Alpine Meadows

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Anna Conrad receiving her diploma from UC Davis

(AP)

Karen:

The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche

Episode sources:

1. “Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche”

2. “ARCHIVES: The 1982 Avalanche At Alpine Meadows” (KCRA) 2022

3. “Tragic Alpine Meadows Avalanche – March 31, 1982” (Tahoetopia)

4. “Avalanche!” (Sports Illustrated) 1982

5. “Uncle Sam: Gimme Back My Cannon” by Paul Raymore (Sierra Sun) 2004

6. “From 1982: Avalanche Survivor Buried Five Days” (Reno Gazette Journal reprinted from North Lake Tahoe Bonanza) 2014

7. “The Film About a 40-Year-Old Avalanche Helped Me Process My Own Trauma” by Megan Michelson (Outside) 2022

8. “Aftermath of Alpine Meadows’ 1982 Avalanche” by Mark McLaughlin (Tahoe Guide) 2022 

9. “Avalanches: How to Stay Safe” by Tom Niziol (Weather Underground) 2020

10. “Remembering the 1982 Alpine Meadows, CA Avalanche That Killed Seven 40 Years Later” by Aunika Skogen (SnowBrains) 2022

11. “Anna: It’s ‘fantastic” by Patrick O’Driscoll (Reno Gazette-Journal) 1982

12. “Avalanche at Ski Resort Revisited in Great Detail” (The Columbus Dispatch) 2009

13. “From 1982: Avalanche Survivor Buried Five Days” (Reno Gazette Journal) 2014

14. “Sierra and Northern Nevada Avalanches” (Reno Gazette Journal) 1999

15. “Anna Conrad: Survivor and Still a Ski Fan” by Jim Sloan (Reno Gazette-Journal) 1985

16. “Unburying the past: Tahoe documentary revists deadly 1982 avalanche” by Amy Alonzo (Reno Gazette Journal)

17. “How to Protect Yourself From an Avalanche” (Ready.gov)

18. “Avalanche Survivor Relives Experience Trapped in the Snow for Five Days” by Ali Wolf (Fox 40) 2017

19. “Looking back: Alpine Meadows 1982 Avalanche” (Tahoe Ski World) 2020

20. “A Legacy Set in Stone” by Chaco Mohler (Tahoe Quarterly)

21. “40th Anniversary of Alpine Meadows’ Avalanche” by Mark McLaughlin (2022.)

22. “Bernie Kingery, one of the nation's foremost avalanche experts …” by Sandra Michioku (UPI Archives) 1982

23. “Buried Alive, Part 2” by Susan Reifer (Outside Magazine/Ski Mag) 2000

24. “Buried in snow since last week, woman rescued” (AP/The News-Messenger) 1982

Georgia:

William Chester Minor and the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary

Episode sources:

1. The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester

2. “The Strange Case of the Madman With a Quotation for Every Word” by Mel Gussow (The New York Times, September 7, 1998)

3. “A Tortured Soul Finds Redemption in Words” (Yale Medicine Magazine, Winter 2009)

4. “Oxford English Dictionary” (Wikipedia)

5. “History of the OED” (Oxford English Dictionary)

6. “Dr William Chester Minor” (Living With Schizophrenia)

7. “The Wilderness” (American Battlefield Trust)

8. “Congregational Church” (Wikipedia)

William Chester Minor