{"id":2627,"date":"2021-10-28T20:35:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T20:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2021-11-02T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T16:07:07","slug":"tis-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/tis-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tis the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Halloween season, that is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again, I find myself making an effort to remember everything I&#8217;ve said and who I&#8217;ve said it to this year. Here&#8217;s what I can remember (and this list does not include a number of private talks I gave to various companies and organizations):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"...and I'll be presenting an illustrated lecture on the history of Halloween on Halloween night (!) for Wesleyan University's &quot;Spooky Evenings&quot;:\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCv94g6kkqUISXd_2NXMxDXQ\">&#8220;Spooky Evenings&#8221; presented by Wesleyan University<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HxO4Twdo5Mg\">The University of Tennessee Knoxville&#8217;s &#8220;Women in Horror&#8221; exhibition<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/It's been a busy season for me, as always! I thought some of you might enjoy this wonderful little history of Halloween on NPR's &quot;Througline&quot;:\u00a0https:\/\/www.npr.org\/podcasts\/510333\/throughline\">NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Throughline&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li>C<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/audio\/podcasts\/margins-of-error?episodeguid=df1d6ac7-d47f-4b82-b6d3-ada5015c838f\">NN&#8217;s &#8220;Margins of Error&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2CIwF5nJie8&amp;feature=share&amp;fbclid=IwAR3p92dM6FDTX7NGupPUt5j6njT40XJLugYiw7bvIECaek0nKvXBzY84Q4w\">The Jim Jefferies podcast &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Know About That&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radionemo.com\/weekends\">&#8220;Dave Nemo Weekends&#8221; on Sirius XM channel 146<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/acedoutradio.com\/\">Spaced Out Radio<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthespine.co.uk\/e\/lisa-morton\/\">Behind the Spine podcast<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/presmd.podbean.com\/e\/spooktacular-trick-or-treat-a-history-of-halloween-with-lisa-morton\/\">&#8220;Preserve Cast&#8221; podcast from Preserve Maryland<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HLCxZ5Xz3Qk\">The Book Fest Author Conversation with Kate Maruyama<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouramericanstories.com\/podcast\/history\/halloween-the-history-of-an-american-holiday\">&#8220;Our American Stories&#8221; podcast on Halloween<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouramericanstories.com\/podcast\/history\/halloween-haunted-attractions-a-history\">&#8220;Our American Stories&#8221; podcast on haunted attractions<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/gimletmedia.com\/shows\/not-past-it\/n8h8ll5\/houdini-the-og-ghostbuster\">&#8220;Not Past It&#8221; podcast on Harry Houdini<\/a><\/li><li>Glen Eira Library in Australia<\/li><li>The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art &amp; UnNatural History in London<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2021\/10\/31\/irish-hell-caves-halloween-sahmain\/\">Print interview with <em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2021\/10\/29\/the-spookiest-thing-about-halloween-the-waste\/\">Print interview for Marketplace<\/a> (about Halloween waste and environmental impact)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/culture\/article\/the-history-of-trick-or-treating-and-how-it-became-a-halloween-tradition\">Print mention in <em>National Geographic<\/em> article on trick or treat<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/lisajimj-1024x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/lisajimj-1024x290.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/lisajimj-300x85.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/lisajimj-768x218.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/lisajimj.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Recording the Jim Jefferies &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Know About That&#8221; podcast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There were also appearances for private companies and non-profit groups, and probably a few things I&#8217;m forgetting! 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Here&#8217;s what I can remember (and this list does not include a number of private talks I gave to various companies and organizations): &#8220;Spooky Evenings&#8221; presented by Wesleyan University<a href=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/tis-the-season\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;[ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/2635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}