Podcast appearances and mentions of Stacy Horn

Stacy Horn grew up on Long Island, got a B.F.A. from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and a graduate degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. She was once a telecommunications analyst for the Mobil Corporation.She is a writer and just finished her seventh book titled The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood. The book is scheduled to be released in January of 2025.In 1990 she founded a New York City-based online service (aka social network) called Echo. Echo is an online community filled with people who log in everyday to talk about whatever—work, love, how hard life can be, and what's on TV (my favorite obsession). Horn stopped doing anything to promote Echo years ago, but is glad it's managed to survive. In between writing and research, TV, and the occasional movie or book, she loves talking to people on Echo.In her spare time, Horn sings with the Choral Society of Grace Church, and drums in a band called Manhattan Samba (but only very rarely these days). And, enjoys raising and spending time with her pet cats.Website stacyhorn.comBooks Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory. The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad. Waiting for My Cats to Die: a morbid memoir. Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing With Others. Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York. The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood. Cyberville: Clicks, Culture and the Creation of an Online Town.Help support California Haunts Radio by joining The Booo Crew. Please visit... patreon.com/CaliforniaHauntsRadio

Tonight, my special guest is best-selling author Stacy Horn here to discuss the man who was considered The Einstein of Parapsychology who studied the paranormal for the government.   “Author Stacy Horn dissects all the things that go bump in the night—ghosts, poltergeists, your ex-boyfriend Klaus—in [her] macabre book.”  —Marie Claire   A fascinating, eye-opening collection of “Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory,” Unbelievable by Stacy Horn explores science's remarkable first attempts to prove—or disprove—the existence of the paranormal. A featured contributor on the popular NPR program “All Things Considered,” Horn has been praised by Mary Roach, bestselling author of Spook, for her “awe-fueled curiosity [and] top-flight reporting skills.” Horn attacks a most controversial subject with Unbelievable—a book that will appeal to armchair scientists as well as fans of TV's Medium, The Ghost Whisperer, and Crossing Over with John Edward.Follow Our Other ShowsFollow UFO WitnessesFollow Crime Watch WeeklyFollow Paranormal FearsFollow Seven: Disturbing Chronicle StoriesJoin our Patreon for ad-free listening and more bonus content.Follow us on Instagram @mysteriousradioFollow us on TikTok mysteriousradioTikTok Follow us on Twitter @mysteriousradio Follow us on Pinterest pinterest.com/mysteriousradio Like us on Facebook Facebook.com/mysteriousradio

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When a young woman showed up at a boarding house in Manhattan, she said her name was Nellie Brown – but that was all she seemed to remember about herself. Soon, people became scared of her. Someone went to the police: "I want you to take her quietly." Stacy Horn's book is Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York. Travis Russ' upcoming play is The Gorgeous Nothings. To hear our special bonus episode about the other end of the island—and get ad-free listening, members-only merch and more—sign up for Criminal Plus. Criminal is going back on tour in February! We'll be telling brand new stories, live on stage. You can even get meet and greet tickets to come and say hi before the show. Tickets are on sale now at thisiscriminal.com/live. We can't wait to see you there! Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Author Stacy Horn joins Charlotte to talk about Blackwell Mental Facility. Her Book, "Damnation Island," documents the site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals. Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world ever seen, Blackwell's Island quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, “a lounging, listless madhouse.” Horn utilizes the voices of the island's inhabitants, as well as the period's officials, reformers, and journalists, including the celebrated Nellie Bly. Digging through city records, newspaper articles, and archival reports, Horn brings this forgotten history alive.Recorded live November 2021

Writer Stacy Horn tells us about a period in American history when the study of psychic phenomena and the paranormal was serious business at places like Stanford and Duke University. And she reveals the story of J.B. Rhine and Louisa Rhine, a scholarly couple who attempted to find the line where science ended and the unbelievable began. Horn is the author of  Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory.

