WFMU: Summer Camp: Playlist from November 9, 2024

Listener comments!
	10:48am DJ GeorgyGirl: Hi, gang! <3
	10:52am MHLee: Soon
	10:53am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @10:52 Hello, lovely! :-)
	10:56am MHLee: ↳ Song: "La Folia" by "Disemballerina" I've interviewed this band
	10:56am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @10:56 I love this track :-)
	10:57am DJ GeorgyGirl: Let me put some food out :-) novoxinc.com...
	11:00am DJ GeorgyGirl: Here we go!
	11:01am WR: Hello DJ GG and MHLee.
	11:01am DJ GeorgyGirl: I'm going to get myself a drink - today feels like a hot chocolate day to me :-)
	11:01am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ WR @11:01 WR! Hello, my lovely :-)
	11:01am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ WR @11:01 I've put a buffet table out so do help yourself <3
	11:02am DJ GeorgyGirl: Right, got my hot chocolate <3 realfood.tesco.com...
	11:02am DJ GeorgyGirl: It is freezing today in the UK
	11:03am Krys O.: Hey
	11:03am MHLee: It's 50F here so like Fall weather for once
	11:03am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @11:03 Hello, my lovely! :-)
	11:04am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:03 It was humid here and hot and then hot and then hot and then ... freezing. No transition, no warning, no nothing. Lol
	11:04am DJ GeorgyGirl: One minute I was in a t-shirt and the next a thick jumper!
	11:05am DJ GeorgyGirl: Today's show feels VERY Autumnal and I am totally here for that :-)
	11:06am MHLee: ↳ Song: "Scarborough Fair" by "Midwinter" This is such a dark recording, The cavernous echo does something.
	11:06am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Song: "Scarborough Fair" by "Midwinter" The harmonies on this are truly outstanding <3
	11:06am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:06 It really does!!!
	11:07am MHLee: ↳ Song: "Scarborough Fair" by "Midwinter" I've listened to this one a lot this year.
	11:07am DJ GeorgyGirl: When I was editing today's show I kept thinking, "Oh - THIS show is really special" <3
	11:07am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:07 It definitely fits the season :-)
	11:08am MHLee: It's very cinematic. I feel like I'm at the climax of a movie.
	11:08am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:07 Thank you for introducing me to some extraordinary new music :-)
	11:08am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:08 Yes!!! What a perfect description!
	11:09am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Song: "The Corn Queen" by "Widow's Weeds" The vibe on this is magnificent
	11:11am DJ GeorgyGirl: "Nerdistan" made me chuckle :-)
	11:11am Roger: Love this! thank you!
	11:12am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Roger @11:11 Hello, my lovely!!! :-) What a lovely show you did just now - I loved it <3
	11:12am MHLee: ↳ Song: "Tuatha" by "Green Mistletoe" Ohio is like that
	11:13am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:12 I'm enjoying the book so much, I have to say - highly recommended!
	11:13am MHLee: I'll suggest it to the book club
	11:14am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:13 <3
	11:15am MHLee: This town is odd because the weird places where the town ends tend to have abandoned graveyards
	11:16am MHLee: The still used graveyard separates neighborhoods too
	11:16am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:15 Ooooooooo!!! That makes me want to visit!
	11:16am DJ GeorgyGirl: I mean, also to say hello and have tea, but you know what I mean :-)
	11:17am MHLee: There's an old potter's field few people are aware of that people stumble across
	11:17am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:17 I am LOVING this!!
	11:18am MHLee: Actually, my hometown has another fun place... the Peninsula.. the newspaper is printed there... basically before i was born the city tore down the bridge to get there and said they'd build another
	11:19am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:18 And they never did? That is WILD :-)
	11:19am MHLee: They never did. To get there you have to ford a creek or go up a tall, steep hill, which has never been developed and has an old graveyard on top
	11:20am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:19 I'm forming a picture of this place in my head :-)
	11:20am DJ GeorgyGirl: I love how they just went, "Nope!"
	11:21am DJ GeorgyGirl: Technically Portsmouth, where I was born, is a peninsula. There's one motorway that takes you in and out of the city. Every time there's a hard winter snow you're basically trapped there.
	11:21am DJ GeorgyGirl: The only other way you can get there is via ferry from the neighbouring town of Gosport on the mainland.
	11:22am DJ GeorgyGirl: Portsmouth was built for one purpose only, and that was war. hence the difficulty of actually getting there ;-)
	11:23am MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:20 Apparently it's more like one cemetery they split into three and like bits of it are owned by the city but the city seems to be unaware they own it
	11:23am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:23 So does that mean that some of it is overgrown and such? That must be wildly creepy at night!
	11:24am MHLee: Some years ago a sign was erected calling this now cut-off section of Peninsula Cemetery the Manchester Cemetery and has caused a lot of confusion over the years. There was indeed a cemetery in the Manchester area but it was called the Old Catholic Cemetery, and its location was down the hill from Peninsula Cemetery.
	11:24am NotARealDoctor: Hello DJ GeorgyGirl! I live quite near a different Portsmouth in an area that similarly exists almost entirely for the purposes of war. Building warships, docking warships, and recently (within the past 3/4 century) war planes as well. War can feel quite inescapable here sometimes.
	11:25am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:24 Has anyone ever written a book about the city?
	11:25am WR: Hi N A R D.
	11:25am NotARealDoctor: I am rather digging the vibes you're laying down this morning
	11:25am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ NotARealDoctor @11:24 Hello, my lovely!! Yep, I know that feeling well! Naval yards and docks and so on as far as the eye can see
	11:26am MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:23 There are so many of those. The Dreamer Memorial in PA is a giant black obelisk in the middle of no where... put out there in 1930s... the area around it is owned by a fracking company now and it's disappeared behind some pinwes
	11:26am MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:25 I'm sure. We have a blog even weelunk.com...
	11:26am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:26 A giant black obelisk?? I am so intrigued by all of this :-)
	11:26am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:26 That's my weekend ready sorted :-) Thank you! <3
	11:27am WR: So I am speculating that you did the reading selection and reading and editing, MHLee did the music selections?
	11:27am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ WR @11:27 It's pretty much 50/50 between us :-)
	11:27am DJ GeorgyGirl: A full-on collaboration! :-)
	11:28am DJ GeorgyGirl: Put it this way - if it's an old record, it was me, and the new ones are MH Lee :-)
	11:28am MHLee: There's probably three abandoned cemetery in the Wheeling area
	11:29am MHLee: The name is corruption of Delaware for "place of head" because some heads were left on spkes there in the 1700s
	11:29am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:28 It's the concept of abandoned cemetery that gets me. There's something so poignant about that
	11:30am MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:29 In Europe, I imagine you keep throwingbodies in
	11:30am NotARealDoctor: ↳ WR @11:25 Good morning WR, good to see you
	11:31am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:29 WOAH! A lot of that went on here, too. I found out on Ancestry that I'm descended from Robert Kett, and his head ended up on a spike on the gates of Norwich. I got rebel blood in me ;-)
	11:31am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:30 Yeah - that happens a lot too. Lack of space and all that.
	11:32am DJ GeorgyGirl: IIRC he's my 15th great grandfather or something like that :-) en.wikipedia.org...
