Peter Smith's Podcast: Recent Episodes

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In which Margaret Mary Monahan goes to confession and Father Flynn tells all.

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Last summer up at the lake... And summer starting to edge toward fall...

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An old man and some old memories in the middle of the night.

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In which Carl Spangler comes to terms with the one part of himself he can't BS.

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The art of the sad stupid little midlife affair

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Chicago guy. New York society gal. Summer afternoon by a pool in Connecticut.

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Stump and Ev get a sitter and enjoy an evening out and some good news.

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The spirit (and spirits) of the slowest river in Illinois.

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Young man helps old man with a few things.

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Backyards and boyhood ala 1962.

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This episode is chock full of backstory... Including exactly where Stump Padgett came from.

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Bitsy Bates living the good life... Sort of...

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Connecticut as seen from Union Valley.

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Unhappy at work, unhappy wife at home, the quietly desperate Union Valley man with the perfect life.

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Union Valley's old town doctor tries to create Union Valley's new town doctor -- and a legacy.

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Margaret Mary rides the North Shore line to Union Valley to snoop around Turner's world.

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A beautiful summer day, a beautiful baby and the start of a beautiful lifelong friendship at the Bide-A-While Trailer Park out towards Grayslake.

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Father Slaughter and his faith...

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Harry Stroud opens the cabin for the summer. Fresh air, blue skies and some unwelcome news.

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Margaret Mary thinks she's in a relationship with Turner. Turner is in a relationship with his writing.

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Nice little story about not-so-nice Arlene Wallace. She's still got a little mischief going in her old age.

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Once a mongrel infantry sergeant always a mongrel infantry sergeant. Part of Roscoe Bates can never come home.

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Will Turner and Author -- two short story writers -- talk short story writing at Shawn's.

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Red and white 55 Bel Air convertible. Red 61 650 BSA. Two men doing favors for one another.

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"Author" as catcher. His notes on how to pitch the no-good bunch of punks playing on the Bart's Buick team.

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An equation becomes an epiphany.

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An afternoon in the life of Union Valley's undertaker.

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Margaret Mary Monahan and Will Turner in the somewhat orange afterglow of they're-not-sure-what.

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Do we owe it to our community's past to keep it's secrets?

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A glimpse into pharmacist Harry Shawn

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A mother-daughter talk...

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Meanwhile, downtown at the Chicago Daily News, a South Side Irish girl has her eye on a Union Valley boy.

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Jerry Tate's big promotion. And his trip home in the Milwaukee Road smoker car.

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Arlene Wallace entertains a guest.

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In the spring, Harry Stroud's fancy briefly turns to thoughts of an old flame.

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A mambos and memories after dinner.

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Four young men, (old friends), reunite, catch up and kill a bottle of bourbon out in Doc Spangler's carriage house-turned-garage.

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In which 96 year old Robert Trebelman serves Tuesday morning low mass... and looks back on life.

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Episode two from Peter Smith's Union Valley 1962.

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Inaugural Podcast from Union Valley 1962, short stories by Peter Smith