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# Episode 9: Family Trees
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/episode-9-family-trees/
- Published: 2017-06-29T17:56:12.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-03T15:55:53.000Z
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1738597973835, #Import 2025-02-03 15:53

[Listen to “Family Trees: 9” on Spreaker.](https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43132368)  

> The most courageous is still to think for yourself. Aloud.  
>  
> –Coco Chanel

All books, as usual, added to [the podcast’s bookshelf on Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2800966-carla?shelf=there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast).

#### Quoted:

[The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From the World’s Most Elegant Woman](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781599215235) by Karen Karbo

To Kill a Mockingbird: [novel](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780060935467) and [movie](http://amzn.to/2s5QjTC)

[The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain](http://amzn.to/2tqwf1w)

The Great Gatsby: [novel](http://amzn.to/2srgC64), [movie (1974)–Robert Redford, Bruce Dern, and Mia Farrow](http://amzn.to/2s6ny9c) and [movie (2013)–Leonardo diCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan](http://amzn.to/2sqKDmB) –both recommended by me

Lemony Snicket’s [A Series of Unfortunate Events](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780064407663)

#### Referenced:

[Hairspray](http://amzn.to/2ttZn9c)

[Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780425286555) (novel by Fannie Flagg) and [Fried Green Tomatoes](http://amzn.to/2uoe0XU) (movie with the Kathy Bates! Yay!) and the splendiferous [Fannie Flagg’s Original Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780449910283)

[Cold Sassy Tree](http://amzn.to/2tqt9us) by Olive Ann Burns

[Indiana Jones](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780345501295)

#### [Audibled](http://audibletrial.com/mightbecupcakes):

[He’d Just Not That Into You: The No- Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781416909774) by [Greg Behrendt](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781416909774) and Liz Tuccillo ([paperback at Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781416909774))

[It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780767921961) by Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt ([paperback at Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780767921961))

[It’s Just a Fucking Date](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781626811201) by Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt ([paperback at Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781626811201))

[Sex in the City](http://amzn.to/2tue7F9)

Greg’s comedy: [Greg Behrendt is That Guy From That Thing](http://amzn.to/2tp57k5) and [Greg Behrendt Is Uncool](https://amzn.to/2Ygf9Ci) ([mp3 album](https://amzn.to/3hgl4Po))

#### Dolloped:

[Dollop entry about my mom’s attempt to sneak into a Ku Klux Klan rally, with links to Dollop episodes about the KKK](http://theremightbecupcakes.com/kkk-oral-history/)

[Grandpa Porter at the dollop](http://theremightbecupcakes.com/greenbrier-ghost-and-postmortem-photography/)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f5/6df583d7-3da2-455c-b104-e0c5ab8c796a/content/images/2025/02/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2fed1f6753-4017-41ec-bd59-97ea5cdb762c_421x612.png)

My great grandfather Cornelius Porter, held up with a Brady stand for what was supposed to be his premortem portrait

[Clarence Darrow](http://theremightbecupcakes.com/tag/clarence-darrow)

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My great-great-great grandfather Richard Franklin Pettigrew, Senator R. F. Pettigrew from South Dakota, reason behind the scandal of the “Pettigrew Indictment”

[Pettigrew Home and Museum](https://web.archive.org/web/20210317142211/https://www.siouxlandmuseums.com/home-page/pettigrew-home-museum/)

[congress.gov bio](http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000271)

  
[Listen to “Family Trees: 9” on Spreaker.](https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43132368)

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