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The Conestoga Dilemma: Historic preservation when there is no 'thing' left.
In this episode, recorded before a live audience in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, we look at Conestoga Town through a different lens: the challenge of historic preservation without physical artifacts.…
S2E5 The Hidden Fortress: Episode 5 - Found
In this, the final episode of this series, my family discovers a new war and a new fortress in the fields of Negiuchi. The B-29 Super Fortress. Much is lost. But some things are found. And saved.
S2E4 The Hidden Fortress: Episode 4 - The Three Unifiers
For 150 years during the Sengoku Jidai, thousands of men, both distinguished and noble men, had a go at making all of Japan theirs. Three men made it happen. One was labeled a fool, another was born…
S1E3 The Hidden Fortress: Episode 3 - The New Hojo
In this episode, the poster child of the Sengoku-jidai rebrands himself and marches north - picking up three provinces, 80,000 guys, millions of barrels of rice, and a few dozen castles. One of these…
S2E2 The Hidden Fortress: Episode 2 - How did we get here?
In this episode, we look at how my 500-year-old survived both a 16th-century civil war and 20th-century bulldozers. And how one of the clues to its survival is in another field. One in Pennsylvania,…
S2E1 The Hidden Fortress: Episode 1 - Wait...what castle?
Why is there a 500 year old Samurai Castle in my yard?Negiuchi Castle stood at a turning point in the struggle for unity in medieval Japan. Once the tip of the spear of one the most powerful clan in…
Conestoga Town: Episode 22- Still Here: Part 2
We conclude this series and season with the answer to the question 'What happened to the people the rivers are name after'—the second part of our interview with Michael Mantooth of the Conestoga…
S1E21 Conestoga Town: Episode 21- Still Here
In which the question that started this whole series - 'What happened to the people the rivers are named after " is finally answered. By the people the rivers are named after.
S1E20 Conestoga Town: Episode 20- Gandestoga and Modern Memory
In this, our next-to-last episode, we get ‘meta’ and look at the story of the ‘Paxtons and Conestoga’ as just that—a story. We also examine how that story has been retold, manipulated, appropriated,…
S1E19 Conestoga Town: Episode 19 - The New Frontier
In which we see how the impact of the Paxton Boys' violence and the complicity of the colonial elite extended far beyond the immediate victims, shaping the political landscape of colonial America and…
S1 Conestoga Town: Trailer
Conestoga Town is an opportunity to delve into a hidden chapter of American history, one that challenges our understanding of the nation's origins and the very foundation upon which it was built. A…
S1E18 Conestoga Town: Episode 18 - The Accomplice
Over this series, we've uncovered many hidden, unexpected, and surprising things. Today we get the most head-spinning of all. Because the Paxtons, in their wake, kicked off another war. A war that…
S1E17 Conestoga Town: Episode 17 - Declarations
In this episode, we look at two of the foundational treatises of America. One explores the rights of men the other explores the justification for exterminating Native Americans. The two documents…
Conestoga Town: Episode 16 - The March on the Capital
After destroying Conestoga Town and massacring its inhabitants a new larger Paxton army rises in the backcountry of Lancaster County and marches east over frozen fields to destroy Indians sheltered…
Conestoga Town: Episode 15 - Shikata ga nai
In this episode, we see that- it didn't have to be like this. Not all powerful men seek to make their massacres seem just. And that the brave can seek justice and are swayed by mercy.
Conestoga Town: Episode 14 - Who Knew
Evidence not seen for nearly 300 years is discovered in a long-forgotten archive. Evidence that reveals an answer to the question of why the Conestoga was murdered, who knew about it even before it…
S1E13 Conestoga Town: Episode 13 - Response
In the wake of the destruction of the Conestoga Town community, Native Americans react with outrage; in the Settler community, women and men of letters respond with shock and horror. Among the…
S1E12 Conestoga Town: Episode 12 - The Massacre of the Conestoga
The Paxton militia, believing that all Indians are now the enemy, launch a genocidal campaign and ride to Conestoga Town.
S1E11 Conestoga Town: Episode 11 - 1763 and The (first) American Revolution - Pontiac’s War
1763: English America gets a continent. Native America launches a war of independence. And on the Frontier between the two, pacifist Quakers fund an army. The Paxton Rangers.
S1E10 Conestoga Town: Episode 10 - The (first) First World War
The first, First World War begins—not in Sarajevo, but in Pennsylvania—when a young Virginia Plantation owner and part-time Army officer walks into a room full of gunpowder with a lit match. And sets…
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