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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140 -The Climate Underground with Al Gore and Alice Waters
139 - Waiting for Joe DiMaggio
138 - The Keepers - Archive Fever, with host Frances McDormand
137- The Keepers - Archiving the Underground, with Host Frances McDormand
136 - The Lou Reed Archive with Laurie Anderson
135 - Deep Fried Fuel - A Biodiesel Kitchen Vision - Celebrating Over the Road
133 - WHER - 1000 Beautiful Watts, The First All-Girl Radio Station in the Nation
133 - Theaster Gates — Keeping the South Side
132 - The Pancake Years
131 - Night of the Living Intern: First Stories from Kitchen Sisters Interns
130 - Lipstick Traces — Dreaming in Public
129 - Martin Scorsese — Try Anything
128 - First Day of School—1960, New Orleans
127 - Robert Krulwich—Talking Story, The First Third Coast
126 - Lawrence Weschler—Archivist of the Odd, the Marvelous, the Passionate and Slightly Askew
125 - The Passion of Chris Strachwitz—Arhoolie Records
124 - The Brothers Burns — A Conversation with Filmmakers Ken & Ric Burns
123- San Francisco—Stories from the Model City, Part Three
122 - Burning Man — Archiving the Ephemeral
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