Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

It was on this day in 1914 a family in Grangeville, Idaho sent a four year old through the mail to her grandmother in Lewiston, 73 miles away. And she wasn’t the only kid to travel this way after the US Postal Service began the parcel post. Plus: the group Electronicos Fantasticos is making some fascinating music with bar code scanners! A Brief History of Children Sent Through the Mail (Smithsonian) We Used to be Able to Send Children in the Mail (KQED) Barcoders Jamming (Electronicos Fantasticos on YouTube) Backing Cool Weird Awesome on Patreon is just as great as getting a birthday check in the mail! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message