In this Episode, Kelly is joined by historian, Justin Southern!
Join them as Justin tells Kelly how he first became a tourguide. He talks about his time teaching English in Italy, responding to an ad to become a tourguide while living in Italy, and how he came to New York.
Kelly asks Justin about imigration before Ellis Island. Justin talks about the different ways that people emmegrated from their home countries before the US created a way, on the federal level, for people to immigrate to the United States.
Justin talks about the creation of Ellis Island and the first ship that landed on the island. He talks about how many immagrants went through Ellis Island during its peak use. Then he talks about how many immigrants were turned away from staying in the US due to sickness, and puts into perspective how small a number that is.
Kelly asks Justin what people did while they were on Ellis Island. Justin tells him how they had different wards of the hospital and the different patients they took at each. He tells us about how due to the previlance of disease, children had to be seperated from their families.
He also talks about how nurses and doctors made huge advancements in health during this time period because they were able to study so many patients. Justin also gives somes stories about how nurses befriended their patients and stayed connected even after they made it back to the mainland.
Finaly, Kelly asks Justin about the Hard Hat Tour, Justin tells everyone what they can experience when they take the tour. He also gives some great tips for visiting Ellis Island and the stature of Liberty. He also tells everyone how they can take the hard hat tour.
Kelly also tells everyone about his experience taking the hard hat tour. He talks about what he saw on the tour as well as what it felt like to be in the space that so many immagrants went through.
But above all else; Justin Southern is a New Yorker.
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Chapters
- (00:00:00) - New Yorkers: Episode 1
- (00:01:04) - Hard Hats at Ellis Island
- (00:01:39) - I Made A Lady Cry In My First English Teacher Lesson
- (00:04:59) - Telling stories of Ellis Island
- (00:10:49) - How Ellis Island Changed the Immigration Process
- (00:16:28) - Immigrant Customs Agents on the Titanic
- (00:21:33) - Ellis Island: A story of the hospital
- (00:27:34) - Ellis Island: The Stories of the Nurses
- (00:31:22) - How Would an Imm Get to America?
- (00:34:41) - The story of the girl with the boat
- (00:41:34) - The story of Ellis Island
- (00:43:44) - The Ellis Island Hardhat Tour
- (00:45:46) - What It Means to Be a New Yorker
- (00:48:11) - Ellis Island Tours
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