Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why Christmas trees are secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources and for this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:
- Katie Goldin on Twitter
- @ProBirdRights
- ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- native-land.ca
- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- The Battle For Christmas: A Cultural History Of America’s Most Cherished Holiday by Stephen Nissenbaum
- Christmas In Germany: A Cultural History by Joe Perry
- Is a Real Fir Better Than Fake? Probably, But Don’t Forget the Forest for the Christmas Trees. (The New York Times / Wirecutter)
- How Christmas Tree Farms Can Help Wildlife (The New York Times)
- After the Holidays, Christmas Trees Have More Work to Do (Atlas Obscura)
- Your Christmas Tree Could Be Recycled Into Sugar (Atlas Obscura)
- The Estonian Island Where Christmas Trees Become Soda (Atlas Obscura)
- You Can Eat Your Christmas Tree. Here’s How to Do It (Smithsonian Magazine)
- The 15 States That Produce the Most Christmas Trees (Mental Floss)
- 2022 Census Of Agriculture (United States Department Of Agriculture)
- Stump-Grown Christmas Trees Are the Gift That Keeps on Giving (Smithsonian Magazine)
- The Infinite Christmas Tree: How to Cut Your Tree So it Will Grow Again (Modern Farmer)
- The history of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, a NYC holiday tradition (6sqft New York City)
- The history of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree spans all the way back to 1931 (The Today Show)
- Don’t Blame Cities’ Giant Christmas Trees for Being Droopy and Bald (Atlas Obscura)
- Rome’s ‘Mangy’ Christmas Tree Is a Sorry Sight: ‘It Has Clearly Been Traumatized’ (The New York Times)
- Toilet Brushes Are Partly to Thank for Artificial Christmas Trees (Atlas Obscura)
- Oh—Tannenbaum…: Christmas trees have served as political lightning rods for nearly as long as Americans have been decorating them. (The Paris Review)
- writing for The Conversation dot com by Troy Bickham, professor of history at Texas A&M University — we’re not listing the article title because it’s a bit inaccurate.
- The Act of Settlement (Royal.uk)
- The Arrival of the House of Hanover in Britain (The Royal Mint)
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