Spring is officially in the air! Do you know what that means? Yes, it's definitely allergy season but even better...it's WEDDING SEASON! This is an episode that's near and dear to your host's heart because I'm actually getting married in the fall! And yes, like many eager brides, I had a Pinterest board made up even before my wonderful fiancé popped the big question. From flowers and invitations to food and the little suit I wanted our dog to wear down the aisle (lol), it highlighted everything I fantasized over for what our big day would look like. But also like many brides, I realized once I got into the details of a budget, I found that some of those pins were just that, a fantasy! This week we're joined by Stacy Horn, owner, creative director and wedding planning extraordinaire for Juniper and Lace Events, 4Front Regional Branch Manager, Abbie Hart, and 4Front team member and fellow 2022 bride, Katie Drzewiecki! There's so much to talk about when it comes to wedding budgets because no one's wedding is the same. From a quaint and intimate ceremony with just you and your S/O, to the "anything goes" mindset, there's a little something for everyone in this episode, including some handy financial tools that can help you achieve everything you're hoping for for your big day!

Author Stacy Horn stops by to talk about her new book, Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, which details... well.... Look at the title, people! To learn more about Stacy and her work, visit: www.stacyhorn.com. After the interview, Jeff and Jeremy talk about some recent events that fall quite outside of the normal.

SOR Dec. 14/21 - NYPD Cold Cases with Stacy Horn

SOR Dec. 14/21 - NYPD Cold Cases with Stacy Horn

Stacy Horn is an author and a researcher based out of New York. She's looked deeply into cold cases involving the New York Police Department and how they go through forensics and technologies to bring these cases back to life.

  In this special 200th episode, Patrick finally got to talk to UK parapsychologist, Dr. Callum E. Cooper. Topics include Parapsychology as a study and a career, Dr. Cooper's research and book on Telephone Calls from the Dead, three must-read books, bereavement and recovery, clearing up misinformation on the discovery of EVP, inducing After Death Communication, and the truth about the “Estes Method.” Plus the second installment of the return of Tim Prasil's Spectral Edition. Visit BigSeance.com/200 for more info.   Other Listening Options Direct Download Link   In this episode: Episode Teaser :00 Intro 1:49 It's the 200th episode, and we're also approaching the 10-year anniversary of BigSeance.com! 2:30 Dr. Callum E. Cooper's Bio 3:17 Callum is such a kind gentleman! 5:25 Dr. Cooper's Telephone Calls from the Dead and the work of Raymond Bayless and D. Scott Rogo. 7:11 Some background on Patrick's spiritual shift that began around twelve years ago around the time he discovered Callum's book, Telephone Calls from the Dead. 9:47 Discovering books and a love of reading on paranormal topics was a gateway to parapsychology for Callum. 11:53 Three must-read books recommended by Callum: Parapsychology: The Controversial Science by Richard S. Broughton Ph. D,  Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory by Stacy Horn, and Mediumship and Survival by Alan Gauld. 15:44 The field and study of parapsychology. 18:50 The struggle of funding parapsychology programs. 24:18 A voicemail from Charlotte on her experiences with receiving telephone calls from the dead. 26:45 Callum responds to Charlotte. 31:30 “I must confess that I am ninety-eight per cent sceptical when it comes to anything in the field of EVP.” 33:05 Raymond Bayless, Jurgenson, Raudive, and clearing up misinformation about the discovery of Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). 34:11 More stories from Callum's research into telephone calls from the dead. 37:57 Stop being fascinated by one-syllable “EVP”! 41:13 Uhoh! Patrick brought up the Estes Method. What does Dr. Cooper have to say about it? Spoiler Alert - It's the Ganzfeld or Noise Reduction Method. 42:30 The problem with TV portrayals of ghost hunting. 46:28 “Sometimes it's just really hard to get groups of ghost hunters to listen. They're not interested in someone being deemed a professional expert, because they believe there is no such thing.” 50:16 What really is a skeptic? Where some movements of skepticism went wrong. 53:15 Callum's work with Bereavement and Recovery. 55:24 How has the pandemic affected work with bereavement and recovery? 1:02:20 Inducing an After Death Communication (ADC) through Scrying and the Psychomanteum. 1:04:53 Final thoughts, including more on skepticism, and where to find Dr. Callum E. Cooper. 1:08:22 Railroad EXTRA #2 – A brand NEW Spectral Edition with Tim Prasil! 1:11:28 A special THANK YOU to Patreon supporters at the Super Paranerd and Parlor Guest level! 1:21:09 Outro 1:23:21    For more on Callum E. Cooper CallumECooper.com Twitter: @CallumECooper Callum's Amazon Author Page   The Big Seance Podcast can be found right here, on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Pandora, Spotify, TuneIn Radio, Stitcher, Amazon Music, and iHeart Radio. Please subscribe and share with a fellow paranerd! Do you have any comments or feedback? Please contact me at Patrick@BigSeance.com. Consider recording your voice feedback directly from your device on my SpeakPipe page! You can also call the show and leave feedback at (775) 583-5563 (or 7755-TELL-ME). I would love to include your voice feedback in a future show. The candles are already lit, so come on in and join the séance!  

