Podcast
From Maclay to Zama
Hosted by Karen Miller · EN
History Podcast based on letters written home from Japan during the Korean War by two very different sisters.
10episodes
Episodes
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Ep 53- Stuffing Pucks
Nov 2700:40:00Tap to summarizeHappy Thanksgiving! In this episode it is January in Japan and Peg's love-life has hit the skids again. Oh well! More shopping, another earthquake and talk of moving from Maclay Street!
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Ep 52 Six Months to Go!
Nov 700:30:07Tap to summarizeChristmas sounds good. The new club opening was quite the event, but then New Years was a bust. Boring companions and a sick kid doesn't sound like much fun!
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Ep 51-The Keys of a Piano
Nov 200:31:29Tap to summarizeIn this first episode of season 4- it is all about Christmas. Sounds like every day in December they are receiving packages and gifts from PA. They both are enjoying their jobs and Peg is dating a new guy. The story about the puppet show is hilarious!
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Episode 50-EZ Pop
Aug 3100:27:50Tap to summarizeEZ pop popcorn must be a new invention, and the girls received some from their Aunt Pete. I can just picture them giggling while they figure out how it works! They have had their last Thanksgiving in Japan, received their Christmas box and Peg was introduced to a 4-star General. Great 50th Episode!
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Episode 49-Looking At A Typewriter
Aug 2300:36:04Tap to summarizeA Peg quote from this group of letters "I still feel that looking at a typewriter for 8 hours a day is 20,000 times better than looking at some silly man for 50 years!" Wow Peg- how did you really feal about marriage?
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Episode 48- Nikko
Aug 400:30:43Tap to summarizeBern visits a lovely resort (Kanaya) and the temples at Nikko. She sees the famous "See No Evil" monkeys, rants about cheating officers, Peg talks about "hush-hush" war games called "Texas Ranger" and their friend Kathy leaves for the States.
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Episode 47 San Francisco
Jun 2000:40:40Tap to summarizeTheir friend, Kathy is breaking her contract and going home to San Francisco. Bern describes a typical Saturday at Zama in great detail. Their Christmas gifts are on their way to Pennsylvania and they include an article explaining how schools run in Japan.
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Episode 46 Metamorphosis
Jun 1700:38:52Tap to summarizeSo the diet didn't provide the "metamorphosis" they wanted- just hallucinations. The typhoon season was harsh but they made it through and this episode contains one of Peg's funniest letters ever!
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Episode 45 Typhoon June
Jun 1300:33:42Tap to summarizePeg downplays the effects of one of the most dangerous typhoons to ever hit Japan- "we are OK", MIGs shoot down a jet, and Labor Day festivities are a bust.
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Episode 44- Rigsby's Reckless Rush
Jun 1000:45:31Tap to summarizeGladys provides us with a detailed description of the Mount Fuji climb, there is a spat of some sort going on back on Maclay Street, and Bern actually breaks the rules (sends home a picture taken at work)..
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