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Podchaser The theatrical history of the great 1876 Centennial Exposition – one of the biggest entertainment events ever mounted in Philadelphia.
In this special episode, we explore the theatrical history of the great Centennial Exposition – one of the biggest entertainment events ever mounted in Philadelphia.
Our guests today are historian John Henry Hepp IV and the blogger and culture history maven TravSD!
A blog post, with many of the images and buildings we talk about during the show, is HERE.
Here is a link to Professor Hepp's book, Mystery and Marvel, Philadelphia's 1876 Exhibition.
And this is a ling to TravSD's history of vaudeville: No Applause—Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous.
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© Podcast text copyright, Peter Schmitz. All rights reserved.
℗ All original voice recordings copyright Peter Schmitz.
℗ All original music copyright Christopher Mark Colucci. Used by permission.
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Donald Travis Stewart - known professionally as Trav S.D. - is an American author, journalist, playwright and stage performer. In 2008, he launched the arts and culture blog Travalanche, which features thousands of biographies of vaudeville, burlesque, circus, sideshow, cinema, and radio performers and other show business professionals, as well as related news, reviews, and commentary. It is a resource I turn to all the time when I want the lowdown on American cultural figures, great and small. He is the author of No Applause, Just Throw Money, a wonderful book about the history of vaudeville.
John Henry Hepp IV, is Professor Emeritus of History at Wilkes University and was born and raised in greater Philadelphia. His teaching and research interests center on the effects of technological and economic change on everyday urban life. He has been interested in the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition since childhood, when his grandparents would tell him stories of the fair when they drove through Fairmount Park. "The Middle-Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003) and "Mystery and Marvel: Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exposition"
(Brookline Books, 2024).