Stacy Horn, author of Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York, on the notorious ‘lunatic asylum,' prison, workhouses, and hospitals that once stood on Roosevelt Island.

Returning to the show is my special guest author Stacy Horn who's here to discuss the mother of all asylums and the horrific things that occurred there! Get her book Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad and Criminal in 19th Century New York on Amazon. Do you enjoy paranormal episodes? Follow our new podcast 'Paranormal Fears' on any podcast app or Apple Podcasts. Enjoy the AD-FREE versions of our latest episodes and our archives right now. Follow us on Instagram @mysteriousradio Follow us on TikTok mysteriousradioTikTok Follow us on Twitter @mysteriousradio Follow us on Pinterest pinterest.com/mysteriousradio Like us on Facebook Facebook.com/mysteriousradio Visit our website: https://www.mysteriousradio.com Check Out Mysterious Radio! (copy the link to share with your friends and family via text) "Enthralling; it is well worth the trip.” --New York Journal of Books Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York's Blackwell's Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals, quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, "a lounging, listless madhouse." Digging through city records, newspaper articles, and archival reports, Stacy Horn tells a gripping narrative through the voices of the island's inhabitants. We also hear from the era's officials, reformers, and journalists, including the celebrated undercover reporter Nellie Bly. And we follow the extraordinary Reverend William Glenney French as he ministers to Blackwell's residents, battles the bureaucratic mazes of the Department of Correction and a corrupt City Hall, testifies at salacious trials, and in his diary wonders about man's inhumanity to his fellow man. Damnation Island shows how far we've come in caring for the least fortunate among us—and reminds us how much work still remains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Returning to the show is my notable guest author, Stacy Horn, who's here to discuss the mother of all asylums and the horrific things that occurred there!  Get her book Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th Century New York on Amazon.     About the book:  "Enthralling; it is well worth the trip.” --New York Journal of Books  Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York's Blackwell's Island, the site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and several hospitals, quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, "a lounging, listless madhouse." Digging through city records, newspaper articles, and archival reports, Stacy Horn tells a gripping narrative through the voices of the island's inhabitants. We also hear from the era's officials, reformers, and journalists, including the celebrated undercover reporter Nellie Bly. And we follow the extraordinary Reverend William Glenney French as he ministers to Blackwell's residents, battles the bureaucratic mazes of the Department of Correction and a corrupt City Hall, testifies at salacious trials, and in his diary wonders about man's inhumanity to his fellow man. Damnation Island shows how far we've come in caring for the least fortunate and reminds us how much work still remains.    Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Facebook It's super easy to access our archives! Here's how: iPhone Users: Access Mysterious Radio from  Apple Podcasts and become a subscriber there, or if you want access to even more exclusive content, join us on Patreon. Android Users: Enjoy over 800 exclusive member-only posts to include ad-free episodes, case files, and more when you join us on Patreon.  Please copy and Paste our link in a text message to all your family members and friends! We'll love you forever! (Check out Mysterious Radio!)

