https://www.donnerpartypodcast.com/home daily 1.0 2022-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6154cace14baac466194f88c/1632947490094-HRZKKLP062OQWPIJ0TM2/IMG_5766.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6154cace14baac466194f88c/1632949333667-643V9E13EZYXHLTD8KWI/Colleen+at+statue.jpg Home - What is the Donner Party? Hi, what are you doing here? Kidding. Thanks for the blind click. In the winter of 1846, a wagon train made up of almost 90 men, women, and children became trapped by twenty or more feet of snow. For reference, in the photo to the right, the stone base of the monument is as high as the snow that winter. For over 100 days this group of immigrants, mormons, school teachers, brewers, farmers, families, and would-be adventurers were subjected to unspeakable conditions and hopelessness. As the days grew long and their hunger grew, the survivors turned to eating the bodies of their deceased friends, parents, and children. Both before and after their rescue, the story of the Donner Party became a media sensation and the young United States’ first mass civilian tragedy. But as the story spread, the blame conveniently shifted to those who were no longer alive to defend themselves. To tell the truth. Instead the Donner Party became a gruesome myth about fate and hubris. And the true story and those truly responsible for the tragedy slipped in between history pages. Until now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6154cace14baac466194f88c/1632953649582-IE0Q1OTII2SOGNPEM96W/girls+and+the+van.jpg Home - Independence, MO to Los Angeles, CA And basically everywhere in between. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6154cace14baac466194f88c/1633383198421-SFZ0IUOOSXXBTUOTHH3X/girl+and+goat.jpg Home - Who are we? Colleen Scriven: Creator, Co Host, Writer, Editor, Clearly Mentally ill Colleen Scriven is a writer and comedian originally from New York. Her indie narrative podcast, Lesser Gods, was optioned for television by HBO. Colleen has worked on shows for Showtime, Amazon Prime, and Apple. She is an alum of the Young and Hungry and WeForShe WriteHer lists. Hope Andrejack: Co Host, Superior Driver Hope Andrejack knows that horses gotta run (which you will too after we visit Rock Springs, WY). Hope Andrejack is an actor from NY, now living in LA. She worked as a model in NYC. Now a recent graduate from UCI with a MFA in acting. While studying she worked on Company the musical as Joanne, The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood playing Penelope, and numerous Shakespeare shows. Liv Benger: Producer, Editor, Reason the Show is Not 100 Hours Based in Boston, Liv is an operations manager at a venture capital firm by day and MBA student at Boston College by night. In a previous life she worked at Creative Artists Agency and ITV America in LA. In her free time, Liv is either practicing yoga or listening to true crime podcasts. Like her friend Colleen, Liv is clearly mentally ill but making it work. Alaina Rook: Expert (our words not hers) Alaina has been a researcher for digital media companies for the past six years, most recently at Amazon Prime Video and BuzzFeed, where she was a senior researcher and co-writer on the hit series Unsolved. Ironically, true crime does not mix well with her gentle disposition, and her true passions are ABBA, astrology, critical race/gender theory, and Timothee Chalamet. She knows a little about a lot, but she’s still not very good at bar trivia because she hates team sports and lacks competitive drive. Art by Kennedy Daniels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Home https://www.donnerpartypodcast.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-10-04 https://www.donnerpartypodcast.com/donate daily 0.75 2025-05-09