Precious Memories: stories from The Senior Paper

Precious Memories: Episode 9

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 the acting bug late in life...

Precious Memories: Episode 8

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.

Precious Memories: Episode 7

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 Nova Scotia harbour led to a perilous predicament.

Precious Memories: Episode 6

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.

Precious Memories: Episode 5

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.

Precious Memories: Episode 4

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.

Precious Memories: Episode 3

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!

Precious Memories: Episode 2

In this episode, we hear about special birds, busy bees, leopard prints, and the childhood politics of the schoolyard playground.

Precious Memories: Episode 1

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.