	11:34am DJ GeorgyGirl: He was a landowner who actually listened to his serfs and said, "Bollocks to this! Let's start a rebellion!" Needless to say, it didn't end well ...
	11:34am NotARealDoctor: ↳ Song: "Long Lankin" by "The Devil's Interval" Oh heavens that accordion is giving me shivers. Love this.
	11:34am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ NotARealDoctor @11:34 Isn't it wonderful? This is one of MH's picks :-)
	11:35am MHLee: ↳ NotARealDoctor @11:34 This is a horrific old folk song. I have a record of like 30 versions from old Appalachian women
	11:35am NotARealDoctor: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:34 Cheers to MH then! 🍻
	11:35am DJ GeorgyGirl: <nervously checks the time> Yep - we're past the half hour mark. Phew! ;-)
	11:35am NotARealDoctor: ↳ MHLee @11:35 Oh that's wonderful! What a record find!
	11:38am MHLee: www.findagrave.com... Another abandoned cemetery... the family that owns the house next to it takes care of it but there's no church or cemetery administration
	11:39am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:38 If the photo's anything to go by the family are doing a good job but I imagine it's a massive undertaking (pardon the unintended pun!)
	11:40am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:38 I imagine you'd like to visit here - it's on my list :-) en.wikipedia.org...
	11:40am MHLee: I worked with the person cited there. He wrote stuff about when he was 18. We had to dig down to set stones back into place
	11:41am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:40 You did good work there <3
	11:42am MHLee: There's a pioneer cemetery in the middle of a local park... it's really odd... the city building is in the middle of the woods rather than city... behind it a park with some random graves every once in a while then you get to the bottom and you can see a housing development
	11:42am DJ GeorgyGirl: Today's show is making me REALLY want a roast dinner in a small pub somewhere overlooking the sea. :-) I may have to do that tomorrow!
	11:43am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:42 Does anyone know why the muincipal building is so far out? or is it just one of those things?
	11:46am MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:43 It's really strange but technically it's in front of the city park
	11:46am MHLee: We also have the grave that uninterred itself locally
	11:46am DJ GeorgyGirl: Many years ago I was in the wilds of Buckinghamshire and out in the woods on a walk. Right in the middle of dense, DENSE forest was a tiny clearing, literally a small patch in the middle of a circle of close, tall trees. And right smack dab in the centre of it was a burnt out car. My friends and I stood there for ages trying to figure out how on earth the car got there. I still have no idea and it was BIZARRE.
	11:47am MHLee: www.wboy.com...
	11:47am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:46 Okay you can't leave it at that!! It "uninterred itself"?? I need more details :-)
	11:47am MHLee: ↳ Song: "Idumæa" by "Current 93 (feat Shirley Collins)" I love this one so much. Marc Almond is on this album too
	11:48am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:47 WOAH!!!
	11:48am MHLee: Charleston Gazette, WV. 5/14/1976 It was discovered July 1, 1975, by Glenn Pierce, the aging caretaker of Oak Grove Cemetery in Morgantown. The sod was pushed up about eight inches, leaving a dark hole on one side. Pierce hesitantly focused the beam of a flashlight inside, then jumped back at the sight of a concrete vault with a broken lid about six feet down. Pierce's superiors were inclined to put it down as vandalism, but when Morgantown police could find no shovel marks or any other signs of tampering, the discovery took on new dimensions. It was obvious the ground had been pushed up from the inside. A gas company inspector could find no evidence of methane or sewer gas. A funeral director suggested gas from a decaying body might be the answer. Looking at the grave marker standing at an angle a few feet away, however, seemed to dispel this. It indicated the occupant was 3-year-old Harry Spitz, who had died in 1912. His body would have been too small and it was long past the time of gaseous decay. Morgantown Police Chief Bennie Palmer and Lt. William Hughes looked on while diggers hauled up the vault and casket. The concrete vault came out in seven pieces. The wooden casket was intact. The cloth covering the lid was rotting but there was no signs of mildew or dampness. The stem of a flower and a metal name plate lay undisturbed in a small indentation in the lid. Suspecting a clue might be inside the casket itself, Pierce unlatched the lid and cautiously opened it with a shovel. Inside was the surprisingly well-preserved body of a child. His long, blond hair glowed in the noonday sun. “He was almost as perfect as the day they put him there,” Pierce remarked. On his chest was a flower stem and a metal piece with the inscription “Our Darling”. At the feet was a black and white teddy bear. Monongalia County records indicate the child died of cholera. Dr. Otis Fansler, pathologist and head of the morgue at University Medical Center, wondered if anerobic organisms had survived and possibly infected the onlookers. Fansler took skin samples from the hands, throat and nose of the body and turned them into cultures. He found them to be sterile. The same day the body and casket were placed in a new vault and returned to the ground. After geologists discounted earth displacement, Mrs. Marion Stone, secretary-treasurer of Oak Grove Cemetery Assn., declared, "I think it was an act of God." News of the phenomenon brought out droves of curious passersby, who negotiated the narrow cemetery road to stare at the grave.' Fundamentalists opened Bibles to Thessalonians 4:16-17 and proclaimed the explanation: “For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; And the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.” A woman psychic from Pittsburgh, Pa., declared a love bond existed between the child and his mother and that his love had burst from the grave and rushed to his mother. The 91-year-old mother still lives in a nursing hone at Terra Alta, Preston.
	11:48am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:47 I do love me a bit of Current 93 :-) I went to his house in Hastings many moons ago. Not to actually visit, mind you, but to stand outside it :-)
	11:49am DJ GeorgyGirl: "A woman psychic from Pittsburgh, Pa., declared a love bond existed between the child and his mother and that his love had burst from the grave and rushed to his mother. The 91-year-old mother still lives in a nursing hone at Terra Alta, Preston." - that just sent shivers up my spine.
	11:50am MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:49 There's some weird cryptic stuff with it
	11:51am DJ GeorgyGirl: Bloody hell - it's not even 5 pm here and it's already dark outside. We are now officially in Autumn.
	11:51am DJ GeorgyGirl: It's dark outside and it's raining and cold - definitely fitting the vibe of today's show :-)
	11:51am MHLee: ↳ Song: "Death Skull" by "Allysen Callery With Mother Bear" I got a poster for this album... has a 70s movie poster vibe
	11:52am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:51 Do you have a link? I'd love to see that :-)
	11:52am MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:52 f4.bcbits.com...
	11:52am MHLee: This was a chance find on bandcamp I think
	11:52am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:52 Excellent Amicus vibes there!!
	11:53am DJ GeorgyGirl: You could probably play all of today's show over "A Field in England" and it would fit ;-)
	11:54am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Song: "Drip Drip" by "Comus" I chose to narrate over most of this ... for obviosu reasons. Don't want to put anyone off their cornflakes ;-)
	11:54am MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:53 A Field in England is so wild. I have a RPG campaign based on it I purchased I want to play so badly
	11:55am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:54 You are literally the only other person I know who likes that movie as much as I do. Lol I think it's utter genius :-)
	11:55am DJ GeorgyGirl: " A Field in England" is acid folk in cinematic form :-)
	11:56am DJ GeorgyGirl: And they shot it in 12 freaking days.
