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Love Sweetie Podcast

This is a podcast about a woman"s life in the latter half of the 20th century named Kathryn Frances Demaree Graham (a.k.a. Sweetie). The podcast reacts to and comments on the many letters chronicling her life. Check out more information at www.lovesweetiepodcast.com. Follow Sweetie on X at @lovesweetieshow

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84:34

Bonus Episode: Where Has the Coffee Gone? The Office...

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2025/02/16

This is a special bonus episode in which Alison and Jamie discuss the history of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) which oversaw price ceilings for consumer goods and the rationing system during World War II. The top leadership of this federal government agency are reviewed, as well as the complex logistics that retailers were expected to follow to ensure the success of the rationing system in particular. Finally, historical documentation is shown indicating how coffee was ...

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71:38

Episode 42: The War May Be Over Soon

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2025/02/09

This is episode 42 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features three letters from July 1945, two from Sweetie, and the third from her father, Chester Demaree, M.D. Sweetie is staying with her parents during her pregnancy in Lacona, Iowa, and describes her day-to-day activities. She writes to her sister, Jeanne, regarding how much she appreciates her during this time. Dr. Demaree writes to Jeanne from Lacona, Iowa as well, providing medical advice about burn treatments...

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47:22

Episode 41: Land of Rain, Fog, Drizzle and Mist

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2025/02/02

This is episode 41 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features three letters from summer 1945, and the first letter is from Sweetie's husband, Lew, who is writing from England as he is stationed there as part of his service in the United States Navy during World War II. The other two letters are from Sweetie in Lacona, Iowa. She is staying with her parents during her pregnancy, and describes the day-to-day activities of what is occurring at home that summer and how sh...

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51:38

Episode 40: Jolly Old England

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2025/01/26

This is episode 40 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features four letters from summer 1945, and the first letter is from Sweetie's husband, Lew, who is writing from England as he is stationed there as part of his service in the United States Navy during World War II. The other three letters are all from Sweetie in Lacona, Iowa. She is staying with her parents during her pregnancy, and describes the day-to-day activities of what is occurring at home that summer and h...

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42:51

Episode 39: The Blare of the News Report

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2025/01/19

This is episode 39 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features three letters from late spring and early summer 1945, two of which Sweetie wrote to her sister Jeanne from New York and Iowa, and the third is from Sweetie's husband, Lew, who writes from England. While Sweetie plans to return with her brother, Bob, and his wife, Florence, as she intends to have her baby in Iowa (she is at this point four months pregnant), Lew indicates that he had a good trip to England. ...

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40:25

Episode 38: I Got the Best Graham of the Bunch

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2025/01/12

This is episode 38 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features three letters from spring 1945 that Sweetie wrote to her sister Jeanne from Pennsylvania and New York. Sweetie, who is now pregnant, is dealing with the reality that her husband, Lew, is about to be sent overseas during World War II. However, she is able to stay with him until the point of his departure, and meet up with other family members who are in New York.Additionally, some historical context is prov...

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36:14

Bonus Episode: Naval Air Station Hutchinson: A...

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2025/01/11

This is a special bonus episode in which Alison and Jamie discuss the history of Naval Air Station (NAS) Hutchinson. This base was built in 1942 and was operational for World War II until 1946. (Lew served at this base from July 1944 - March 1945). There are some special stories from this base to tell, and we can see how the history can be pieced together to provide a good overview. The image of Jiminy Cricket in the plane was the official mascot image of NAS Hutchinso...

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53:47

Episode 37: I Want To Have This Baby Myself

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2025/01/05

This is episode 37 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features four letters from early 1945 that Sweetie wrote to her sister Jeanne from Hutchinson, Kansas. We get the revelation in these letters that Sweetie, who has recently visited her sister in Des Moines, is now pregnant, and also the news by the end of the episode that Lew is to be shipped out overseas (as he is serving in the United States Navy). As such, the two leave Hutchinson, Kansas for the East Coast.Addi...

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40:30

Episode 36: Drat It! Everybody's Having a Baby But Me

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2024/12/29

This is episode 36 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features the first three letters in the collection from January 1945, providing updates from both Sweetie and Lew who have returned to Hutchinson, Kansas from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the holiday season. In the New Year, Sweetie observes in the second of her two letters that many of the young couples she knows that have been married are having children, and wonders when she might become pregnant herself. T...

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53:18

Episode 35: Excuse Blots and Writing

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2024/12/22

This is episode 35 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features five pieces of correspondence from four individuals from December 1944. Sweetie sends a Christmas card and a letter to Jeanne, Lew (Sweetie's husband) sends information to Jeanne, Dr. Chester Demaree (Sweetie's father) writes to his son, Frank, who is at the front during World War II about Christmas 1944 in Iowa and how he has plans to purchase a farm, and Samuel Graham (Lew's father) sends a card to Jeanne, pro...

