Extended Family
UnFictional
KCRW
4.4 • 923 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
There's a house in Oakland where dozens of people have lived for decades… even though most of them have been dead for years.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional. |
| 0:06.0 | Unfictional is a program of stories and original documentaries from KCRW's independent |
| 0:14.8 | producer project and today on the program we're recognizing that part of the year |
| 0:19.7 | when we spend time not only with those closest to us but also with some people we barely |
| 0:25.4 | know our extended family the in-laws the second cousins and the third husbands the |
| 0:31.8 | new girlfriends. |
| 0:33.0 | Somehow everybody ends up together eating the same ham sitting around the same tree. |
| 0:37.0 | On this episode of the program, two stories of extended families. |
| 0:42.0 | Beginning with this story about home and love. stories of extended families. |
| 0:42.7 | Beginning with this story about home and love |
| 0:45.6 | and a family of ghosts. |
| 0:48.6 | Well, maybe not ghosts exactly. |
| 0:50.8 | Let's just say, spirits. And these spirits, they all live in a 140-year-old |
| 0:58.0 | house in West Oakland, California. It all started with a man named Renee Richard, a Louisiana migrant who bought the house in the mid- 1940s, |
| 1:07.0 | and at first it was just for Renee and his wife and their three children. |
| 1:11.0 | But the family needed some extra income. |
| 1:14.0 | So around the start of the Korean War, the Richards turned part of their home into a boarding house, |
| 1:19.5 | men only. |
| 1:21.1 | This house on Adeline Street was open like that for about 40 years. A lot of people came. |
| 1:25.6 | They stayed and they ate and they lived and then they moved on. But what do people leave behind when they go? |
| 1:33.0 | Anything? Any part of themselves? |
| 1:37.0 | Renee's granddaughter, Joanne Bell, lives in that house now. |
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