	11:56am MHLee: Do the rust belt and the British industrial wasteland share a vibe?
	11:57am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Song: "Drip Drip" by "Comus" A jolly little ditty about necrophilia. Lol
	11:57am MHLee: Also WV has the coal ghost town abandonedonline.net...
	11:58am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:56 That's a good question. I would say probably yes. The ghosts of impinging industry and downfall and all that. Maybe the US versions are more desert like? The UK ones tend to be more abandoned industry in the middle of fields and forests.
	11:58am MHLee: Coal ghost town in a genre of place not a single place
	11:58am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:57 I've bookmarked that for a closer read :-)
	11:59am DJ GeorgyGirl: Ghost towns fascinate me.
	11:59am MHLee: www.stavislost.com...
	12:00pm MHLee: Kaymoor is fascinating
	12:00pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:59 This is FABULOUS!!!
	12:02pm MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:58 In several cases the towns existed as lumber towns but when they were no longer necessary the B&O railroad burned them down
	12:02pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:02 It's crazy to me that we place so much stock in home and city - and yet they can disappear at the whim of trends and capitalism.
	12:03pm MHLee: Some cases there was a single old woman who continued to live in the town which was now cut off from civilization
	12:04pm MHLee: www.abandonedcountry.com...
	12:04pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:03 The older I get, the more I relaise that I'd probably be that woman ;-) Shotgun in hand, strange sculptures in my garden, nine million cats. "GET OFF MY LAND!" :-)
	12:07pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Song: "O Death" by "The Hare And The Moon" That cinematic swell in the background is incredible
	12:07pm MHLee: The Grey Malkin has a lot of influence in today's picks. He's significant in the Folk Horror Revival movement and worked with The Hare and Moon and Widows Weeds
	12:07pm MHLee: I found he has cover of lucifer sam
	12:08pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:07 He's amazing! I follow him on IG :-)
	12:10pm DJ GeorgyGirl: Me reading this section over the tolling of the bells was complete chance. I love it when that happens ;-)
	12:11pm MHLee: Lol. In Paw Paw there is a huge abandoned tunnel. It's soo long partly through you can't see the light on the other end.
	12:12pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:11 If that's not a potent metaphor, I don't know what it is! Lol
	12:12pm MHLee: Paths on either side of the tunnel exist. We took on and continue to follow it until we came out in a neighborhood with a sign saying the park is this way,
	12:13pm MHLee: www.nps.gov...
	12:13pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:12 Whether it's the sea or the land, we all get a swat from the universe from time to time, I think. "Oh, so you think you know where you're going, eh? Think again." Lol
	12:14pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:13 "Weep holes"!!! How evocative is THAT? :-)
	12:15pm MHLee: There's the idea of a pagan, weird WV. I think it's connected with the ideas behind the Old Gods of Appalachia podcast. I haven't listened to it though.
	12:16pm MHLee: The PNW seems to radiate weird folk energy
	12:16pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:15 Ooo! Do you have a link for that? I'd love to listen :-)
	12:16pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:16 The PNW is DEFINITELY full of that vibe!
	12:17pm MHLee: www.oldgodsofappalachia.com
	12:17pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Song: "Highgate Cemetery" by "Roy Harper" I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Roy Harper's voice is balm to my very soul <3
	12:17pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:17 Thank you :-)
	12:18pm MHLee: ↳ Song: "Highgate Cemetery" by "Roy Harper" There are cemeteries in Wheeling with 4 times the number of the living
	12:19pm MHLee: www.flickr.com...
	12:19pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:18 I plan to do a tour one day of the grand old Victorian cemeteries of London. The Grand Seven? Something like that :-)
	12:20pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:19 What a gorgeous building!
	12:20pm DJ GeorgyGirl: Magnificent Seven! Of course ;-) en.wikipedia.org...
	12:21pm MHLee: We have the Mt Wood cemetery... mostly Jewish and falling off the mountain
	12:21pm MHLee: We have the overlook, a friend of mine actually uncovered the history behind
	12:22pm DJ GeorgyGirl: I met a chap once in Barnes cemetery in London. He was a semi-official chronicler of graves. Fascinating man. He told me about gravestone and statue folklore - for example, headless statues in cemeteries aren't necessarily vandalism. They tended to be built that way as a symbol of enlightenment.
	12:22pm MHLee: www.archivingwheeling.org...
	12:22pm DJ GeorgyGirl: I am enjoying this conversation so much :-)
	12:23pm DJ Babs: Hi Darlings! Just popping in for a hello! I am sorry I'm not so chatty lately...things are a bit craaaazy here ATM, lol
	12:23pm MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @12:20 A mausoleum
	12:23pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ DJ Babs @12:23 BABS!! Hello, darling, gorgeous Babs!! <3
	12:24pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:23 And ... the whole history of the concept of intercolumniation which is one of my pet subjects :-)
	12:26pm DJ GeorgyGirl: Basically, a Belgian abbe in the middle ages realised that on architectural plans, columns represent the dots of musical notes. Intercolumniation is the music that buildings make. So, a mausoleum would have few dense doric columns - or a funeral dirge in musical form. Whereas an opera has many corinthian columns (and some half ones) so it resembles complex and light music :-)
	12:27pm DJ GeorgyGirl: Even the humble front door with its two columns framing the door makes music. "Bing! Bong!" It's signalling hello :-)
	12:27pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @12:26 *opera house
	12:29pm DJ GeorgyGirl: Opera houses tend to group columns in threes as well so you have a waltz tempo.
	12:29pm DJ GeorgyGirl: It blew my mind when I first read that :-)
	12:30pm MHLee: The Catholic cemetery across the street from that mausoleum has freaked me out before. The chapel has pale green light at night... and there's a a madonna or something which looks a bride... if it's a clear day you see it... but once I went by it in the morning and everything was so foggy and you could only make out her.
	12:30pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:30 That would have freaked me out too!!!
	12:32pm MHLee: I thought it was a ghost, then just a weird woman, then realized later it was the Madonna
	12:32pm DJ GeorgyGirl: On the train journey between London and Brighton there's an area in Surrey which is fairly uninhabited, just a church up on the hill. At night it's almost pitch dark out there and all you can see is this enormous illuminated cross on top of the church that looks like it's floating in the sky. If you're half asleep on the train it can give you quite the jolt!
	12:32pm MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @12:30 You'd love some of the school houses here
	12:32pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:32 I mean, any of those would make me jump!
	12:32pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:32 I totally would!!
	12:32pm MHLee: www.flickr.com...
	12:34pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:32 The skating rink! <3
	12:34pm DJ GeorgyGirl: Also, some of those buildings are HUGE
	12:35pm MHLee: The local high school where i currently live is a monstrous building
	12:35pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Song: "Voyage Into The Golden Screen" by "Donovan" "Dam-ahhhsk"? Lol
	12:36pm MHLee: encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com...
	12:36pm MHLee: cmsv2-assets.apptegy.net...
	12:36pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:36 I mean ... knowing how big those balloons are ... BLIMEY!!!
	12:37pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:36 Is that a school?? It's MASSIVE!!
