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Say goodbye to sleeplessness and the "Sunday Night Dreads." Direct from Circa19xx.com comes Circa Sunday Night, a quirky little show that explores an idealized version of yesterday as an escape from the turmoil of today. Come along as we discover intriguing stories from history, shop amazing antique stores and markets, explore beautiful mansions and places of note in yesteryear, immerse ourselves in the forgotten music of times gone by, and get acquainted with the glittering personalities, artists, writers, and taste makers of the early 20th Century. It's time travel for the imagination--and the cure for insomnia. It's Circa Sunday Night. If you like the show, and aren't afraid to admit it, won't you please leave a favorable review on your favorite podcast platform? Jennifer, our host, needs almost constant affirmation.
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Gather 'round, everybody. Class is now in session. Our subject: a lesson in vocabulary. Yes, Jennifer is defining for us terms that are part of the Circa 19xx Land vernacular. What's Crystal made of, and why it is called "crystal"? When is something considered an antique? When is it vintage? Which came first: Art Deco or Art Nouveau? And what in the world is a "whiplash curl"? You'll be able to astonish your friends with your grasp of tr...
Jennifer dropped off the face of the Earth--but she's back now (after three months, but who's counting?). She's been touring mansions again--this time in Newport, Rhode Island. She recounts her adventures for us and answers the question: what is it like to spend the night in a big, 150-year-old Victorian gothic mansion ALONE? She also shares with us some tips for decorating our own Gilded Age-inspired ballrooms. There's a jam-packed itinerary for our little junket to R...
The world is such a harsh place, and life is very hard. But you know what isn’t hard? Fluffy bunnies. Tonight Jennifer does a deep dive into her favorite bunny story: The Velveteen Rabbit. She’ll also take a look at a song right out of Circa 19xx Land that also has ties to Jennifer's memories of the 1980s. And then she'll share with you what she hopes the Easter bunny brings to her this year in her Easter basket. She has a wish list—and everything on it is...
Jennifer has become enchanted with April. Wait, no, that's not quite right. She's over the moon about a book she just discovered entitled The Enchanted April. Yeah, that's it. This book has been around for 100 years, but it just now made it onto Jennifer's reading list and she's now wondering where it has been all her life. Written by Elizabeth Von Arnim and inspired by her stay in 1920 at Castello Brown, a beautiful Mediterranean fortress in Portofino, Italy, Th...
Huh? The title of this episode doesn't sound like something one would find in Circa 19xx Land. Well, Jennifer got a notion; Blame an off-the-cuff remark in Episode 27 for this one. She said something in that episode that tickled her own fancy...and here we are. In tonight's show Jennifer leads us on a virtual retreat in which we clean out our heads of toxic muck only to fill them up again with good, wholesome stuff. Dust off your old school notebooks and find a pencil,...
Oops! Jennifer forgot the show was called Circa SUNDAY Night, and posted this week's episode on Monday. But, we'll forgive her this time because tonight's show is all about the Gilded Age in New York, and as this episode of Circa Sunday Night goes up, a new episode of the HBO drama The Gilded Age is airing as well. Wait...could this have been part of her brilliant plan all along? We'll never know. But what we can say is that tonight's show is weird. ...
Tonight Jennifer confronts the winter blues head-on with an imaginary excursion on the ill-fated Prinzessin Victoria Luise, the first ship designed specifically for pleasure cruising. We're traveling back to 1901 for this little trip, and on that maiden voyage, everything is glittering and beautiful--just as it should be. But, as is so often the case (and why is that? Jennifer wonders...) tragedy looms large in the future of our lovely ship. A crash, a suicide, on-board pand...
Come on over to Jennifer’s house for her annual Christmas party! There’s plenty of cheesecake—and really bad egg nog—to go around. Olive will be there to greet you at the door, and if you can somehow make it past her, you’ll encounter an interesting collection of guests, such as Steve Allen, the first host of the Tonight Show, and the Anderson family from the old radio program Father Knows Best. Jennifer talks Christmas movies, plays a little game of Christmas movie trivia, ...
