Saturday, November 30, 2013

Addendum to First and Last Chance Episode

Since posting the show last night I've realized there were a couple omissions that needed correcting:

1) Almost the entire section on the Bay Area oyster industry was based on a 2006 in article in Pacific Historical Review entitled “Oyster Growers and Oyster Pirates in San Francisco Bay” by historian Mathew Morse Booker.  I footnoted this in the print script, but in the version I read aloud I had deleted Mr. Booker's name without replacing it anywhere else.  Considering I leaned so heavily on his work, he deserves much more than just a footnote.
In the section in which I refer to a "historian's socioeconomic argument" about the nature of oyster pirates, I should have added Mr. Booker's name because, well, it is one of the arguments of his article.

2) I missed an opportunity for a decent joke!  When talking about the authors who came into the Last Chance I listed the great Ambrose Bierce.  The next sentence clearly should have been: "Of course, it turns out Bierce had never been there at all, he had merely imagined coming into the bar when he was actually hanging from a bridge in Alabama."

3) When discussing the segregation of sexes I used the phrase, "separate spheres".  I maintain that is what I said, but it sure sounds like, "separate spears".  The correct word is "spheres".

- Mike B.

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