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Deep Dive: Appleton’s Electric Dawn, Truman Capote’s Cultural Current, and Vowel Tricks - September 30, 2025
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In this Deep Dive episode, our hosts discuss the 1882 launch of the first centrally located electric lighting plant using the Edison system — which was also the United States' first hydroelectric central station on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, and how that technological shift reshaped public life and local power use.
• 📜 The hosts trace the Appleton event: a centralized Edison lighting plant paired with a hydroelectric station on the Fox River in 1882, and why that combination mattered for urban illumination, community life, and harnessing river power.
• 🎂 Birthday segment honoring Truman Capote (with mentions of Elie Wiesel and Johnny Mathis), focusing especially on Capote’s influence — from Breakfast at Tiffany's shaping mid‑century style to In Cold Blood's novelistic true‑crime approach and his keen cultural observations.
• 💡 Fact of the day: a linguistic tidbit — the words "facetious" and "abstemious" (and the adjective "arsenious") each contain the vowels a, e, i, o, u in order; plus a note that "arsenious" means "containing arsenic," anchoring the pattern in definition.
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