Ghostly talk Stacy Horn / Heidi Hollis Pt. 3

Ghostly talk Stacy Horn / Heidi Hollis Pt. 2

Ghostly talk Stacy Horn / Heidi Hollis Pt. 1

What happened to the Sodder children? Abbott, K. (2012, December 25). The Children Who Went up in Smoke. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/ Horn, S. (2005, December 28). Long, Long, Long Sodder Post. Stacy Horn. https://stacyhorn.com/2005/12/28/long-long-long-sodder-post/ Horn, S. (2005, December 23). Mystery of Missing Children Haunts W.Va. Town. NPR. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5067563 Sodder Children Disappearance. (2021, January 3). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sodder_children_disappearance&oldid=998074605 Stanton, A. (2006, December 24). Where are the children? Internet sleuths swaken 61-year-old Christmas mystery. The Register Harold. https://archive.is/20131014191841/http://www.register-herald.com/local/local_story_358182913.html#selection-939.0-1261.288

Tonight, my special guest is best-selling author Stacy Horn here to discuss the man who was considered The Einstein of Parapsychology who studied the paranormal for the government. Want more paranormal episodes? Follow our new podcast 'Paranormal Fears' on any podcast app or Apple Podcasts. Enjoy the AD-FREE versions of our latest episodes and our archives right now from anywhere in the world. Follow us on Instagram @mysteriousradio Follow us on Twitter @mysteriousradio Follow us on Pinterest pinterest.com/mysteriousradio Like us on Facebook Facebook.com/mysteriousradio Visit our website: https://www.mysteriousradio.com “Author Stacy Horn dissects all the things that go bump in the night—ghosts, poltergeists, your ex-boyfriend Klaus—in [her] macabre book.”  —Marie Claire A fascinating, eye-opening collection of “Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory,” Unbelievable by Stacy Horn explores science's remarkable first attempts to prove—or disprove—the existence of the paranormal. A featured contributor on the popular NPR program “All Things Considered,” Horn has been praised by Mary Roach, bestselling author of Spook, for her “awe-fueled curiosity [and] top-flight reporting skills.” Horn attacks a most controversial subject with Unbelievable—a book that will appeal to armchair scientists as well as fans of TV's Medium, The Ghost Whisperer, and Crossing Over with John Edward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ghostly Talk Stacy Horn Joins Us To Tell Us About Her Research Into Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory. / Heidi Hollis Returns To Tell Us About Picture Prayers. Pt. 3

Ghostly Talk Stacy Horn Joins Us To Tell Us About Her Research Into Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory. / Heidi Hollis Returns To Tell Us About Picture Prayers. Pt.

Ghostly Talk Stacy Horn Joins Us To Tell Us About Her Research Into Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory. / Heidi Hollis Returns To Tell Us About Picture Prayers. Pt.

Ghostly Talk Stacy Horn Joins Us To Tell Us About Her Research Into Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory. / Heidi Hollis Returns To Tell Us About Picture Prayers. Pt.

Ghostly Talk Stacy Horn Joins Us To Tell Us About Her Research Into Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory. / Heidi Hollis Returns To Tell Us About Picture Prayers. Pt. 1

Ghostly Talk Stacy Horn Joins Us To Tell Us About Her Research Into Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory. / Heidi Hollis Returns To Tell Us About Picture Prayers. Pt. 2

October 19, 2020 - In 1887, the New York World newspaper laughed off 23-year-old Elizabeth Cochrane's dreams of being a reporter. Today, she's a New York City legend, known to history by the pen name Nellie Bly. But to sew up that dream job, Nellie had to go undercover in the closest thing Gilded Age Gotham had to hell: The asylums of Blackwell's Island on the East River. Tonya Mitchell brings us a meticulously researched, fictionalized account of Nellie's mission in her debut novel, A Feigned Madness. It follows Nellie's quest to expose the corrupt officials running the asylum, and blow up the conventional wisdom that women just can't hack it in a newsroom. You've seen Tonya Mitchell's award-winning fiction in the Copperfield Review, Words Undone, the Front Porch Review, and various anthologies. She's also earned a BA from Indiana University in the field Nellie Bly pioneered, journalism, and describes herself as obsessed with the Victorian Era, as we'll see in the rich, transportive detail of her fiction. Visit her at TonyaMitchellAuthor.com or on , Facebook and Instagram. You can learn more about the fact behind the fiction of this episode, in our interview with Stacy Horn about her book, Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York.      

