132 - The Pancake Years

The Kitchen Sisters Present

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

For five years Davia’s father, Lenny Nelson, asked her to go to Rattlesden, England, to visit the Air Force base where he was stationed during WWII and to find an old photograph hanging in the town pub honoring his 8th Air Force squadron. It was still there, over 50 years later, he told her. Finally, one fine Sunday, Davia headed out in search of the pub and a piece of her father’s past—the piece he was proudest of.

Lenny died on Christmas Eve 2015. In his honor, we share the journey with you.

Samuel Shelton Robinson helped produce this story with The Kitchen Sisters. He’s from London. It seemed only right.

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0:00.0	Radio Tophia, welcome to the Kitchen Sisters Present.
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1:00.8	Today on Christmas Eve the Kitchen Sisters present the Pancake Years.
1:08.0	Davia here with Nicki sending you and your family our best as the year turns.
1:14.0	Four years ago today, my father, Lenny Nelson, passed.
1:18.0	It was a sunny afternoon in Los Angeles,
1:21.0	bright, windy, big billowing clouds in the sky. The sun
1:25.3	shimmered on the Pacific. Lenny was 92 and the last thing he wanted to do was
1:30.5	die. On his 90th birthday he had announced he was going to live to be 100.
1:36.0	I called this time in his life the pancake years. If you were looking for Lenny you would
1:41.0	either find him watching Rachel Maddow or contributing to Planned Parenthood, the ACLU and the Nation magazine, or eating a stack of hot cakes. He was in his groove. But things took a hard turn and there we were on December 24th
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