Welcome to Jennifer's latest obsession: The Phantom of the Opera. Her sister forced her to watch the 25th Anniversary stage production at Royal Albert Hall from 2011, and she fell hard for the show. To learn more she read the original novel by Gaston Leroux, she watched a couple of classic film adaptations from 1925 and 1943, and basically immersed herself in all things Phantom. Before she realized that Leroux's book was published in 1910 she lamented the fact that Ph...
Jennifer loves prowling around and researching old stuff, so it’s only natural—or should we say SUPERnatural —that she would run into a ghost story now and then. Tonight she takes us on a tour of the murkier regions of Circa19xx Land to meet a few of their less corporeal inhabitants. Tonight's itinerary:We take a spin around the phantom ballroom at the Overlook Hotel (you know how Jennifer loves a good ballroom);Jennifer then takes us to the creepiest haunted mansion she has...
WARNING: Dorky content ahead. (Some might argue that all Circa Sunday Night episodes should come with this warning, but perhaps this one is dorkier than most.) Tonight we’re going to take a peek into the exciting world of vintage school materials. Yes, materials that were used in classrooms to shape the youth of yesteryear and prepare them to inherit the world. OK, so this may not be everyone’s cup of tea. It IS Jennifer’s cup of tea, though. She was ...
Jennifer goes on and on tonight about Zelda Fitzgerald, the subject of two books she has just read and the object of her current obsession. Was she a flapper or philosopher? Both, perhaps, as well as a dancer, a writer, a painter, a muse, and a girl who may have lost her mind but found her soul. It was inevitable that Zelda, that iconic "It" girl of the 1920s and wife of literary giant F. Scott Fitzgerald, would make an appearance in Circa 19xx Land; after all, ...
Road trip, anyone? Jennifer's in Florida again, but this time she's nowhere near the Magic Kingdom. With Miami as home base, she's gassed up the rental car and set the GPS to a place (South Florida) and a decade (the 1920s) where she explores a beautiful old mansion and garden, a historic and spectacular swimming pool, and a glamorous prohibition-era hotel. Oh, and the highlight: Jennifer visits a crazy tourist attraction from the 1920s that she has dreamed of for decades.&...
Jennifer fell in love with the sound of her own voice and honored it with the longest Circa Sunday Night episode ever produced. Tonight Jennifer (and her voice) take us to the sweet little burg of Mayfield, home of the Cleaver family. That's right--we're making a left on Pine Street, where we find Ward painting lawn chairs, June serving up lemonade, and Wally and the Beaver giving each other the business. It's all charming, and a balm for a weary world. Jennifer is wi...
Welcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room...Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 13.Jennifer has a fire going and her reading voice warmed up, so turn down the lights and pull up the covers. It's story time in Cir...
Welcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room...Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 12.Jennifer has a fire going and her reading voice warmed up, so turn down the lights and pull up the covers. It's story time in Cir...
Welcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room...Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 11.Jennifer has a fire going and her reading voice warmed up, so turn down the lights and pull up the covers. It's story time in Cir...
Woopsie! Jennifer had to switch gears at the eleventh hour and do a show that was nothing like she had originally planned. The masterpiece she had in mind didn't pan out, and she ran out of time. Never one to let the quest for perfection obliterate progress, she goes on with the show. Tonight is all about beautiful things, a theme drawn from an old musty book Jennifer picked up at her favorite thrift store this week called One Thousand Beautiful Things. With a ti...
Welcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room...Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 10. Wait...what? We left off with Chapter 6. How did we get to Chapter 10? Well, Jennifer was so enthralled with the tit...
Circa Sunday Night Season 2 begins now! Jennifer has just crawled out of her winter-long hibernation and is yearning for warmer climes. In tonight's show she takes a little imaginary voyage to the islands, exploring a few kitschy tourist attractions of yesteryear along the way. Also new this season is a segment entitled "This week in Circa 19xx Land," (at least until Jennifer can come up with a better name), in which she talks about cool vintage stuff she's encountered late...
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