	12:37pm MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @12:37 Yeah and I think it has under 2,000 studnets
	12:38pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:37 You could rollerskate around that building. And by you, I mean that I would totally rollerskate around that building ;-)
	12:38pm MHLee: ↳ Song: "Stretched On Your Grave" by "The Big Eyes Family ... This is a lovely album
	12:38pm Krys O.: I've lived near cemeteries in Bloomfield, NJ for all of the 25 years I've been here. There are two nearby. One is on the other side of the Garden State Parkway highway that is two blocks away. Many cemeteries in this area are near highways.
	12:38pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:38 This song is incredible
	12:38pm Krys O.: Dealing with traffic in New Jersey can be a battle.
	12:39pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @12:38 That must be such a surreal sight to drive past!
	12:40pm MHLee: In Wheeling... near where i went to middle school... there are cemeteries on three sides... the catholic on stretches forever up the hill and the other ends are Greenwood
	12:40pm MHLee: My friend is the groundkeeper there
	12:41pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:40 I'm imagining all the personal history contained in them.
	12:41pm David The Splatter: Popping in to say hello to everyone. Been listening while doing some chores around the place.
	12:41pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ David The Splatter @12:41 Hello David, my lovely! :-)
	12:42pm MHLee: www.findagrave.com...
	12:42pm MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @12:41 Confederates, Union Vets, department store owners, river boat captains... all graves i know of personally
	12:42pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:42 Gosh, those statues are lovely <3
	12:43pm MHLee: There was a grave that had giant blown glass punchbowl
	12:43pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:42 Do you find yourself wondering about all the people there? It makes me ponder on stories when I wander around graveyards
	12:43pm Krys O.: Weird NJ magazine is dedicated to all of the local legends and unexplained oddities around the state. weirdnj.com I'm pals with the guys who run the magazine. They used to have a show on the History Channel years ago too.
	12:44pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:43 A punchbowl?? There must be a story behind that!!
	12:44pm MHLee: The bowl and grave still exist but they aren't still together i think
	12:44pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @12:43 OOOO!!! This is getting bookmarked! Thank you <3
	12:44pm MHLee: "The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum. "
	12:44pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:44 Lead crystal? That thing must weigh a ton
	12:45pm DJ GeorgyGirl: What's the name of the musical instrument that has hundreds of glass cups? Weren't they lead crystal as well?
	12:45pm Krys O.: Loads of stories on Weird NJ dealing with cemeteries: weirdnj.com...
	12:45pm DJ GeorgyGirl: What the bloody hell is it called ...
	12:45pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @12:45 I love anything like this <3
	12:45pm MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @12:43 Do people do living history things in England? You can basically annually take a tour where impersonators talk about their grave and death
	12:46pm Krys O.: The glass harmonica?
	12:46pm DJ GeorgyGirl: Armonica!! That's what it's called :-)
	12:46pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @12:46 That :-)
	12:46pm MHLee: I think I told you about the steamboat captain who didn't spill a drop of whiskey when he died
	12:46pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:45 I'm not sure about that - ghost talks for sure. There may very well be some tho. I need to investigate :-)
	12:47pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:46 Yes! You did! I love that story :-)
	12:47pm DJ GeorgyGirl: "A synthetic schoolmistress"? Did I just shade myself? Lol
	12:48pm DJ GeorgyGirl: One more track to go and then it's over to the magnificent Krys-O! I have enjoyed every single second of today's show and chat :-)
	12:49pm MHLee: That's GG and Krys O. Fun to talk about this.
	12:50pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:49 I've had a wonderful time!! Thank you so much for introducing me to this amazing music and for the wonderful conversation :-)
	12:50pm MHLee: weelunk.com... all our dead friends
	12:50pm DJ GeorgyGirl: I will be back to do Summer Camp next week - it'll be a jolly one next time tho ;-)
	12:51pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:50 <3
	12:52pm DJ GeorgyGirl: And I've got my weekend reading and podcasting sorted out thanks to MH Lee and Krys-O :-)
	12:52pm DJ Babs: Thank you for a wonderful set of music. This was DELIGHTFUL!
	12:53pm MHLee: jfinstein.wixsite.com... I'm sure this is the exact one I went to
	12:53pm Krys O.: Have you ever heard of the Smoke Fairies? They are from Chichester.
	12:53pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ DJ Babs @12:52 Thank you! I knew you'd love this one :-)
	12:53pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:53 <3
	12:53pm MHLee: ↳ Krys O. @12:53 New to me
	12:54pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @12:53 That definitely rings a bell!! Chichester isn't that far from here :-)
	12:56pm Krys O.: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @12:54 They opened for Bryan Ferry and had an album on Third Man. Lovely dark & folky blues music.
	12:56pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @12:56 I will definitely check them out :-)
	12:56pm MHLee: This is definitely a go back and relisten episode
	12:56pm Krys O.: Thanks, Mason and Georgy!
	12:57pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:56 This was so much fun to do :-) We make a great team!
	12:57pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @12:56 Thank you, dear Krys-O! <3
	12:57pm Krys O.: Ooh, I just thought of another obscure gem of a band, Crispy Ambulance. They were on Factory.
	12:57pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @12:57 That has to be one of the best band names ever :-)
	12:58pm David The Splatter: Thank you, GG and Lee. I'll catch this again in the archives for anything I missed.
	12:58pm DJ GeorgyGirl: The Smoke Fairies look very familiar. I might have seen them in an in-store in brighton.
	12:58pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ David The Splatter @12:58 Thank you, lovely David! <3
	12:58pm WR: Excellent episode and more links in the playlist comments than can explore in one weekend. A program for repeated listening.
	12:59pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ WR @12:58 Thank you, lovely WR! <3
	11:40am Paper Kosmonaut: ...Dungeonsynth? The genres people come up with these days... (-: Just like the Albion show GG did some years back, this show too very much appeals to my small but active mystic side. I thoroughly enjoyed it, listening back in the archives. Thanks, MHLee and GG!

Summer Camp: Playlist from November 9, 2024

An eclectic selection of musical s’mores from around the virtual campfire will be presented each week by a rotating cast of DJs. Summer has never been so campy.

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November 9, 2024: Weird Albion: MH Lee & DJGG

"Landscape ghosts that had lain unseen for Millennia suddenly reappeared ..."
(Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey On Foot)

Join MH Lee and DJ GG for a Saturday stroll to the Edgelands, where the urban and the rural blur together ...

