Love Sweetie Podcast

This is a special bonus episode of the Love Sweetie Podcast, released on July 4, 2026 (the 250th Anniversary of July 4, 1776).  This episode reviews the history of the scribe of the Declaration of Independence, Timothy Matlack, and Sweetie and Lew's connection to this founding father from Philadelphia. Happy 250th Birthday, America! (The next new full episode of the Love Sweetie Podcast will...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, Sweetie finally answers the questionnaire that her father, Chester, had sent to her at least a couple of months earlier.  In this questionnaire she answers basic questions about her life in Doylestown, and her responses paint a picture of the town in the early 1950's.  She then writes a smaller letter to the rest of the family, noting tha...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, Sweetie writes to her family two letters from late May and early June 1952.  She recounts her attempt to get her roof fixed, as the company that had supposedly fixed it some time earlier had not done a complete job.  Her interaction with the men at the roofing company surprises them, and they agree to return to fix their earlier work.  Sweetie...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, Sweetie writes about what was occurring at her home in Doylestown in May 1952.  She provides updates on the work that she and her husband, Lew, are doing on their property - specifically filling in an old well that had become a hazard to others, regardless of the protest of Miss Darst.  Then we review three postcards from Sweetie's father...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, Sweetie writes about what was occurring at her home in Doylestown in late April and early May 1952.  Specifically, her sister-in-law, Elizabeth, goes on vacation for two weeks to Florida while her husband is at a newspaperman's convention, leaving her mother (Sweetie's mother-in-law) to take care of her three young children alone in...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, Sweetie writes about what was occurring at her home in Doylestown immediately after Easter 1952, and then in the second letter, she writes to her family a story about an issue that had been occurring at the Doylestown Public School involving one of Lewis' first grade classmates and their first grade class teacher, Mrs. Houck.   Finally, a...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, Sweetie answers questions from her family in the first letter and in the second letter, we learn that her son, Lewis, had the measles during Easter 1952.  Additionally, we review a penny postal card that Sweetie's father, Chester Demaree, M.D., sent to her sister, Jeanne, and examine his unique handwriting, as well as the postmark and sta...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, we review two letters that Sweetie wrote in early April 1952.  In these letters, she comments about some of the work that she is doing around the house (including fighting more poison ivy on her property), notes information about a car accident that happened on Main Street., and while she is relieved that her father, Chester Demaree, M.D., is...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, we review four pieces of correspondence from March 1952 - we start with two letters from Sweetie to her family, and then two messages from her father, Chester Demaree, M.D., follow.  In the first two letters, Sweetie is clearly trying to convince her father, who was seriously ill in the preceding weeks, to stay in Des Moines with her sister an...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, we review four pieces of correspondence from March 1952 - we start with two messages from Sweetie's father, Chester Demaree, M.D., in Lacona, Iowa, and then we continue with Sweetie's narrative on March 20, 1952.  The first letter is her family circular in which she notes what's been happening in Doylestown at home.  However, it...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, we review three of Sweetie's letters from March 1952 that she wrote in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.   Increasingly, Sweetie is becoming concerned with her father's health - that he is suffering from a medical issue in regards to his heart - and she is stressed that she cannot be there in Iowa to keep an eye on him.  So she writes three...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, we review three letters from February and March 1952 - two are from Sweetie's father, Chester Demaree, M.D., who is writing from Iowa, and the third is from Sweetie, who is writing from Doylestown.  Sweetie writes an update regarding her health and recounts a tale that she hears from Lew about something that happened at the Naval base (NA...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, we review three letters from February 1952 - two are from Sweetie, and one was written by Sweetie's father, Chester, who is writing from Iowa.  In the first letter, Sweetie updates all her siblings on her life in Doylestown and various activities.  She recounts a particular matter having to do with Miss Darst who invites an antique dealer...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, we review two letters from February 1952.  In the first letter, Sweetie updates all her siblings on her life in Doylestown and various activities.  In the second letter, Sweetie writes specifically to her sister, Jeanne, and her brother-in-law, Glen, and reveals that her husband, Lew, has been at sickbay at the base.  The doctors there are not...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, we review two letters from January 1952.  The first is from Sweetie's father, Chester Demaree, M.D., who writes a brief note to his daughter Elizabeth, and gives a few pieces of information about his wedding in the early 1900's.  The second letter, written by Sweetie in Doylestown, Pennsylvania in secret to her sister, Jeanne, in Des...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, Sweetie writes a big letter to her family in January 1952, describing her Christmas holiday in 1951.  We learn more about her home life and family in this episode. Check out the website at www.lovesweetiepodcast.com for the family tree, overall timeline of her story, and information on the previous episodes to catch up as you are able to - the...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, Sweetie writes a big letter to her family in January 1952, describing her Christmas holiday in 1951.  We learn more about her home life and family in this episode. Check out the website at www.lovesweetiepodcast.com for the family tree, overall timeline of her story, and information on the previous episodes to catch up as you are able to - the...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, Sweetie writes letters to her family in November and December 1951.  She writes to her father asking for advice on her son's illnesses and the medicine she is using, and then starts to prepare for Christmas 1951.  Additionally, we learn that Miss Darst left Doylestown that holiday season with her nephew, Brower Murphy to spend Christmas w...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, Sweetie writes letters to her family in November 1951.  She writes first of how her son, Lewis, was very sick that fall, and then she proceeds into a long description of Lewis' experience in first grade at the Doylestown Public School.  She writes of him learning to write, how his teacher (Mrs. Houk) treats him, stories she hears of what...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, Sweetie writes letters to her family in August and November 1951, and talks about her life in her new home in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.  We learn that Sweetie's sister-in-law, Elizabeth, has had her third child - a baby girl, and has moved her family to Norristown, Pennsylvania.  We also hear from Sweetie's father, Chester (in Lacona...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  In this episode, Sweetie writes letters to her family in August 1951, and talks about her life in her new home in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, as well as her interactions with the individual who is now boarding with her family - Miss Darst.    Sweetie also reflects on her son, Lewis, who will start school (first grade) in September 1951.  Additionally, we learn m...

Welcome to the Love Sweetie Podcast!  This is the season premiere episode of Season 3!  In this episode, Sweetie and her family move in summer 1951 to Doylestown, Pennsylvania, having taken an opportunity to live in a bigger house that will help them with their growing antiques business.  That being said, the 90-year old woman who had previously lived there, Miss Darst, is to live with their famil...

This is the Season 2 finale of the Love Sweetie Podcast!  This episode features nine pieces of correspondence written by Jeanne, Sweetie, Chester, and Laura in June, July, and August 1951.  In the first full letter of the collection from Jeanne herself, we learn about Jeanne's wedding to Glen Joss, Sweetie writes a letter indicating that her and her family's life in Pennsylvania has chan...

This episode features two letters written by Sweetie in March and early April 1951.  In this episode, we get updates about what has been occurring at Sweetie's home in Hatboro, Pennsylvania and her various activities - including searching for more antiques.  Meanwhile, Elizabeth's mother-in-law, Mrs. Brown, passes away after having been at the local hospital for several weeks.  There is...

The Love Sweetie Podcast is a unique historical project that features real letters from Kathryn Frances Demaree Graham a.k.a. "Sweetie" that were written during her lifetime.  These authentic letters are narrated and commented on by the hosts of the show (who give context on what is being discussed).   This episode features four letters written by Sweetie in February and March 1951.  In...