This episode centers on a small “Forget Me Not” booklet from around the 1950s or ’60s. A congratulatory keepsake written as if from a new baby’s perspective.

Page by page, it moves through everyday moments, appropriate to the time, capturing the early pieces of a life just beginning. A lot has changed when it comes to parenting.

It was meant to be a record. Something to be held on to. Only it wasn’t. So let’s listen in on what it has to say.

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A 1909 postcard sent from Wetumka, Oklahoma, with a short handwritten message and a printed verse, leads us back to the work of Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

This episode looks at the poem behind the postcard & what it took for her published early on.

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A small wax paper bag from 1977 is creased, worn, & was probably never meant to be kept. It leads us back to a craft store in Omaha, Nebraska where they are still offering ways to encourage you to say, “And I made it myself.”

Through old newspaper ads, a changing storefront, and even something called “that awful tunnel,” this episode briefly follows the story of Mangelsen’s. From its beginnings as a Ben Franklin to the creative destination it still is today.

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