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Unknown America: The Collyer Brothers/Vishnu Springs (Audio)

Jun 30, 2024

This episode is about both the Collyer brothers, New York City's first widely documented hoarding case, and Vishnu Springs, failed Illinois new age health resort. 

"Unknown America" is a show that dives into places, people, events, and other aspects of American history that often go overlooked. Through occasional interviews, on-site reporting, frantically obsessive research, and personal accounts, the listener will emerge out the other side just a bit wiser and more curious about the forgotten footnotes of history that make America fascinating, curious, and complicated.

Hali Palombo is a composer, visual artist, filmmaker, shortwave radio enthusiast, and amateur historian from the Midwestern United States. Born in Northfield, Minnesota, she has had a natural curiosity about radio and the Midwestern United States from a young age. Her work often weaves the absurdity and mundane beauty of Illinois into her records, short films, drawings, and paintings.