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Artist	Track	Comments	Approx. start time
Disemballerina	La Folia "La Folia" by "Disemballerina"	DJ GG is reading from "Edgelands" by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Midwinter	Scarborough Fair "Scarborough Fair" by "Midwinter"		0:04:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Widow's Weeds	The Corn Queen "The Corn Queen" by "Widow's Weeds"		0:06:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Thorsten Schmidt	Hereford Wake End Titles		0:09:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Green Mistletoe	Tuatha "Tuatha" by "Green Mistletoe"		0:10:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Rowan Amber Mill	The Witch's Lament		0:12:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
:novemthree:	To Breathe In The Trees		0:16:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Meic Stevens	Roedd Gennyf I Gariad		0:22:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Robin Williamson	Rends-Moi Demain		0:25:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Strawbs	Witchwood "Witchwood" by "Strawbs"		0:27:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Devil's Interval	Long Lankin "Long Lankin" by "The Devil's Interval"		0:31:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Robin Williamson	The Dancing Of The Lord Of Weir		0:36:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Trees	Glasgerion "Glasgerion" by "Trees"		0:41:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Current 93 (feat Shirley Collins)	Idumæa		0:46:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Allysen Callery With Mother Bear	Death Skull		0:49:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Comus	Drip Drip "Drip Drip" by "Comus"		0:53:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Hare And The Moon	O Death "O Death" by "The Hare And The Moon"		1:04:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Trees	The Great Silkie "The Great Silkie" by "Trees"		1:11:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Roy Harper	Highgate Cemetery "Highgate Cemetery" by "Roy Harper"		1:16:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Donovan	Bert's Blues "Bert's Blues" by "Donovan"		1:18:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Rowan : Morrison	Ghosts Set Free "Ghosts Set Free" by "Rowan : Morrison"		1:22:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Trees	Lady Margaret "Lady Margaret" by "Trees"		1:25:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Donovan	Voyage Into The Golden Screen		1:32:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Big Eyes Family Players & Friends	Stretched On Your Grave		1:35:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Stonehenge	The Inferno "The Inferno" by "Stonehenge"		1:40:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nøkken & The Grim	Nøkkens Sang Om Elven		1:43:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Sun Also Rises	Death "Death" by "The Sun Also Rises"		1:47:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Daona	Reynardine "Reynardine" by "Daona"		1:54:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	10:48am DJ GeorgyGirl: Hi, gang! <3
	10:52am MHLee: Soon
	10:53am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @10:52 Hello, lovely! :-)
	10:56am MHLee: ↳ Song: "La Folia" by "Disemballerina" I've interviewed this band
	10:56am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @10:56 I love this track :-)
	10:57am DJ GeorgyGirl: Let me put some food out :-) novoxinc.com...
	11:00am DJ GeorgyGirl: Here we go!
	11:01am WR: Hello DJ GG and MHLee.
	11:01am DJ GeorgyGirl: I'm going to get myself a drink - today feels like a hot chocolate day to me :-)
	11:01am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ WR @11:01 WR! Hello, my lovely :-)
	11:01am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ WR @11:01 I've put a buffet table out so do help yourself <3
	11:02am DJ GeorgyGirl: Right, got my hot chocolate <3 realfood.tesco.com...
	11:02am DJ GeorgyGirl: It is freezing today in the UK
	11:03am Krys O.: Hey
	11:03am MHLee: It's 50F here so like Fall weather for once
	11:03am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @11:03 Hello, my lovely! :-)
	11:04am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:03 It was humid here and hot and then hot and then hot and then ... freezing. No transition, no warning, no nothing. Lol
	11:04am DJ GeorgyGirl: One minute I was in a t-shirt and the next a thick jumper!
	11:05am DJ GeorgyGirl: Today's show feels VERY Autumnal and I am totally here for that :-)
	11:06am MHLee: ↳ Song: "Scarborough Fair" by "Midwinter" This is such a dark recording, The cavernous echo does something.
	11:06am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Song: "Scarborough Fair" by "Midwinter" The harmonies on this are truly outstanding <3
	11:06am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:06 It really does!!!
	11:07am MHLee: ↳ Song: "Scarborough Fair" by "Midwinter" I've listened to this one a lot this year.
	11:07am DJ GeorgyGirl: When I was editing today's show I kept thinking, "Oh - THIS show is really special" <3
	11:07am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:07 It definitely fits the season :-)
	11:08am MHLee: It's very cinematic. I feel like I'm at the climax of a movie.
	11:08am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:07 Thank you for introducing me to some extraordinary new music :-)
	11:08am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:08 Yes!!! What a perfect description!
	11:09am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Song: "The Corn Queen" by "Widow's Weeds" The vibe on this is magnificent
	11:11am DJ GeorgyGirl: "Nerdistan" made me chuckle :-)
	11:11am Roger: Love this! thank you!
	11:12am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Roger @11:11 Hello, my lovely!!! :-) What a lovely show you did just now - I loved it <3
	11:12am MHLee: ↳ Song: "Tuatha" by "Green Mistletoe" Ohio is like that
	11:13am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:12 I'm enjoying the book so much, I have to say - highly recommended!
	11:13am MHLee: I'll suggest it to the book club
	11:14am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:13 <3
	11:15am MHLee: This town is odd because the weird places where the town ends tend to have abandoned graveyards
	11:16am MHLee: The still used graveyard separates neighborhoods too
	11:16am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:15 Ooooooooo!!! That makes me want to visit!
	11:16am DJ GeorgyGirl: I mean, also to say hello and have tea, but you know what I mean :-)
	11:17am MHLee: There's an old potter's field few people are aware of that people stumble across
	11:17am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:17 I am LOVING this!!
	11:18am MHLee: Actually, my hometown has another fun place... the Peninsula.. the newspaper is printed there... basically before i was born the city tore down the bridge to get there and said they'd build another
	11:19am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:18 And they never did? That is WILD :-)
	11:19am MHLee: They never did. To get there you have to ford a creek or go up a tall, steep hill, which has never been developed and has an old graveyard on top
	11:20am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:19 I'm forming a picture of this place in my head :-)
	11:20am DJ GeorgyGirl: I love how they just went, "Nope!"
	11:21am DJ GeorgyGirl: Technically Portsmouth, where I was born, is a peninsula. There's one motorway that takes you in and out of the city. Every time there's a hard winter snow you're basically trapped there.
	11:21am DJ GeorgyGirl: The only other way you can get there is via ferry from the neighbouring town of Gosport on the mainland.
	11:22am DJ GeorgyGirl: Portsmouth was built for one purpose only, and that was war. hence the difficulty of actually getting there ;-)
	11:23am MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:20 Apparently it's more like one cemetery they split into three and like bits of it are owned by the city but the city seems to be unaware they own it
	11:23am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:23 So does that mean that some of it is overgrown and such? That must be wildly creepy at night!
	11:24am MHLee: Some years ago a sign was erected calling this now cut-off section of Peninsula Cemetery the Manchester Cemetery and has caused a lot of confusion over the years. There was indeed a cemetery in the Manchester area but it was called the Old Catholic Cemetery, and its location was down the hill from Peninsula Cemetery.
	11:24am NotARealDoctor: Hello DJ GeorgyGirl! I live quite near a different Portsmouth in an area that similarly exists almost entirely for the purposes of war. Building warships, docking warships, and recently (within the past 3/4 century) war planes as well. War can feel quite inescapable here sometimes.
	11:25am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:24 Has anyone ever written a book about the city?
	11:25am WR: Hi N A R D.
	11:25am NotARealDoctor: I am rather digging the vibes you're laying down this morning
	11:25am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ NotARealDoctor @11:24 Hello, my lovely!! Yep, I know that feeling well! Naval yards and docks and so on as far as the eye can see
	11:26am MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:23 There are so many of those. The Dreamer Memorial in PA is a giant black obelisk in the middle of no where... put out there in 1930s... the area around it is owned by a fracking company now and it's disappeared behind some pinwes
	11:26am MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:25 I'm sure. We have a blog even weelunk.com...
