#157 Guests Jane Little Botkin, Lynn Downey, Janelle Molony

2025-10-17

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UNCOVERING FAMILY SECRETS Three Award-Winning Authors Join Hosts Jim Bell and Bobbi Jean Bell Three dynamic authors, members of “The Hottie Historian Collective,” join us for the first of two October appearances. Meet award-winning authors JANE LITTLE BOTKIN, LYNN DOWNEY, and JANELLE MOLONY. According to Janelle, “We’ve all dipped into our own family histories to give a voice to some incredible characters with mysteries or scandals to their names.” We talk about their titles: Jane Little Botkin – The Pink Dress, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen

UNCOVERING FAMILY SECRETS
Three Award-Winning Authors Join Hosts Jim Bell and Bobbi Jean Bell

Three dynamic authors, members of “The Hottie Historian Collective,” join us for the first of two October appearances. Meet award-winning authors JANE LITTLE BOTKIN, LYNN DOWNEY, and JANELLE MOLONY. According to Janelle, “We’ve all dipped into our own family histories to give a voice to some incredible characters with mysteries or scandals to their names.”

We talk about their titles:

Jane Little Botkin – The Pink Dress, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen

Lynn Downey – Arequipa Sanatorium: Life in California’s Lung Resort for Women

Janelle Molony – Poems from the Asylum

Meet the Authors

Jane Little Botkin

Lynn Downey

Janelle Molony

Hosts - Jim and Bobbi Jean Bell
Opening and Closing Music - Hot Texas courtesy of Alex Dormont and the Hot Texas Swing Band
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Aired October 16, 2025

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