When I Went Home
Episode 12 • When I Went Home • I went back to the old home, to Denmark and to my mother; because I just couldn't stay away any longer. SHOW NOTES ____________ When I Went Home (Excerpted from chapters 15 &…
The Little Dollar’s Christmas Journey
Episode 11 • The Little Dollar's Christmas Journey • The coupon looked for all the world like a dollar bill, except that it was so small that a baby’s hand could easily cover it. SHOW NOTES ____________ The Little Dollar's Christmas…
The Making of an American
Episode 10 • The Making of an American • We had been looking the police over by night, Roosevelt and I. We had inspected the lodging-rooms while I went over the long fight with him, and had come at last, at…
Twas Liza’s Doings
Episode 9 • Twas Liza's Doings • In those days somebody was always fighting somebody else for some fancied injury or act of bad faith in the gathering of the news. SHOW NOTES ____________ The Making of an American (excerpt…
Paolo’s Awakening
Paolo's Awakening • While the dread and uncertainty grew, a messenger ran up, out of breath. There had been a collision. The last train had run into the one preceding it, in the fog. Paolo's Awakening By Jacob Riis PAOLO sat…
Death Comes to Cat Alley
Episode 8 • Death Comes to Cat Alley • Cat Alley is a back-yard illustration of the theory of evolution. The fittest survive, and the Welsh babies were not among them. SHOW NOTES ____________ The Making of an American (excerpt…
Rover’s Last Fight
Rover's Last Fight • The house of Gabriel Dodge, a well-to-do farmer, had been sacked by thieves, who left in their trail the farmer’s murdered dog. Rover's Last Fight By Jacob Riis From Out of Mulberry Street THE little village of…
Lost Children
Episode 7 • Lost Children • It is not my fault that the one thing that is lost more persistently than any other in a large city is the very thing you would imagine to be safest of all in the…