Stacy Horn, author of Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York, on the notorious ‘lunatic asylum,’ prison, workhouses, and hospitals that once stood on Roosevelt Island

Stacy Horn, author, on Rossevelt Island. Helen Fisher of Indiana Univ on the science of love. Michael Richardson, PhD and author, on deaf theater. Sarah Coyne of Brigham Young Univ on social media. Delece Smith-Barrow of The Hechinger Report on historically Black colleges.

Episode 10 “Damnation Island”: with Stacy Horn, Author.Purchased by the city in 1828, the island soon harbored an almshouse, an insane asylum, a hospital, a prison and a workhouse along its narrow two-mile strip. Heating and ventilation were nonexistent, disease ran rampant. Over the next 100 years, mayhem ensued, with wrongly admitted patients, death by murder and disease, inedible food and unspeakably dirty water.The boundaries between the four classes of people on the island (the poor, the mad, the sick and the criminal) are, in the public imagination, as blurred as ever. Blackwell Island would become another gateway leading to wide deep pits on Hart Island. Michael T. Keene is the author of Folklore and Legends of Rochester, Murder, Mayhem and Madness, Mad~House, Question of Sanity, and now his new book,  NEW YORK CITY’S HART ISLAND: A CEMETERY OF STRANGERS Pre-Order a signed, soft cover copy of the book: New York City's Hart Island, directly from the Authorhttps://michaeltkeene.com/hart-island-soft-cover-book/*Orders will ship on or after Oct 14, 2019 Learn more about Author / Host / Filmmaker Michael T. Keenehttps://michaeltkeene.com/about/ Send questions / comments / suggestions to:https://michaeltkeene.com/contact/ Connect with Michael T. Keene on Social MediaTwitter https://twitter.com/talkhartislandFacebook https://www.facebook.com/TalkingHartIsland/

This week, Stacy Horn Returns to talk about her book, "Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory" We discuss Mediums, ESP machines, Recording invisible voices, A experience of her own and a wide range of other topics. Closing Music for the show:  Shriekback - And The Rain

Stacy talks about her book "Damnation Island"

Tracey has the hot topics of the day. Tech talk features a heated razor and new features for you Amazon Echo. Kevin Smith talks about his great charity 'Life Is Good No Matter What". Matt Granite has a great deal on sunglasses. Stacy Horn talks about her book "Damnation Island". Nick Camino talks about the NBA draft.

Stacy Horn is the author of five nonfiction books, including Imperfect Harmony. Mary Roach has hailed her for "combining awe-fueled curiosity with topflight reporting skills." Horn’s commentaries have been heard on NPR’s All Things Considered and she is the founder of the social network Echo. She lives in New York City. Stacy's website can be found here: https://stacyhorn.com/ You can find Stacy's amazing books here: Unbelievable Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others Waiting for My Cats to Die: A Memoir The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York Music on this episode Intro/Outro: "Empathy" by Minimus The Poet https://minimusthepoet.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/minimusthepoet A special thank you to APS Mastering for their support. Visit www.apsmastering.com for all of your Audio Mastering needs.

December 31, 2018 - Our time machine travels back to a two-mile sliver of land in New York City's East River. Since 1971, it has been known as Roosevelt Island. But the Victorians knew it as Blackwell's Island, a dreaded name synonymous with illness, insanity, poverty, prisons and purgatory. You could suffer there for a variety of crimes, or for things as simple as being a woman walking alone late at night, an immigrant who didn't speak English, or someone too poor to make bail. Charles Dickens described the place as "a lounging, listless madhouse." Joining us to tell the true story of those who preceded us in the great story of Gotham is Stacy Horn. She brings us, Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York. Stacy's book is the first contemporary investigative account of Blackwell's, which she delivers by digging into the records of reformers, reporters and journalists like the intrepid Nellie Bly. Stacy Horn is the author of five nonfiction books, including Imperfect Harmony. She's the founder of the social network Echo and also works at the ASPCA, listing among her credentials "cat butler." Find her at StacyHorn.com or @StacyHorn on Twitter.  

