“Stagecoach” Mary Fields, Montana’s One-Of-A-Kind Mail Carrier (Cool Weird Awesome 496)

Mary Fields was the first Black woman to receive a Post Office contract to deliver the mail, and in the Wild West, no less. Here's a little more about a pioneer who definitely made some history. Plus: the story of a sibling who found a practical use for her identical twin.

By |2024-02-15T06:58:09-05:00March 15, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , , |

Bees Doing It For Themselves (Cool Weird Awesome 307)

There are lots of human efforts to help bees out, but there’s also some new research out that says bees help themselves by taking steps to get plants to flower earlier than usual. Plus: a man in Canada ordered hair cream in 2012, and it just arrived this month. Patience is a virtue!

By |2021-05-21T13:40:04-04:00May 27, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

When Americans Could Mail Their Children From Place To Place (Cool Weird Awesome 241)

It was on this day in 1914 a family in Grangeville, Idaho sent a four year old through the mail to her grandmother in Lewiston, 73 miles away. And she wasn’t the only kid to travel this way.

By |2024-02-19T09:15:26-05:00February 19, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Will Kryptos, The Unsolvable CIA Puzzle Sculpture, Finally Be Solved? (Cool Weird Awesome 230)

Kryptos is a puzzle sculpture that’s been on the grounds of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia since 1990. Three of its four coded messages have been solved - and now we have a clue that might reveal the fourth. Plus: the story of the J.W. Westcott II, the only ship that has its own ZIP code.

By |2024-02-19T09:31:04-05:00February 4, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

Meet Owney, The Legendary Postal Dog (Cool Weird Awesome 92)

The National Postal Museum in Washington, DC, has an exhibit telling the story of Owney, the dog who loved the mail so much that he helped deliver it all over the world.

By |2024-02-21T06:11:59-05:00July 26, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |
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