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Someone Lived Here: Lewis Latimer House in Queens

July 17, 2019 by Kendra Gaylord Leave a Comment

Lewis Latimer House MuseumIn this episode of Someone Lived Here, Kendra Gaylord visits to the Lewis Latimer House in Queens, NY. Lewis Latimer was an inventor and electrical pioneer who shaped the history of objects we still use every day. He was African American, the son of escaped slaves, and also an artist and poet.

While walking through the Queen Anne style home Gaylord describes the ups and downs of Latimer’s career and explores his journal and poetry to better understand his relationship with his work, race, and family.

You can listen to the podcast here.

New 30-minute episodes of Kendra Gaylord’s Someone Lived Here can be heard on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher, on her own site SomeoneLivedHere.com.

You are seeing this podcast announcement courtesy of The New York History Blog. For a full list of this week’s podcasts click HERE.

Photo: Lewis Latimer House Museum.

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Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Architecture, Black History, Podcasts, Queens

About Kendra Gaylord

Kendra Gaylord is the creator and producer of Someone Lived Here. Kendra is a digital strategist who has worked for media institutions like Boston Globe Media and Complex Magazine. Kendra also co-hosts a podcast called Two Degrees of Peri Gilpin with Ken Williams. Each week they discuss the latest in movies and television, while somehow connecting it back to Peri Gilpin, who played Roz from Frasier.

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