Stacy Horn is an American author, businesswoman and occasional journalist. She grew up on Long Island, New York and received a B.F.A. from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She received a graduate degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program

This week Stacy Horn joins the show to talk about her book "Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York". We talk about Blackwell Islands decent into darkness and depravity. New York’s Victorian-era reformers had an idea: to isolate the city’s indigent, diseased, mentally ill, and delinquent on an island in the East River, where they could be cared for with competence and compassion. Unfortunately, it didn’t turn out that way. Find more of Stacy's books at https://stacyhorn.com/my-books/

Today we are talking about poverty in the 1800s and how the U.S. treated its poor, criminal, and mentally ill populations. New York City addressed this issue in the most horrific way by ferrying large numbers of its sick and disadvantaged across the East River to Blackwell's Island, a tragically underfunded, overcrowded, and grossly mismanaged institution for the city's so-called "undesirables." Stacy Horn is my guest today. She is the author of six nonfiction books and has done extensive research on New York's underprivileged on Blackwell's Island. Stacy came on the podcast to discuss her new book Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York. Want to listen to new episodes a week earlier and get exclusive bonus content? Consider becoming a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Like the podcast? Please subscribe and leave a review! Follow @CMTUHistory on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & TikTok --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What if the intro song to Cheers wasn’t about a bar, but instead about an online community where everyone knows your name? That’s what Stacy Horn created when she launched Echo, an online community that sought to connect New Yorkers. But Echo wasn’t Stacy’s first go at creating a community. While studying at NYU’s ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program), she was working in the telecommunications department at Mobil and had an idea to connect employees and improve processes by way of an internal community. The community failed but throughout this conversation, Stacy’s learnings from this first experience come up over and over again: the importance of actively seeking out a diversity of voices and experiences to be represented in your community, having a clear intention and set of community guidelines, and creating a space for the best in people. Today, Echo is nearly 30 years old. Its archives are on record with the New York Historical Society and the historians that look back on its conversations will be in for treat. In fact, it’ll be like they stumbled into a neighborhood bar full of people that have been chatting with each other for years. Stacy also shares: Why she failed when it came to starting an internal community for Mobil’s employees The costs and infrastructure behind Echo, including an NYC street excavation How she made Echo an inclusive space for women Echo as an archive to pivotal moments in NYC’s history, including 9/11 Our Podcast is Made Possible By… If you enjoy our show, please know that it’s only possible with the generous support of our sponsor: Higher Logic. Big Quotes On building an internal community for Mobil employees in the 80s: “The reason my [internal community] failed was that a number of [employees] across the country had just decided they were going torpedo it and just not participate. They were going to make sure it didn’t work. The reason they did that was not because they were bad, evil people trying to destroy my corporate dreams. What I saw as a way of finding problems and fixing them, they saw as exposing their mistakes.” –@stacyhorn On starting a community based on your passions: “People will sometimes ask me if they should start a community … tied to their passion. … My answer is usually that, well, if you start a community, you’ll still talk about that passion but you’ll have a whole new passion that’ll suck up your time and that passion is community management. It takes you away from that hobby, that love, that passion, and puts you into that seat where you have to maintain the environment so that other people can have that same passion that you once had and hopefully still do.” –@patrickokeefe On where she was hoping to see more progress: “It isn’t the internet or any of our tools that have failed. It is still us. It still comes right back to us and the people that are spreading ugliness. It’s them, not the internet. It’s a shame that they have a platform that they didn’t have before which allows them to grow. Again, the ugliness is in them.” –@stacyhorn About Stacy Horn Stacy Horn, who Mary Roach has hailed for “combining awe-fueled curiosity with topflight reporting skills,” is the author of six nonfiction books. Her newest is Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad & Criminal in 19th Century New York. Her previous books include Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others, Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, and The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City’s Cold Case Squad, which received starred reviews from both Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly. Over the years Horn has produced pieces for the NPR show, All Things Considered, including the 1945 story of five missing children in West Virginia, the Vatican’s search for a patron saint of the internet, and an overview of cold case investigation in the United States. Horn is also the founder of the New York City-based social network Echo. Echo was home to many online media firsts, including the first interactive tv show, which was co-produced with the then SciFi Channel. Related Links Sponsor: Higher Logic, the community platform for community managers Stacy Horn on Twitter Stacy’s website Echo The WELL Stacy’s interview with the Women’s Internet History Project The WELL’s community guidelines The SitePoint forums IMDb is closing its message boards Community Signal episode about the IMDb message boards Growing Old in New York’s Snarkiest Early-Internet Community Transcript View on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you’d like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. If you enjoy the show, we would be so grateful if you spread the word and supported Community Signal on Patreon.

