{"id":5317,"date":"2017-04-18T14:59:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T14:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2021-01-29T20:07:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:07:37","slug":"historically-yours-podcast-episode-2-heroic-deeds-with-liz-riordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2017\/04\/18\/historically-yours-podcast-episode-2-heroic-deeds-with-liz-riordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Historically Yours Podcast Episode 2: Heroic Deeds with Liz Riordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5279 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/04\/Logo3-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/04\/Logo3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/04\/Logo3-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/04\/Logo3-115x115.png 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Historically Yours is brought to you by the wacky folks who wander in and out of the University of Iowa Special Collections. Your host is Colleen Theisen, today&#8217;s guest is Liz Riordan.<\/p>\n<p>Our theme music was composed by Will Riordan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/historicallyyours.podbean.com\/mf\/play\/j2z8w4\/podcast2_final.mp3\">Download this episode (right click and save)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/historicallyyours.podbean.com\/\">Podbean<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/historically-yours-from-university-iowa-special-collections\/id1223757794?mt=2\">iTunes<\/a>, or Pocket Casts. Let us know where we should syndicate.)<\/p>\n<p>Do you know anything about the letter from today&#8217;s episode? About the clipping mentioned in blue pencil on the letter? About the Park Theater or Mr. Smith?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Write to us!<\/p>\n<p>Historically Yours<\/p>\n<p>c\/o Colleen Theisen<\/p>\n<p>University of Iowa Special Collections<\/p>\n<p>100 Main Library<\/p>\n<p>Iowa City, IA 52242<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Letter from this episode:<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Barrett to James H. Smith Esq.<\/p>\n<p>September 26, 1873.<\/p>\n<p>MsL B274<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5318\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/04\/MslB274-746x1024.jpg\" alt=\"I beg leave to express my admiration for your gallant coduct in extinguishing the fire at the Park Theatre last night. I am certain that but for your gallantry and courageous risk of your own life the theater with its contents and perhaps many valuable lives would have been lost. I can never forget the spirit with which you thrust your body into the burning space and choked the consuming gas until the danger was past, such deeds illuminate monuments of human heroism. Truly your friend, Lawrence Barrett.\" width=\"620\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/04\/MslB274-746x1024.jpg 746w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/04\/MslB274-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/04\/MslB274-768x1055.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/04\/MslB274.jpg 874w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historically Yours is brought to you by the wacky folks who wander in and out of the University of Iowa Special Collections. Your host is Colleen Theisen, today&#8217;s guest is Liz Riordan. Our theme music was composed by Will Riordan. Download this episode (right click and save) &nbsp; (Subscribe on Podbean, iTunes, or Pocket Casts.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2017\/04\/18\/historically-yours-podcast-episode-2-heroic-deeds-with-liz-riordan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Historically Yours Podcast Episode 2: Heroic Deeds with Liz Riordan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":5318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[449,456,454,457,447,455],"syndication":[435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6193,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions\/6193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}