Introduction to my New Podcasts series: Recent Episodes
clyde mcculley
"Mama's White Gravy" is a Podcast of nostalgic days gone, times remembered, sights, sounds and smells of the past that many call "the Good old days." The weekly podcast will cover many things remembered by either yourself, your parents or your grandparents. We hope the podcast will give you a way of looking to the future while holding onto those good parts that came before.
I had friends on my FB send in Superstitions that they remembered from their childhood, or had heard from parents or grandparents. Hope you enjoy, and please share.
My Dad always had his own home remedies for our illnesses. I never ever remember him going to see a doctor.
I asked friends on FB to post home remedies that their parents or grandparents believed in and used. Some of them are amazing.
Kenny and I enjoyed the summers roaming the hills and woods. We found a lot of wonderful things there that we could eat. Here are some of them.
This is a story about my visiting the carnival and going into see a show that my Mama would not approve of, and neither would the preacher!
I am reading some of the short stories from my memoir "The Boy on Shady Grove Road" Times were simple then and they bring back memories
This podcast is a bit about my fantasy of believing in Santa Claus at Christmas when I was a kid growing up in the country. But, I end with a real story about my having to help the New York City Macy's Santa (Which a little boy believed was the REAL Santa) make the little boy's wishes come true.
In this podcast I talk about how the automobile was affected after the second world war. Henry J, a small car, was developed and how Sears tried to sell it under the name ALLSTATE, can you believe it?
A peach farmer in Georgia gave the school two truck loads of ripe peaches. An old man in a country store in the orchards offered us a deal.... "Make me 1000 gallons of Moonshine Peach Brandy. "
We had a group of high school kids on a hike and we got lost in a snow storm. We were saved by ????
Daddy's Underwear was made from Feed Sacks is just one of the many examples of the ways people, who did not have much money, made in order to stretch their money in the Good Old Days.
We went to the hospital to have my wife's broken leg repaired, and everything they used, they threw away!
We listened to radio in the evenings. Mama liked her Soap Operas, "Stella Dallas" 'Ma Perkins" and others. We liked the detective shows at night and Lone Ranger and Sargent Preston of the North West Territory.
Children often take certain smells they had in childhood into adulthood. A smell to an adult can bring back memories of long ago. See how many smells you can relate too.
This is about thinking back about your mama's home cooking. It may lead to a Country cookbook about Simple foods we have all loved.
My interest in cars from seeing them on the car lots when I was a kid, to following their changes after the war.
This Podcast is about my moving to Nashville at 14 years of age, and enjoying the country music there, including many Saturday nights at the Grand Ol Opery in the Ryman Auditorium.
I was about to get my first traffic ticket when I was a teenager. My Daddy was riding with me when it happened and he winked at me and said he would get me out of my jam. You won't believe what he did! I did not get the ticket.
This is an Episode introducing my new book, "Panther Creek Mountain" where the kids live in log cabins on a high mountain ridge and listen for the panthers to scream up in the hills before they go to sleep each night.
As kids we discovered a great machine in town where we could see our toes right trough our shoes.
We needed money, so Kenny and I helped my older brother sell Christmas Trees. See what the preacher man had to say about it.
Momma and Aunt Old wanted their husbands to accept Jesus and be baptised, but a Snake had something to do with it.
My daddy liked to listen to early morning radio. He had his favorite shows including a radio evangelist, listen and you will hear some southern prejudice coming into the end of the story.
This is Episode # 3. It is how I came to the realization that we were poor, and what my daddy told me.
This is the offical introduction of the podcast, "Mama's White Gravy Nostalgic Podcast Radio." We hope you enjoy the podcasts and will go to our website mamaswhitegravy.com for more information and email us a note.
This is a trial run for an upcoming Podcast Series. It is named for the delicious white gravy that my mama poured over biscuits and fried potatoes. It was inexpensive, it had to be. We were poor, but had a wonderful life in the country side of rural Arkansas during the 1940s and 50s. Hope you will listen.