Episode 111: Camp Anneewakee // The Tommyknockers
Patrice, Marleah and Courtney drink orange blossom cocktails and talk child labor, abuse, coal miners, tiny hens and ugly cats.
Camp Anneewakee //
How a Douglasville, GA camp for disturbed youth secretly trafficked, abused and exploited boys for 25 years.
The Tommyknockers //
The knocking sound on the walls of Appalachian coal mines - was it lumber settling, or the ghosts of dead miners ... or was it little gnomelike men with a taste for saffron buns?
- Cornish Saffron Buns recipe from Savor the Flavor
- Jewish Ghosts, Knackers, Tommyknockers, and Other Sprites of Capitalism in the Cornish Mines, by Paul Manning
- Reddit convo on antisemitism in folklore
- Tommyknockers from Haint n Holler Podcast
- Tommyknockers of the Western Mines
Shoutouts!
EPISODE DRINK:
Orange Blossom Cocktail
- 1-1/4 oz gin
- 1 oz sweet vermouth - preferably Antica Formula
- 1 oz orange juice, freshly squeezed
- orange wedge for garnish
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Add gin, sweet vermouth and orange juice to a shaker with ice
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Shake-a shake-a shake-a
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Strain into a chilled cocktail glass
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Garnish with an orange wedge
Try something else in our Episode Drink List!
