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Mary Sweeny, also known by the first names Maria, Marie, Marion, Mollie, Margaret, Harriet, Anna, Annie or Kit, and by the last names Sweeney, Ricks, Rix, Kelley, Beece, O'Brien, Haley and Anderson, [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] was an American woman known as "the Window Smasher" because of her mania for breaking glass windows across Wisconsin and ...
May 6, 2013 · The Handsome Family's song "Woodpecker" tells the true story of Mary Sweeney, a woman who lived in the late 19th century and was known as the Wisconsin Window Smasher for her compulsive...
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- Bob Boilen
Mary Sweeney was a well-educated, middle-classed mom with a penchant for destruction. In the 1890’s, after a head injury, Mary began having manic episodes. S...
Mary Sweeney is an American director, writer, film editor and film producer. She was briefly married to American film director David Lynch , whom she collaborated with for 20 years. Sweeney worked with Lynch on several films and television series, most notably the original Twin Peaks series (1990), Lost Highway (1997), The Straight Story (1999 ...
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- January 1, 1953 (age 70), Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
- 1983–present
TIL of Mary Sweeny, the "Wisconsin Window Smasher" Who went about smashing windows in the 1890's. It is not known why she suffered from the urge to smash windows but she used cocaine to self-medicate because "it quiets her nerves".
May 26, 2000 · Charismatic figures emerge to grab their own headline space: Mary Sweeney, the Wisconsin Window Smasher, and opera singer Pauline L'Allemand, once the lead in Delibes' opera Lakmé, now...
May 17, 2013 · Lovely Mary Sweeney, the famous window smasher. I wrote that line out in my notebook and then shook my head. What the heck did that have to do with woodpeckers? I still had no clear idea,...
