61 – Rattlesden

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🗓️ 27 December 2016

⏱️ 23 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 last year. 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 Topia, welcome to the Kitchen Sisters Presently.
0:04.2	We're the Kitran Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nicki Silva.
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1:13.2	Thank you very much.
1:14.4	You're listening to fugitive waves,
1:20.5	lost recordings and shards of sound, along with new tales of remarkable people from around the world.
1:26.0	We're the Kitchen Sisters, Nicki Silva, and Davia Nelson.
1:30.0	Here's Davia.
1:32.0	A few years back, I fell in love with a man who lives in London.
1:37.0	Every few weeks or months he would come to see me in San Francisco or I would fly there to stay with him.
1:43.0	When my father, Lenny, a World War II veteran, realized I was commuting back and forth to London,
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