THE VILLAGE SINGER by MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
Release Date: 09/29/2024
DEACON PITKIN'S FARM (PT 2) HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
In this heartwarming conlusion the family gathers for their seventh Thanksgiving and Diane, who has become the keeper of the house for mother, announces the she has a surprise for "Uncle" Silas. Check out for all our shows and episodes. Give our new podcast 1001 True Crime From Another Time a try! You'll be glad you did- lots of investigations to come.
info_outline
DEACON PITKIN'S FARM: A THANKSGIVING STORY (PT 1) BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
A young man returning home from college in new England finds his father on the verge of losing his farm and decides to quit college to help the family through.
info_outline
MISS MIX, KIDNAPPER by KATHLEEN NORRIS
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
The father of a college age boy receives a letter from his son announcing his engagenet to an older lady (32) and dad assumes the worst. He leaves NY for California with plans of convincing his son to call it off. He meets Miss Mix as she is working in her back yard chicken coup, believing he (Mr Fox, Anthony's dad) to be the repairman she had called. Once they get things straightened out, he begins to realoly admire her for taking his son under her wing. Its a great story. I'm a little hoarse, my apologies.
info_outline
THE AFFAIR AT GROVER STATION by WILLA CATHER
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
A three way attraction leads to a murder in Wyoming and one man knows the secret of who did it and why.
info_outline
MISS SALLY'S LETTER by LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
A domineering grandma with no faith in young men helps a young man in her neighborhood prepare and decorate a small house he had just purchased for his bride to be. Miss Sally, the grandma, has a daughter around the same age as the young man, whose name is Willard, but Miss Sally keeps a tight hold on her daughter, not wanting her to be disappointed in love like she was. Visit our website at to leave reviews- as Apple and Spotify have been very slow in bringing them to me. Thanks
info_outline
BRIDGING THE YEARS by KATHERINE NORRIS
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
In this moving story by Katherine Norris a young mother living in San Francisco around the turn of the century receives an unusual visitor to her home who turns out to be an older gentleman who had lived there previously and wanted to share his memories. Join us at our new website at . Also- support us at Patreon by visiting www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork.
info_outline
BEYOND THE BAYOU by KATE CHOPIN
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
Kate Chopin wrote about life on the Louisiana Bayou after the Civil War, and she portrays the life of blacks on the plantation with tenderness and understanding. In this story a woman named LaFolle, who lives alone in a cabin far from the main home due to a terrifying event in her childhood, which has prevented her from crossing the secrtion between her cabin and all the others, saves the life of the white owner's son by conquering her fears. Fo0llow Me at AMERICA'S BEST OF TIMES: A BOOMER JOURNAL (1949-1969)
info_outline
THE VILLAGE SINGER by MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
A great creative piece about an aging lead singer who is shown the door by her church members but decices she isn't ready for retirement. With her house located only steps from the open church windows she begins singing and playing her organ to compete loudly with the newly hired singer and soon stirs up a hornets nest. For all our 1001 podcasts visit our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com.
info_outline
THE PLAY HOUSE by ALICE BROWN
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
New England author Alice Brown highlights a moment in life around the turn of the centuty with this npoignant short story.
info_outline
A NEW ENGLAND NUN by MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
In this powerful piece of early feminist literature a woman waits 14 years for the man she loves to return from the mines where he has gone to make their fortune so they can be married- but when he returns, she finds her ordered life and routine preferable to marriage.
info_outlineA great creative piece about an aging lead singer who is shown the door by her church members but decices she isn't ready for retirement. With her house located only steps from the open church windows she begins singing and playing her organ to compete loudly with the newly hired singer and soon stirs up a hornets nest.
For all our 1001 podcasts visit our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com.