#64 Diary Sampler 2 - Basic Needs, Chair Pusher, Crime Of A Dastard.

About this episode

The episode features three diary stories, including a school teacher's take on basic needs and a young man's experiences at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair.

In this episode, we share three stories from three diaries. In the first, you will hear about a young school teacher who wrote out her idea of "The Basic Needs Of Every Life". She beat Abraham Maslow and his "Hierarchy of Needs" by twenty years, as her ideas and his are very similar. Next, we visit the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair. We share diary entries by a 21 year old man, who had a unique job at the fair. His very first entry mentioned "danger from fire" and was written months before a ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Sally Ivey, Jeff Richards

Topics covered

• diary entries
• basic needs
• historical events
• personal stories
• education
• society

Keywords

• diary
• basic needs
• Abraham Maslow
• 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair
• school teacher
• personal stories
• historical diaries

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