Ep. 4 Sigourney Weaver – Manhattan
Sigourney Weaver is one of the greatest movie stars of all time, and many of us think of her as the tough, no-nonsense screen heroines she has played in films from Alien to Avatar. But that’s not how she saw herself as a girl growing up in Manhattan, where she was Susan, the shy, bookish daughter of a dynamic set of parents in that whirling scene of trailblazers in television’s first golden age. In this revealing episode, hear how she found empowerment roaming the streets of New York and attending an all-girls high school where she discovered her name.
For more, including a transcript of the episode, artwork, and a hand-drawn map of Weaver’s hometown, visit yourhometown.org.
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Your Hometown - Podcast
Your Hometown is an innovative new live event and podcast series conceived and hosted by historian Kevin Burke. Prominent and everyday guests from a diversity of generations, geographies, and fields will be interviewed about when and where they grew up and how that intersection of time and place shaped them.
Ep. 1: Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Part 1 – Hollis, Queens
In the first of a two-part interview of Your Hometown, Kevin Burke speaks with Darryl McDaniels, the legendary hip-hop artist from Hollis, Queens, where he and his two friends formed one of the truly pioneering groups in American music: Run-DMC.
Ep. 3 Richard Price – Parkside Houses, The Bronx
Richard Price is a writer’s writer, with novels that include The Wanderers, Clockers, Freedomland, and Lush Life. He’s also collaborated on such landmark television series as HBO’s The Wire, The Night Of, The Deuce, and The Outsider.