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42:37

Episode 34: For This War-Time X-Mas

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2024/12/15

This is episode 34 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features four letters from November and December 1944. Two of the four letters were written by Sweetie from Hutchinson, Kansas, and the other two letters were from Sweetie's parents, writing to her sister, Jeanne, in Lacona, Iowa. In this episode, we find out what happened to disrupt Sweetie's plans for Thanksgiving, whether or not Jeanne finally visits her sister in Hutchinson, and we hear about the plans that are...

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34:48

Episode 33: My Pen is Temperamental

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2024/12/08

This is episode 33 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features three letters from November 1944. Two of the three letters were written by Sweetie from Hutchinson, Kansas, and the other letter was written by Sweetie's husband, Lew. In this episode, Lew writes to Sweetie's father, Chester Demaree, M.D., regarding some tools that Chester has sent him from Lacona, Iowa, and Sweetie and Lew hope that her sister, Jeanne, will visit them in Hutchinson, Kansas before Thanksgi...

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47:26

Episode 32: Are You Suggesting That We Have a Little...

Love Sweetie Podcast ·

2024/12/01

This is episode 32 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features four letters from October and November 1944. Three of the four letters were written by Sweetie from Hutchinson, Kansas, and the other letter was written by Sweetie's mother, Laura, from Lacona, Iowa. In this episode, Sweetie hopes that her sister Jeanne will come to visit her Kansas, Lew gets a guitar, and Sweetie reviews the possibility of her and Lew having a baby in the near future. Finally, at th...

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44:08

Episode 31: The Forgotten Man of the Navy

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2024/11/24

This is episode 31 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features four letters from fall 1944. All four letters were written by Sweetie; three of the four were sent to Jeanne, and the last letter in this episode was sent to her other sister, Margaret Elizabeth Bolton. In this episode, we learn more about Sweetie's social life in Hutchinson, Kansas and we see that Sweetie and Lew are trying to find Christmas presents that they can send to her two brothers who are serving ...

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Episode 30: The Decision is Yours to Make

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2024/11/17

This is episode 30 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features three letters from early fall 1944. All three letters were written by Sweetie, and she notes both what is happening with her and Lew living in Hutchinson, Kansas, but also she advises her sister, Jeanne, on what to do with regards to Jeanne's relationship with a man named Bill. Jeanne is considering marrying Bill and seeks Sweetie's advice. Additionally, we learn a little more about Hutchinson, Kansa...

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40:31

Episode 29: Not Dead - Just Forgotten

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2024/11/10

This is episode 29 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features five letters from late summer / early fall 1944. All five letters were written by Sweetie and updates her family on what is occurring in Hutchinson, Kansas since she moved there. Sweetie writes to her family members, requesting updates from them as to what is occurring, since she and Lew are by themselves in Kansas.For more information, please go to www.lovesweetiepodcast.com. This podcast is also availabl...

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42:23

Episode 28: A Closer Race This Time Than Ever Before

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2024/11/03

This is episode 28 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features four letters from late summer 1944. The first three letters are updates from Sweetie in Hutchinson, Kansas, and she describes a new apartment that she and Lew are renting, since it seems they will be staying in that city for longer than expected. The fourth, and final letter of the episode, is from Sweetie's father, Chester Demaree, M.D., writing from Lacona, Iowa to his sons, Frank and Bob who are both se...

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61:22

Episode 27: At the Edge of a Corn Field

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2024/10/27

This is episode 27 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features three letters from late summer 1944. The first, and longest of the three letters is from Sweetie's father, Chester Demaree, M.D., writing from Lacona, Iowa. He recounts the story as to how he tried to save a man's life from drowning, and then mentions what is occurring in the summer of 1944 with regards to the Democratic National Convention of 1944. As such, we have a discussion about Harry Truman be...

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46:10

Episode 26: If He Should Be Sent to Sea and Never...

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2024/10/20

This is episode 26 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features three letters from late summer 1944 from Sweetie - two to her parents, recounting her trip to Hutchinson, Kansas, and one from Sweetie to Jeanne as she tries to help Jeanne with relationship advice.For more information, please go to www.lovesweetiepodcast.com. This podcast is also available on YouTube - please like, share, and subscribe there. Follow the Love Sweetie Podcast on X at @lovesweetieshow. Follow the Love S...

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61:20

Episode 25: Your 2 Bit Puddle Jumper Had a Flat Tire

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2024/10/13

This is episode 25 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features three letters from June and July 1944 - two from Sweetie (one from Ottumwa, Iowa, and one from Hutchinson, Kansas), and one from her mother, Laura (in Lacona, Iowa). These letters were all written after D-Day (June 6, 1944), and so some of that history is also provided. Finally, at the end, we take a look at the rail lines between Iowa and Kansas, and talk about what it was like traveling through Union Sta...

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