In this Deep Dive episode, our hosts discuss the 1619 Berkeley Hundred landing, Thomas Carlyle’s influence, and Seattle’s Fremont Bridge.
• 📜 The hosts describe the moment in 1619 when thirty-eight English colonists landed at the James River grant called Berkeley Hundred (now Berkeley Plantation), and explore how that specific river-side choice shaped settlement patterns, economic trade, land use, and ecological interactions tied to soil, tides, and resource access.
• 🎂 Today’s birthday segment highlights Thomas Carlyle (1795) alongside Rainer Maria Rilke and Jeff Bridges, with a focus on Carlyle’s forceful prose, his critiques of industrial society, and how his emphasis on heroic individuals influenced social thought, labor debates, and the propagation of ideas across political and economic spheres.
• 💡 The fact of the day: Seattle’s Fremont Bridge rises and falls more than any drawbridge in the world — a detail the hosts use to discuss engineering wear-and-tear, maintenance and lifecycle costs, operational protocols, and the economic and transport implications of such frequent cycling.
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