Stacy Horn, author of "Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad and Criminal in 19th-Century New York", joins me to chat about the infamous New York City island, which housed (among other terrible buildings) the women's notorious lunatic asylum that continued to operate for decades, despite the horrendous abuses committed against the inmates.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kelley and Gordon interview author Stacy Horn about her new book: "Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad and Criminal in 19th Century New York." Later, more responses to the Question of the Day. For more information: https://stacyhorn.com/ 

Kelley and Gordon interview author Stacy Horn about her new book: "Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad and Criminal in 19th Century New York." Later, more responses to the Question of the Day. For more information: https://stacyhorn.com/ 

We shine a light on a dark chapter of New York City's past. And we get a lesson in shag dancing from the Queen of Southern Fiction Karen White.

In this episode Matt Crawford talks to Stacy Horn about her new book Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad & Criminal in 19th-Century New York. Known today as Roosevelt Island, Blackwell's Island in the early 19th century was home to an insane asylum, two prisons, an almshouse and a number of hospitals. The atrocities that took place here were unimaginable and yet Stacy Horn writes of it in a way that echoes in the present. A non-fiction book that reads as fiction truly must be read to be believed. 

David E. Sanger talks about “The Perfect Weapon,” and Stacy Horn discusses “Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad & Criminal in 19th-Century New York.”

John & Heidi share funny stories of people doing weird things... plus John chats with author Stacy Horn about her book Damnation Island Learn more about our radio program, podcast & blog at www.JohnAndHeidiShow.com

On a two-mile stretch of land in New York’s East River, a 19th-century horror story was unfolding . . . Today we call it Roosevelt Island. Then, it was Blackwell’s, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals. Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world ever seen, Blackwell’s Island quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, “a lounging, listless madhouse.”In the first contemporary investigative account of Blackwell’s, Stacy Horn tells this chilling narrative through the gripping voices of the island’s inhabitants, as well as the period’s officials, reformers, and journalists, including the celebrated Nellie Bly. Digging through city records, newspaper articles, and archival reports, Horn brings this forgotten history alive: there was terrible overcrowding; prisoners were enlisted to care for the insane; punishment was harsh and unfair; and treatment was nonexistent. Throughout the book, we return to the extraordinary Reverend William Glenney French as he ministers to Blackwell’s residents, battles the bureaucratic mazes of the Department of Correction and a corrupt City Hall, testifies at salacious trials, and in his diary wonders about man’s inhumanity to man. In Damnation Island, Stacy Horn shows us how far we’ve come in caring for the least fortunate among us—and reminds us how much work still remains. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Long ago there was an island called Blackwell's Island. It was a punitive facility in the 19th century. That alone should tell you pretty much everything about it. Places like that have a pretty storied reputation. If you're not familiar, Damnation Island will fix that. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 16th - Donald Jeffries, Stacy Horn

Jimmy's tech talk featured wireless tech,Kenneth Davis talks about his book "More Deadly Than War", Matt Granite has a deal on a helicopter, Stacy Horn talks about her book "Damnation Island", Adam Corolla talks about his show at the Agora.

