour in the Past, a podcast series presented by the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre.
Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places!
This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathleen Powell, Supervisor of Historical Services and Curator, both from the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre, have challenged each other to explore the weird and wonderful places that one hour of research on a topic will take them. Join them as they share their findings!
Murder Mysteries
On today’s episode of One Hour in the Past, Kathleen and Adrian take a deep dive into the world of literary murder mysteries, with lots of pop-culture pit stops along the way. Join us for a fascinating discussion on topics from the Queen of Mystery to board games and local murder mysteries.
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Footnotes
1 – Super Cut of Columbo saying “just one more thing”
2 – Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie
British writer of crime and detective fiction, Dame Agatha Christie (1891 – 1976). (Photo by Walter Bird/Getty Images)
Welcome to One Hour in the Past, a podcast series presented by the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre.
Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places!
This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathleen Powell, Supervisor of Historical Services and Curator, both from the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre, have challenged each other to explore the weird and wonderful places that one hour of research on a topic will take them. Join them as they share their findings!
Self-Published Materials
This episode is perfect for the pamphleteers of the 18th century to the bloggers and YouTubers of today. Kathleen and Adrian explore the fascinating democratization of publishing with an episode about self-published materials.
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Footnotes
1 – The Colonial Advocate and William Lyon Mackenzie
2 – One of those early self-published, shaky-cam videos by Justin Bieber:
Welcome to One Hour in the Past, a podcast series presented by the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre.
Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places!
This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathleen Powell, Supervisor of Historical Services and Curator, both from the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre, have challenged each other to explore the weird and wonderful places that one hour of research on a topic will take them. Join them as they share their findings!
Science Fiction
Cue the trumpet fanfare from your favourite Hollywood sci-fi flick! On this week’s episode of One Hour in the Past, Kathleen and Adrian explore the fascinating pop-history of science fiction.
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Footnotes
1 – Media Death Cult
2 – The Big Three: Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke and Robert A Heinlein
3 – Frank Kelly Freas and his Sky Lab Patch
4 – Queen’s Album Cover for News of the World
5 – Holst vs John Williams
Welcome to One Hour in the Past, a podcast series presented by the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre.
Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places!
This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathleen Powell, Supervisor of Historical Services and Curator, both from the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre, have challenged each other to explore the weird and wonderful places that one hour of research on a topic will take them. Join them as they share their findings!
Newspapers
Extra, extra! On today’s episode of One Hour in the Past Kathleen and Adrian discuss the transitional and ever-changing nature of news media and the conservator’s nightmare: newsprint/paper!
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Footnotes
1 – Kathleen’s lecture on the 1917 Canadian Federal Election
2 – Kathleen mentioned checking out old newspapers at www.rarenewspapers.com
3 – Check out the Printing episode of One Hour in the Past.
4 – The Lincoln Paper Mill, c. 1960.
5 – Adrian’s current read (and source of the President McKinley Rabbit Hole): The President and the Assassin.
Welcome to One Hour in the Past, a podcast series presented by the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre.
Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places!
This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathleen Powell, Supervisor of Historical Services and Curator, both from the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre, have challenged each other to explore the weird and wonderful places that one hour of research on a topic will take them. Join them as they share their findings!
Superheroes and Comic Books
On today’s episode of One Hour in the Past, Kathleen and Adrian explore the moon-booted-history of Superheroes and Comic Books!
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Footnotes
1 – Historica Canada’s Heritage Minute about Joe Shuster.
2 – Spring-Heeled Jack (Batman with Moon Shoes)
3 – Moon Shoes (not Boots as Adrian remembers…)
4 – Action Comics #1 sold for 3.5 $Million…
Welcome to One Hour in the Past, a podcast series presented by the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre.
Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places!
This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathleen Powell, Supervisor of Historical Services and Curator, both from the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre, have challenged each other to explore the weird and wonderful places that one hour of research on a topic will take them. Join them as they share their findings!
Dictionaries
On today’s episode of One Hour in the Past Kathleen and Adrian discuss the simultaneously boring and cool history of dictionaries.
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Footnotes
1 – Oxford English Dictionary Reading Program
2 – Girls Globe Article regarding misogyny in the dictionary.
3 – Death of a Salesman. Guardian Article about the end of Door-to-Door sales.
4 – New York Times Article about the history of Auto-Correct.
5 – E502 Computers and Cellphones
On this final episode of One Hour in the Past's 5th season, Kathleen and Adrian take a deep dive - and one that is quite meta - into the history of Museums.
On this episode of One Hour in the Past, Kathleen and Adrian explore the history of extreme weather and whether a tornado can move a 110 ton dinosaur.
On this episode of One Hour in the Past, Kathleen and Adrian explore the history of elections, with some interesting rabbit-hole discussions of the Chief Electoral Officer and campaign posters.
On this episode of One Hour in the Past, Kathleen and Adrian explore the history of electric vehicles.
On this episode of One Hour in the Past, Kathleen and Adrian explore the history of computers and cell Phones and with just one hour for their research, end up in some very strange places.
On this episode of One Hour in the Past, Kathleen and Adrian explore the history of summer music festivals and their research led them to some unexpected places.
On this episode, we welcome Christine Girardi, Assistant Curator from the Niagara Falls History Museum to join us for a discussion on the history of taverns and restaurants.
On this episode, we welcome Michael Ashford from the Niagara Military Museum, located in Niagara Falls, Ontario to discuss one hour of research into military rations.
This season on One Hour in the Past, we are cooking up some food fun! Each episode this season takes down the research rabbit stew of food and food related topics! We will also be joined by some special guests from other museums around the Niagara region.
On this episode, we welcome Sarah Kaufman, the Managing Director/Curator of the Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum to discuss the timing of food consumption: mealtimes.
This season on One Hour in the Past, we are cooking up some food fun! Each episode this season takes down the research rabbit stew of food and food related topics! We will also be joined by some special guests from other museums around the Niagara region.
First up is a deeper dive into the history of spices! We are joined by Stephanie Powell-Baswick, Director / Curator of the Port Colborne Historical and Marine Museum who joined us as we explored the interesting and exotic history of those things that add flavour to our foods!
On the season 3 finale of One Hour in the Past, Kathleen and Adrian discuss their research into the mysterious and turbulent history of the FLQ and the October Crisis.
On this episode of One Hour in the Past, Kathleen and Adrian tackle the expansive history of the Fur Trade.
Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places!
On this episode of One Hour in the Past, Kathleen and Adrian explore the complicated histories of Canadian Prime Ministers.
On this episode of One Hour in the Past Kathleen and Adrian discuss their research into the secretive and mysterious Family Compact, which with their control of the governing Tory Party, concentrated power in their small group in Upper Canada between ~1800 and 1841.
Welcome to Season 3 of One Hour in the Past. In season one we explored a wide range of topics from the Arts and Crafts Movement to Thanksgiving. In season two we welcomed guests to join us for a trip down the rabbit hole as we researched topics like photography, sidewalks, and telephones. We’re taking this third season of the podcast down a bit of a different path. We’ll be diving a bit deeper into Canadian history by researching Prime Ministers, Maps and mapping, the Family Compact, the Fur Trade, the FLQ Crisis, and on today’s episode: the history of printing.