Episode 45: Parents!

About the Episode

Seattle, WA: November 17, 1923. Sole survivor of Wrangel Island tragedy. Ada Blackjack , Eskimo seamstress, and her son, who welcomed her back to Seattle after she had been rescued by Harold Noice, leader of a relief expedition sent into the Arctic. © TopFoto / The Image Works

Parents can be pretty amazing sometimes – these two stories feature parents who went above and beyond for their kids and their community. Ada Blackjack was an Inupiat woman who was the only survivor of an extreme Arctic expedition, and she did it all for her son.
The McCoy Family of Michigan had escaped enslavement in the South, but as their daughter Anna would find out, that wasn’t the end of their story.
This episode features the esteemed voice talents of Greg and Abigail Maupin.