Source: Futility Closet
American geologist Clarence King led a strange double life in the late 1800s: He invented a second identity as a black railroad porter so he could marry the woman he loved, and then spent 13 years living separate lives in both white and black America. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll consider the extraordinary lengths that King went to in order to be with the woman he loved.
We’ll also contemplate the dangers of water and puzzle over a policeman’s strange behavior.
Intro:
Artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster arrange household trash to cast shadow self-portraits.
Sources for our feature on Clarence King:
Martha A. Sandweiss, Passing Strange, 2009.
Bill Croke, “The Many Lives of Clarence King,” American Spectator, Feb. 28, 2011.
John Koster, “He Tried to Solve Earth’s Mysteries And Left a Few Mysteries of His Own- Clarence King,” Wild West, February 2014.
William Grimes, “Recalling a Geologist, Adventurer and Raconteur Whom Henry Adams Looked Up to,”
David L. Beck, “A Geologist’s Secret Life,” St. Petersburg Times, April 12, 2009.
William Howarth, “Sex, Lies and Cyanide,” Washington Post, May 20, 1990.
Michael K. Johnson, “Passing…
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