Episode 20: Magic for Marigold by L. M. Montgomery with Calandra Lindstadt

What Amy is reading -  (Mercy Thompson, #9) by Patricia Briggs: https://www.patriciabriggs.com/books/ 

• Here is the Book 9 cover image: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/33805f_41aeb1789f9a4447942d8899377529fb~mv2.png 

• So, after the US election on November 54th, we decided to record a Very Special Post-Election Episode on November 6th, released on November 7th, in case anyone needed a bit of help: https://www.findinggoodbones.com/episodes/episode-19-a-very-special-day-after-the-2024-election-episode-with-kate-and-amy  

• Here is the Book 3 Cover image from Episode 18: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/33805f_76b81ef217b244a1bdf01c49a28a38ae~mv2.png 

• Apparently tramp stamps are specifically defined as “a tattoo on a woman’s lower back” (THANKS, PATRIARCHY). The term arose sometime in the mid to late 1990s, and the first recorded use is the 2004 SNL sketch “Turlinton’s lower back tattoo remover”: https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/turlingtons-lower-back-tattoo-remover/2750427 

What Kate is reading - Here, Now: Essays by Michelle Suzanne Mirsky: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147843/here-now/ 

Meet this week’s guest: Calandra Lindstadt lives in colorful Colorado with her partner and dog. She is an enthusiastic outdoors-gal who loves to bike, hike and swim. She has recently gotten into refinishing old furniture much to the horror of her partner who is now wading through piles of scratched wobbly mid century modernish “garbage” (his words!) at every turn. They will all be magnificent as soon as she gets a little more time to 

So the name Calandra has many sources of origin according to the internet, some say Greek, some Italian, some French, some Irish??? and means singing bird, or lark, or skylark, or lovely one. So, many options and they’re all great!

“You can call me anything you want, just don’t call me late for dinner” is a joke that is traced back to the United States during the 1830s.

• Why did no one make the joke “Don’t Cali me late for dinner” here??? What a lost opportunity.

Magic for Marigold is L M. Montgomery’s 14th novel to be published. As described in the podcast, the book follows the early life of Marigold Lesley, named after the doctor who saved her life. 

• The first edition was published in 1929, so not exactly “one million” years ago, but knocking on a century.

• You can read Calandra’s full selection here: https://33805ff3-9040-4466-a231-b60f37348376.usrfiles.com/ugd/33805f_2458ba28f773496993a72fafe29838ff.pdf 

Lucy Maud Montgomery, published under her pen name L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author at the turn of the 20th century. Born in 1874, she began writing early in her life. She obtained her teaching license at Prince of Wales College, then studied literature at Dalhousie University. She worked as a teacher for several years on Prince Edward Island, but didn’t enjoy teaching, continuing mostly because it offered her a fair amount of time to write. Her first short stories were published in magazines and newspaper beginning in 1897, and she would publish over 100 by the time her first novel, Anne of Green Gables, was published in 1908 to immediate success. This series became her most popular works, though throughout her career she published 20 novels, 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays.

The full Anne of Green Gables series is as follows:

• Anne of Green Gables (1908)

• Anne of Avonlea (1909)

• Anne of the Island (1915)

• Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)

• Anne's House of Dreams (1917)

• Anne of Ingleside (1939)

• Rainbow Valley (1919)

• Rilla of Ingleside (1921) 

Gilbert Blythe is an antagonist turned friend in the first novel, Anne of Green Gables. When we first meet him, he is aware of his good looks and popularity with the girls on the island and in school. He tries to get the attention of Anne Shirley, who is having NONE of it. He then proceeds to call her “Carrots” and pull on one of her braids. Anne was quite sensitive about her hair color, and famously stood up, turned back to him, and broke her slate over his head. She did not forgive him for years, even after he rescued her from a pond. They eventually become friends, then marry, and have seven children.

There have been many Anne of Green Gables adaptations but this podcast only recognizes the 1985 CBC / PBS adaptation with Megan Follows.

According to their website, “The University Interscholastic League (UIL) was created by The University of Texas at Austin to provide leadership and guidance to public school debate and athletic teachers. Since 1910 the UIL has grown into the largest inter-school organization of its kind in the world.”

While post-COVID homeschooling figures in the US are around 3.7 million kids, in 1990 that number was 250,000 to 350,000 children nationwide, rising to 700,000 to 750,000 in 1995–96.

Prince Edward Island is, in fact, an island. It’s the smallest Province in Canada, originally the traditional lands of the Mi'kmaq First Nations who named it Epekwitk - cradled on the waves.First colonized by the French as Isle St-Jean (part of their Acadia settlement), it was taken over by the British after the Seven Years' War in 1763. First part of the Nova Scotia colony, the island split to form its own colony and was renamed again, this time after Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. 

• Green Gables is a real place, once owned by relatives of Montgomery, in Cavendish, an unincorporated rural community on the island.

Cali’s mom and grandfather with the pockets out picture: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/33805f_fb5e253770264ed9849af980cbf08a4e~mv2.jpeg 

Cali and her maternal grandmother: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/33805f_bac3caafe93b48f992ac71178a07dd03~mv2.jpeg 

Cali and Loraine: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/33805f_9e0fc72a28e745359461a9a9b25a0d10~mv2.jpeg 

Our recommendations to Anne:

• Kate’s selection - Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder:  

• Amy’s selection - Letting You Go by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: 

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