	11:26am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:26 A giant black obelisk?? I am so intrigued by all of this :-)
	11:26am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:26 That's my weekend ready sorted :-) Thank you! <3
	11:27am WR: So I am speculating that you did the reading selection and reading and editing, MHLee did the music selections?
	11:27am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ WR @11:27 It's pretty much 50/50 between us :-)
	11:27am DJ GeorgyGirl: A full-on collaboration! :-)
	11:28am DJ GeorgyGirl: Put it this way - if it's an old record, it was me, and the new ones are MH Lee :-)
	11:28am MHLee: There's probably three abandoned cemetery in the Wheeling area
	11:29am MHLee: The name is corruption of Delaware for "place of head" because some heads were left on spkes there in the 1700s
	11:29am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:28 It's the concept of abandoned cemetery that gets me. There's something so poignant about that
	11:30am MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:29 In Europe, I imagine you keep throwingbodies in
	11:30am NotARealDoctor: ↳ WR @11:25 Good morning WR, good to see you
	11:31am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:29 WOAH! A lot of that went on here, too. I found out on Ancestry that I'm descended from Robert Kett, and his head ended up on a spike on the gates of Norwich. I got rebel blood in me ;-)
	11:31am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:30 Yeah - that happens a lot too. Lack of space and all that.
	11:32am DJ GeorgyGirl: IIRC he's my 15th great grandfather or something like that :-) en.wikipedia.org...
	11:34am DJ GeorgyGirl: He was a landowner who actually listened to his serfs and said, "Bollocks to this! Let's start a rebellion!" Needless to say, it didn't end well ...
	11:34am NotARealDoctor: ↳ Song: "Long Lankin" by "The Devil's Interval" Oh heavens that accordion is giving me shivers. Love this.
	11:34am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ NotARealDoctor @11:34 Isn't it wonderful? This is one of MH's picks :-)
	11:35am MHLee: ↳ NotARealDoctor @11:34 This is a horrific old folk song. I have a record of like 30 versions from old Appalachian women
	11:35am NotARealDoctor: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:34 Cheers to MH then! 🍻
	11:35am DJ GeorgyGirl: <nervously checks the time> Yep - we're past the half hour mark. Phew! ;-)
	11:35am NotARealDoctor: ↳ MHLee @11:35 Oh that's wonderful! What a record find!
	11:38am MHLee: www.findagrave.com... Another abandoned cemetery... the family that owns the house next to it takes care of it but there's no church or cemetery administration
	11:39am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:38 If the photo's anything to go by the family are doing a good job but I imagine it's a massive undertaking (pardon the unintended pun!)
	11:40am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:38 I imagine you'd like to visit here - it's on my list :-) en.wikipedia.org...
	11:40am MHLee: I worked with the person cited there. He wrote stuff about when he was 18. We had to dig down to set stones back into place
	11:41am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:40 You did good work there <3
	11:42am MHLee: There's a pioneer cemetery in the middle of a local park... it's really odd... the city building is in the middle of the woods rather than city... behind it a park with some random graves every once in a while then you get to the bottom and you can see a housing development
	11:42am DJ GeorgyGirl: Today's show is making me REALLY want a roast dinner in a small pub somewhere overlooking the sea. :-) I may have to do that tomorrow!
	11:43am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:42 Does anyone know why the muincipal building is so far out? or is it just one of those things?
	11:46am MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:43 It's really strange but technically it's in front of the city park
	11:46am MHLee: We also have the grave that uninterred itself locally
	11:46am DJ GeorgyGirl: Many years ago I was in the wilds of Buckinghamshire and out in the woods on a walk. Right in the middle of dense, DENSE forest was a tiny clearing, literally a small patch in the middle of a circle of close, tall trees. And right smack dab in the centre of it was a burnt out car. My friends and I stood there for ages trying to figure out how on earth the car got there. I still have no idea and it was BIZARRE.
	11:47am MHLee: www.wboy.com...
	11:47am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:46 Okay you can't leave it at that!! It "uninterred itself"?? I need more details :-)
	11:47am MHLee: ↳ Song: "Idumæa" by "Current 93 (feat Shirley Collins)" I love this one so much. Marc Almond is on this album too
	11:48am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:47 WOAH!!!
	11:48am MHLee: Charleston Gazette, WV. 5/14/1976 It was discovered July 1, 1975, by Glenn Pierce, the aging caretaker of Oak Grove Cemetery in Morgantown. The sod was pushed up about eight inches, leaving a dark hole on one side. Pierce hesitantly focused the beam of a flashlight inside, then jumped back at the sight of a concrete vault with a broken lid about six feet down. Pierce's superiors were inclined to put it down as vandalism, but when Morgantown police could find no shovel marks or any other signs of tampering, the discovery took on new dimensions. It was obvious the ground had been pushed up from the inside. A gas company inspector could find no evidence of methane or sewer gas. A funeral director suggested gas from a decaying body might be the answer. Looking at the grave marker standing at an angle a few feet away, however, seemed to dispel this. It indicated the occupant was 3-year-old Harry Spitz, who had died in 1912. His body would have been too small and it was long past the time of gaseous decay. Morgantown Police Chief Bennie Palmer and Lt. William Hughes looked on while diggers hauled up the vault and casket. The concrete vault came out in seven pieces. The wooden casket was intact. The cloth covering the lid was rotting but there was no signs of mildew or dampness. The stem of a flower and a metal name plate lay undisturbed in a small indentation in the lid. Suspecting a clue might be inside the casket itself, Pierce unlatched the lid and cautiously opened it with a shovel. Inside was the surprisingly well-preserved body of a child. His long, blond hair glowed in the noonday sun. “He was almost as perfect as the day they put him there,” Pierce remarked. On his chest was a flower stem and a metal piece with the inscription “Our Darling”. At the feet was a black and white teddy bear. Monongalia County records indicate the child died of cholera. Dr. Otis Fansler, pathologist and head of the morgue at University Medical Center, wondered if anerobic organisms had survived and possibly infected the onlookers. Fansler took skin samples from the hands, throat and nose of the body and turned them into cultures. He found them to be sterile. The same day the body and casket were placed in a new vault and returned to the ground. After geologists discounted earth displacement, Mrs. Marion Stone, secretary-treasurer of Oak Grove Cemetery Assn., declared, "I think it was an act of God." News of the phenomenon brought out droves of curious passersby, who negotiated the narrow cemetery road to stare at the grave.' Fundamentalists opened Bibles to Thessalonians 4:16-17 and proclaimed the explanation: “For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; And the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.” A woman psychic from Pittsburgh, Pa., declared a love bond existed between the child and his mother and that his love had burst from the grave and rushed to his mother. The 91-year-old mother still lives in a nursing hone at Terra Alta, Preston.
	11:48am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:47 I do love me a bit of Current 93 :-) I went to his house in Hastings many moons ago. Not to actually visit, mind you, but to stand outside it :-)
	11:49am DJ GeorgyGirl: "A woman psychic from Pittsburgh, Pa., declared a love bond existed between the child and his mother and that his love had burst from the grave and rushed to his mother. The 91-year-old mother still lives in a nursing hone at Terra Alta, Preston." - that just sent shivers up my spine.
	11:50am MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:49 There's some weird cryptic stuff with it
	11:51am DJ GeorgyGirl: Bloody hell - it's not even 5 pm here and it's already dark outside. We are now officially in Autumn.
