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Anna Gardner

Anna Gardner

American teacher

Oct 16, 2026

7:48
The Young Lords of Lincoln Park.
7:51
Yes, this is a story that I would imagine many of your listeners may not know.
7:56
It's one of those sort of, we have a lot of big name stories this season.
8:00
This is a little smaller, but it's very important and powerful.
8:02
This is about the Puerto Rican community that once actually inhabited Lincoln Park.
8:08
Many people looking at Lincoln Park today, looking at the upscale restaurants and shops and high-rise buildings, probably wouldn't know that that, in the 50s, was the beating heart of the Puerto Rican community.
8:18
Right.
9:33
Talk about that.
48:26
What was the programming process like for the season that's about to start?
48:31
Yes.
48:31
So this season, we have a little bit of everything.
48:34
The World's Fair is a story that we've been wanting to tell.
48:38
Obviously, we're going back to 1893, so it's an incredibly hard story to tell visually.
48:43
But, you know, it's sort of the story of light and dark.
48:45
You know, you've got these incredible innovations and incredible story of the fair.
51:04
But what was the process like putting that episode together?

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