May 16th - Donald Jeffries, Stacy Horn

How did cyberpunks and activists affect the tech industry? Do we understand the history of the internet? How much of what we know comes only from a man’s perspective? This week, Claire L. Evans tells us about her new book, Broad Band, and the women who created the internet. Photo by Jaclyn Campanaro There Were Women In The Room: This week Paul Ford and Gina Trapani sit down with Claire L. Evans to chat about her new book, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. We discuss the impact of online communities, how weird the dot-com era was, and the stories of the women who made things work. We also get a window into Y△CHT’s future project — the Broad Band Musical! 2:29 — Claire: “[This book is] a corrective if you will, of all the books we’ve all read and love about Silicon Valley, and the garage-to-riches stories of entrepreneurship… These are the stories about the women who were in the room the whole time, and nobody asked about them.” 5:06 — Paul: “Women get forgotten from activist histories too, and it was kind of an activist scene in the early days.”  5:22 — Gina: “Weird was welcome, in a way that is no longer the case.” 7:03 — Claire: “My big takeaway is how little we value long-term care and maintenance when it comes to building things… I profile Stacy Horn, who founded Echo BBS in the late 90s. It still exists. And she has devoted 25 years of her life to fostering and caring for this community. … She’s taking care of something, because she’s responsible for a community, and I think that’s really beautiful.” 8:24— Claire: “We mythologize the box, but it’s the users that change the world; it’s what you do with it. The culture work, the development of making things worth linking is almost as important as making the conventions for linking.  8:24 — Gina: “It’s broadening the definition of what making the web was. It wasn’t just about standardizing protocols and running code, it was about building the places where people wanted to come and connect and share.”  9:07— Paul: “Moderation…it’s critical, it’s key to these communities but it doesn’t get as much appreciation as ‘I wrote a page of code.’” 20:51 — Claire: “We’re all very siloed in the contemporary media landscape.” A full transcript for this episode is available. LINKS Claire L Evans Y△CHT Broad Band : The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet Ada Lovelace Jamie Levy Halt and Catch Fire BBS Echo BBS Stacy Horn Heather Champ Polymaths Track Changes is the weekly technology and culture podcast from Postlight, hosted by Paul Ford and Rich Ziade. Production, show notes and transcripts by EDITAUDIO. Podcast logo and design by Will Denton of Postlight.

We talk to Claire Evans (who last joined us on the first ever episode of Radio Motherboard!) about her new book BROAD BAND: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. Claire joined Motherboard staff writer Kaleigh Rogers to talk about the internet past and present with Marisa Bowe, editor-in-chief of one of the first internet publications, and Stacy Horn, founder of EchoNYC, an early internet community that launched in the early 1990s and still exists today. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Most of us remember the joyful song about teaching the world to sing, in perfect harmony. It was later used as an incredibly popular Coke commercial.  Some of you may have seen the contestant on American idol with a serious stutter, that disappeared when he sang.Both are testaments to the power of song, and of singing with others. In fact, over 40 million Americans participate in some kind of group singing. But why? What's the appeal and what’s the impact?Bestselling author ;and commentator Stacy Horn takes a look at his in Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with OthersMy conversation with Stacy Horn: 

Born in Norfolk Virginia, and a product of Long Island, Stacy chats with the boys about life, the universe and everything and her book Unbelievable! Investigations of Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy and other unseen phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory.

11/14/10 SUNDAY HOUR ONE (8-9 PM Eastern) Stacy Horn Unbelievable: Investigations Into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, From the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, Ecco/HarperCollins, 2009 http://www.StacyHorn.com

Author Stacy Horn stops by to talk about her new book, Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, which details well look at the title, people!To learn more about Stacy and her work, visit: www.stacyhorn.com You can buy your own copy of Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory by clicking here.After the interview, Jeff and Jeremy talk about some recent events thatll fall quite out of the normal.

G&D 03-08-09Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology LaboratoryScientists have always disdained parapsychology, but there was a brief moment in the early 1930’s when the scientific community thought, well, okay, ectoplasm, seances and table rappings aside, maybe there is something going on. Duke opened a lab to study the various phenomena, and for a few decades, a group of serious scientists and graduate students tried to find if there was anything to it all. Unbelievable is the story of what they did and did not find.