	11:51am DJ GeorgyGirl: It's dark outside and it's raining and cold - definitely fitting the vibe of today's show :-)
	11:51am MHLee: ↳ Song: "Death Skull" by "Allysen Callery With Mother Bear" I got a poster for this album... has a 70s movie poster vibe
	11:52am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:51 Do you have a link? I'd love to see that :-)
	11:52am MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:52 f4.bcbits.com...
	11:52am MHLee: This was a chance find on bandcamp I think
	11:52am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:52 Excellent Amicus vibes there!!
	11:53am DJ GeorgyGirl: You could probably play all of today's show over "A Field in England" and it would fit ;-)
	11:54am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Song: "Drip Drip" by "Comus" I chose to narrate over most of this ... for obviosu reasons. Don't want to put anyone off their cornflakes ;-)
	11:54am MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:53 A Field in England is so wild. I have a RPG campaign based on it I purchased I want to play so badly
	11:55am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:54 You are literally the only other person I know who likes that movie as much as I do. Lol I think it's utter genius :-)
	11:55am DJ GeorgyGirl: " A Field in England" is acid folk in cinematic form :-)
	11:56am DJ GeorgyGirl: And they shot it in 12 freaking days.
	11:56am MHLee: Do the rust belt and the British industrial wasteland share a vibe?
	11:57am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Song: "Drip Drip" by "Comus" A jolly little ditty about necrophilia. Lol
	11:57am MHLee: Also WV has the coal ghost town abandonedonline.net...
	11:58am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:56 That's a good question. I would say probably yes. The ghosts of impinging industry and downfall and all that. Maybe the US versions are more desert like? The UK ones tend to be more abandoned industry in the middle of fields and forests.
	11:58am MHLee: Coal ghost town in a genre of place not a single place
	11:58am DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:57 I've bookmarked that for a closer read :-)
	11:59am DJ GeorgyGirl: Ghost towns fascinate me.
	11:59am MHLee: www.stavislost.com...
	12:00pm MHLee: Kaymoor is fascinating
	12:00pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @11:59 This is FABULOUS!!!
	12:02pm MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @11:58 In several cases the towns existed as lumber towns but when they were no longer necessary the B&O railroad burned them down
	12:02pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:02 It's crazy to me that we place so much stock in home and city - and yet they can disappear at the whim of trends and capitalism.
	12:03pm MHLee: Some cases there was a single old woman who continued to live in the town which was now cut off from civilization
	12:04pm MHLee: www.abandonedcountry.com...
	12:04pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:03 The older I get, the more I relaise that I'd probably be that woman ;-) Shotgun in hand, strange sculptures in my garden, nine million cats. "GET OFF MY LAND!" :-)
	12:07pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Song: "O Death" by "The Hare And The Moon" That cinematic swell in the background is incredible
	12:07pm MHLee: The Grey Malkin has a lot of influence in today's picks. He's significant in the Folk Horror Revival movement and worked with The Hare and Moon and Widows Weeds
	12:07pm MHLee: I found he has cover of lucifer sam
	12:08pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:07 He's amazing! I follow him on IG :-)
	12:10pm DJ GeorgyGirl: Me reading this section over the tolling of the bells was complete chance. I love it when that happens ;-)
	12:11pm MHLee: Lol. In Paw Paw there is a huge abandoned tunnel. It's soo long partly through you can't see the light on the other end.
	12:12pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:11 If that's not a potent metaphor, I don't know what it is! Lol
	12:12pm MHLee: Paths on either side of the tunnel exist. We took on and continue to follow it until we came out in a neighborhood with a sign saying the park is this way,
	12:13pm MHLee: www.nps.gov...
	12:13pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:12 Whether it's the sea or the land, we all get a swat from the universe from time to time, I think. "Oh, so you think you know where you're going, eh? Think again." Lol
	12:14pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:13 "Weep holes"!!! How evocative is THAT? :-)
	12:15pm MHLee: There's the idea of a pagan, weird WV. I think it's connected with the ideas behind the Old Gods of Appalachia podcast. I haven't listened to it though.
	12:16pm MHLee: The PNW seems to radiate weird folk energy
	12:16pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:15 Ooo! Do you have a link for that? I'd love to listen :-)
	12:16pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:16 The PNW is DEFINITELY full of that vibe!
	12:17pm MHLee: www.oldgodsofappalachia.com
	12:17pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Song: "Highgate Cemetery" by "Roy Harper" I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Roy Harper's voice is balm to my very soul <3
	12:17pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:17 Thank you :-)
	12:18pm MHLee: ↳ Song: "Highgate Cemetery" by "Roy Harper" There are cemeteries in Wheeling with 4 times the number of the living
	12:19pm MHLee: www.flickr.com...
	12:19pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:18 I plan to do a tour one day of the grand old Victorian cemeteries of London. The Grand Seven? Something like that :-)
	12:20pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:19 What a gorgeous building!
	12:20pm DJ GeorgyGirl: Magnificent Seven! Of course ;-) en.wikipedia.org...
	12:21pm MHLee: We have the Mt Wood cemetery... mostly Jewish and falling off the mountain
	12:21pm MHLee: We have the overlook, a friend of mine actually uncovered the history behind
	12:22pm DJ GeorgyGirl: I met a chap once in Barnes cemetery in London. He was a semi-official chronicler of graves. Fascinating man. He told me about gravestone and statue folklore - for example, headless statues in cemeteries aren't necessarily vandalism. They tended to be built that way as a symbol of enlightenment.
	12:22pm MHLee: www.archivingwheeling.org...
	12:22pm DJ GeorgyGirl: I am enjoying this conversation so much :-)
	12:23pm DJ Babs: Hi Darlings! Just popping in for a hello! I am sorry I'm not so chatty lately...things are a bit craaaazy here ATM, lol
	12:23pm MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @12:20 A mausoleum
	12:23pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ DJ Babs @12:23 BABS!! Hello, darling, gorgeous Babs!! <3
	12:24pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:23 And ... the whole history of the concept of intercolumniation which is one of my pet subjects :-)
	12:26pm DJ GeorgyGirl: Basically, a Belgian abbe in the middle ages realised that on architectural plans, columns represent the dots of musical notes. Intercolumniation is the music that buildings make. So, a mausoleum would have few dense doric columns - or a funeral dirge in musical form. Whereas an opera has many corinthian columns (and some half ones) so it resembles complex and light music :-)
	12:27pm DJ GeorgyGirl: Even the humble front door with its two columns framing the door makes music. "Bing! Bong!" It's signalling hello :-)
	12:27pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @12:26 *opera house
	12:29pm DJ GeorgyGirl: Opera houses tend to group columns in threes as well so you have a waltz tempo.
	12:29pm DJ GeorgyGirl: It blew my mind when I first read that :-)
	12:30pm MHLee: The Catholic cemetery across the street from that mausoleum has freaked me out before. The chapel has pale green light at night... and there's a a madonna or something which looks a bride... if it's a clear day you see it... but once I went by it in the morning and everything was so foggy and you could only make out her.
	12:30pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:30 That would have freaked me out too!!!
