My guest for this episode of the Guest Friends podcast is long-time family friend: Eva Wesman - who was born in 1927 (which means she is 91 years young at the time of this interview!) in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Yooper!). I met up with Eva in a rehab clinic where she was recovering from a recent injury - and she was especially gracious to be interviewed in between therapies. Truth be told - since we both enjoy telling stories - we talked non-stop for almost 2.5 hours! That conversation has been edited for timely presentation and here you will find Part 2 where we focus on Eva's remembrances during the World War II era and through her young adulthood in the latter part of the 1940s and 50s. Amongst other insights, Eva shares her exploits as a semi-professional hitch-hiker (in a pre-Uber world) in order to attend weekend dances; how spending the night at a funeral home is "spooky as all get out"; and why wearing a borrowed wedding dress is a good strategy to meet your future spouse at a train depot (Michigan Central Station).
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LINKS RELATED TO THIS EPISODE:
Logo Credit: Saint-Creative.com
Music Credit: Of Asaph (James Alleman)
"Inspired By" Voiceover: Eric Dorman
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES:
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941 State of the Union Address "The Four Freedoms" (January 6, 1941)
Norman Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" paintings
Combat medics of WWII
Michigan Central Station (train depot)
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