On today's episode, Jennie talks with Kathryn Miller Haynes, Head of the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh. The center is a successor institution of the Foster Hall Collection, the cornerstone of concrete memorial culture that sprung up around Stephen Foster in the early 20th century. Kathy is also a novelist and, as you'll hear, a great conversationalist. Remembering Stephen Foster has always been a fraught enterprise, and we talk about what's changed in the last 20 years, especially the recent period of monument removal and remaking of public space.
To learn more about the Center for American music, visit their website at: https://library.pitt.edu/center-american-music.
To learn more about the show and the book, visit our website at: www.StephenFosterAt200.com.