	12:32pm MHLee: I thought it was a ghost, then just a weird woman, then realized later it was the Madonna
	12:32pm DJ GeorgyGirl: On the train journey between London and Brighton there's an area in Surrey which is fairly uninhabited, just a church up on the hill. At night it's almost pitch dark out there and all you can see is this enormous illuminated cross on top of the church that looks like it's floating in the sky. If you're half asleep on the train it can give you quite the jolt!
	12:32pm MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @12:30 You'd love some of the school houses here
	12:32pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:32 I mean, any of those would make me jump!
	12:32pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:32 I totally would!!
	12:32pm MHLee: www.flickr.com...
	12:34pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:32 The skating rink! <3
	12:34pm DJ GeorgyGirl: Also, some of those buildings are HUGE
	12:35pm MHLee: The local high school where i currently live is a monstrous building
	12:35pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Song: "Voyage Into The Golden Screen" by "Donovan" "Dam-ahhhsk"? Lol
	12:36pm MHLee: encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com...
	12:36pm MHLee: cmsv2-assets.apptegy.net...
	12:36pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:36 I mean ... knowing how big those balloons are ... BLIMEY!!!
	12:37pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:36 Is that a school?? It's MASSIVE!!
	12:37pm MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @12:37 Yeah and I think it has under 2,000 studnets
	12:38pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:37 You could rollerskate around that building. And by you, I mean that I would totally rollerskate around that building ;-)
	12:38pm MHLee: ↳ Song: "Stretched On Your Grave" by "The Big Eyes Family ... This is a lovely album
	12:38pm Krys O.: I've lived near cemeteries in Bloomfield, NJ for all of the 25 years I've been here. There are two nearby. One is on the other side of the Garden State Parkway highway that is two blocks away. Many cemeteries in this area are near highways.
	12:38pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:38 This song is incredible
	12:38pm Krys O.: Dealing with traffic in New Jersey can be a battle.
	12:39pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @12:38 That must be such a surreal sight to drive past!
	12:40pm MHLee: In Wheeling... near where i went to middle school... there are cemeteries on three sides... the catholic on stretches forever up the hill and the other ends are Greenwood
	12:40pm MHLee: My friend is the groundkeeper there
	12:41pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:40 I'm imagining all the personal history contained in them.
	12:41pm David The Splatter: Popping in to say hello to everyone. Been listening while doing some chores around the place.
	12:41pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ David The Splatter @12:41 Hello David, my lovely! :-)
	12:42pm MHLee: www.findagrave.com...
	12:42pm MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @12:41 Confederates, Union Vets, department store owners, river boat captains... all graves i know of personally
	12:42pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:42 Gosh, those statues are lovely <3
	12:43pm MHLee: There was a grave that had giant blown glass punchbowl
	12:43pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:42 Do you find yourself wondering about all the people there? It makes me ponder on stories when I wander around graveyards
	12:43pm Krys O.: Weird NJ magazine is dedicated to all of the local legends and unexplained oddities around the state. weirdnj.com I'm pals with the guys who run the magazine. They used to have a show on the History Channel years ago too.
	12:44pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:43 A punchbowl?? There must be a story behind that!!
	12:44pm MHLee: The bowl and grave still exist but they aren't still together i think
	12:44pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @12:43 OOOO!!! This is getting bookmarked! Thank you <3
	12:44pm MHLee: "The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum. "
	12:44pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:44 Lead crystal? That thing must weigh a ton
	12:45pm DJ GeorgyGirl: What's the name of the musical instrument that has hundreds of glass cups? Weren't they lead crystal as well?
	12:45pm Krys O.: Loads of stories on Weird NJ dealing with cemeteries: weirdnj.com...
	12:45pm DJ GeorgyGirl: What the bloody hell is it called ...
	12:45pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @12:45 I love anything like this <3
	12:45pm MHLee: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @12:43 Do people do living history things in England? You can basically annually take a tour where impersonators talk about their grave and death
	12:46pm Krys O.: The glass harmonica?
	12:46pm DJ GeorgyGirl: Armonica!! That's what it's called :-)
	12:46pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @12:46 That :-)
	12:46pm MHLee: I think I told you about the steamboat captain who didn't spill a drop of whiskey when he died
	12:46pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:45 I'm not sure about that - ghost talks for sure. There may very well be some tho. I need to investigate :-)
	12:47pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:46 Yes! You did! I love that story :-)
	12:47pm DJ GeorgyGirl: "A synthetic schoolmistress"? Did I just shade myself? Lol
	12:48pm DJ GeorgyGirl: One more track to go and then it's over to the magnificent Krys-O! I have enjoyed every single second of today's show and chat :-)
	12:49pm MHLee: That's GG and Krys O. Fun to talk about this.
	12:50pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:49 I've had a wonderful time!! Thank you so much for introducing me to this amazing music and for the wonderful conversation :-)
	12:50pm MHLee: weelunk.com... all our dead friends
	12:50pm DJ GeorgyGirl: I will be back to do Summer Camp next week - it'll be a jolly one next time tho ;-)
	12:51pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:50 <3
	12:52pm DJ GeorgyGirl: And I've got my weekend reading and podcasting sorted out thanks to MH Lee and Krys-O :-)
	12:52pm DJ Babs: Thank you for a wonderful set of music. This was DELIGHTFUL!
	12:53pm MHLee: jfinstein.wixsite.com... I'm sure this is the exact one I went to
	12:53pm Krys O.: Have you ever heard of the Smoke Fairies? They are from Chichester.
	12:53pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ DJ Babs @12:52 Thank you! I knew you'd love this one :-)
	12:53pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:53 <3
	12:53pm MHLee: ↳ Krys O. @12:53 New to me
	12:54pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @12:53 That definitely rings a bell!! Chichester isn't that far from here :-)
	12:56pm Krys O.: ↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @12:54 They opened for Bryan Ferry and had an album on Third Man. Lovely dark & folky blues music.
	12:56pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @12:56 I will definitely check them out :-)
	12:56pm MHLee: This is definitely a go back and relisten episode
	12:56pm Krys O.: Thanks, Mason and Georgy!
	12:57pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ MHLee @12:56 This was so much fun to do :-) We make a great team!
	12:57pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @12:56 Thank you, dear Krys-O! <3
	12:57pm Krys O.: Ooh, I just thought of another obscure gem of a band, Crispy Ambulance. They were on Factory.
	12:57pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ Krys O. @12:57 That has to be one of the best band names ever :-)
	12:58pm David The Splatter: Thank you, GG and Lee. I'll catch this again in the archives for anything I missed.
	12:58pm DJ GeorgyGirl: The Smoke Fairies look very familiar. I might have seen them in an in-store in brighton.
	12:58pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ David The Splatter @12:58 Thank you, lovely David! <3
	12:58pm WR: Excellent episode and more links in the playlist comments than can explore in one weekend. A program for repeated listening.
	12:59pm DJ GeorgyGirl: ↳ WR @12:58 Thank you, lovely WR! <3
	11:40am Paper Kosmonaut: ...Dungeonsynth? The genres people come up with these days... (-: Just like the Albion show GG did some years back, this show too very much appeals to my small but active mystic side. I thoroughly enjoyed it, listening back in the archives. Thanks, MHLee and GG!

Summer Camp: Playlist from November 9, 2024

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