<p>Since tomorrow is Mother's Day, this week's episode is a tribute to a very special class of mothers. Today, we'll sing the praises of mid-twentieth-century Brooklyn mothers.</p>

Since tomorrow is Mother's Day, this week's episode is a tribute to a very special class of mothers. Today, we'll sing the praises of mid-twentieth-century Brooklyn mothers.

Mid-Twentieth-Century Brooklyn Mothers: World-Class Athletes in Hush Puppies

<p>Host and creator Siobhan Barry takes listeners back to the 1950s and 1960s. Her stories, sometimes funny and sometimes serious, are time traveling trips through the days of penny candies, neighborhood ice cream parlors, fifty-cent movie tickets, air raid drills, summers without air conditioning, street games, homemade toys, football weddings, transistor radios, Beatlemania, and a cultural revolution.</p>

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Host and creator Siobhan Barry takes listeners back to the 1950s and 1960s. Her stories, sometimes funny and sometimes serious, are time traveling trips through the days of penny candies, neighborhood ice cream parlors, fifty-cent movie tickets, air raid drills, summers without air conditioning, street games, homemade toys, football weddings, transistor radios, Beatlemania, and a cultural revolution.

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Mid-Twentieth-Century Brooklyn Mothers: World-Class Athletes in Hush Puppies