Precious Memories: stories from The Senior Paper
Precious Memories: stories from the Senior Paper is the podcast where the past comes alive through the memories of our beloved senior citizens. In each episode, we’ll stroll down memory lane and bring you the personal memoirs and precious memories of Canadian seniors who have graciously shared their stories with us. These narratives are not just tales from yesteryear; they are vibrant testimonies to lives richly lived, and they are filled with wisdom, love, challenges, triumphs, and bittersweet memories!
Episodes
In this episode we take a trip back in time to small-town and remember all the services it offered residents. We'll then ride along with a woman who recalls her childhood horse and hear how the Clydesdale had a big place in her little heart.
A storyteller will take us all the way back to the early 1920s and gives us a look at life in her small rail side community and we also join a man who learned he was heading down the wrong path...
In this episode, we'll travel with a young lady who makes a big trip to meet a friend and we'll accompany a young man as he leaves the comforts of home and goes off to university. We also visit a woman who recalls how an early childhood incident helped shape her life and we hear of one man's foolproof plan to rid his friend of some dangerous pests. In the first precious memory of this episode, we meet up with a woman who got bit by...
In this episode, we join newlyweds in the 1950s on their first home hunting adventure and we hop a tractor and head out onto the wintery roads of Rural Ontario. We meet a woman who finds new respect for an old foe, and we learn of at least one reason why city folk prefer being city folk when nature coming calling.
In this episode we travel back to rural Manitoba in WWII and hear about a young mother who did what she had to do to raise her six children alone. We'll hop aboard a giant ore transport ship on Canada's Great Lakes and sail with a new ship hand. One author recounts a moment of morality from both far and near past in a story that has her beaming with pride, and we'll row along with two young lads whose adventures around a sleepy Nov...
In this episode, a workplace hiatus drives a woman to a new job experience; a feisty fowl hops to some new friendships; a workday cascades into many woes impressionable young minds fret about what is in the night sky above; and wintery accident that could have ended in heartache.
In this episode, we enjoy the memories of man's (or in this case) a woman's best friend who was a real Lady. We'll also listen to a woman who found herself "guilty" of worry over a legal letter; recall the trials of travel in rural 1930s; revisit the imagination of youth; and wax philosophical about aging.
In this episode, we travel back to one-room school days in the 1930s; hear of challenges posed to newly arriving war-refugees in the 1950s; get a great view from a barn's cupola; recall some service station static; and hear of easterners heading westward for harvest.
In this episode of Precious Memories: Stories from The Senior Paper, we listen to the story of a little lady who learned a big lesson. We travel with a man who had the right tool for the job and go on a short trip with an adventurous young married couple. We'll also hear of bittersweet moments between a mother and her son, and learn of Kiwi, the little dog with a BIG attitude!
In this episode, we hear about special birds, busy bees, leopard prints, and the childhood politics of the schoolyard playground.
In this episode, we learn of a device that changed lives and hear about the ups and downs of antique ownership. Join us as we travel from big city Ontario to small town Saskatchewan to find success, and we learn of a WWI discovery that touches a family 100 years later.
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