Episode 107 (Roots and Branches and Wind-Borne Seeds)

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Music

• We open with Mary Lattimore's Jimmy V. I love Mary Lattimore.
• We hit Hatian guitarist Frantz Casseus' Lullaby from 1954 a few times.
• We hear Drifting, by Matthew Robert Cooper.
• And A Fool Persists by Infinite Body.
• The two piano things are Open Window - For Piano by Yuichiro Fujimoto, and Pale by Akira Kosemura.
• We also hear Gareth Dickson's Friday Night Fever for a bit.

Notes

• I learned about Ynes while flipping idly through the 1974 edition of Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (volume II, G-O, incidentally), "prepared under the Auspices of Radcliffe College," as it says on the frontispiece.
• By far the most comprehensive thing I read was biography for young readers called Ynes Mexia: Botanist and Adventurer by Durlynn Anema.