THE PRIMROSE CHRONICLES

Send a text After a month long forced hiatus, The Primrose Chronicles is back with an installment celebrating a vanished occupation, the neighborhood "Paper Boy".  Host and narrator, Marty Young, fondly remembers the aspects of this now removed segment of daily life in the mid-2oth century, the newspaper carrier, a first job for many and a very necessary provider of information outside t...

Send a text Camp Allendale  as a summer church camp was representative of similar faith-based operations across the Midwest in the mid-twentieth century.  This episode of TPC pays tribute to its culture and impact on the young lives, including your host and narrator’s, as they attended annually during their Junior High  and HighSchool years.  Though the narrative is more details than tales,  it sh...

Send a text The summers of the 50’s and 60’s, for preteen boys anyway, were filled with their first experience  with our Nation’s Pastime, baseball, largely through organization of Little League.  This week’s episode briefly shares  one member of the Primrose Clan’s 4 years of participation in this iconic sports program, and , though somewhat generic, the tales should resonate with many who recall...

Send a text This episode makes an even dozen in this nostalgic podcast back into the 50's-60's.  It's focus today is the mid-summer celebration of Independence Day, July 4 as one Northeast Side neighborhood did it.   All of the devices in the title appear in the story and most in the hands of your host and narrator,  Marty Young. Many of such recordings would come with the WARNING:...

Send a text This is The Primrose Chronicles - Father’s Day edition and features is a warm and loving reminiscence  of one dad’s wisdom, instruction and chivalry that left a lasting impact on the TPC host & narrator.  The hope for this episode will be multiple salutes by many sons & daughters toward the men who led their homes, never perfectly but often selflessly.  If you were blessed by s...

Send a text Before there was Primrose, there was Capitol Ave.  Enjoy this episode with its tales of dancing parents, competing first borns,  maurading cats, talking dogs and friends in the sanitation department, all seen through the 5 year old eyes of The Primfose Chronicles host & narrator, Marty Young.  Enjoy this single installment that might explain a little of his psyche evidenced in late...

Send a text The second installment introducing listeners to the faculty of Rousseau McClellan School 91 - this time memorable instructors (to your host, anyway) of its Junior High, circa 1959-61.  An added bonus is a brief biographical sketch of the school’s namesake, Rousseau Mc clellan, at no extra coast.  Enjoy & Blessings  #indynostalgia, #60snostalgia, #50snostalgia, #schoolnostalgia, #st...

Send a text May is Race Month across Indiana and this episode takes the listener onto Primrose Ave for the annual Indianapolis 500 to see the "Greatest Spectacle" in racing was played out in his childhood. You'll go nowhere near the Speedway across town, but rather, hopefully, enjoy hearing how one neighborhood brought it up close and personal by its own reenactment of the events of...

Send a text Telling Tales Out of School” walks the TPC listener thru the halls, peeking in the classrooms of IPS Elementary School #91 to meet the teachers (Grades 2-6) of your host & narrator.  Even if you attended #91 in a different era or not at all, you’ll probably catch a glimpse of instructors you had in the caricatures portrayed. Short on the subject matter learned and long on the exper...

Send a text In this episode, Marty Young, host and narrator, has selected three experiences from literally scores involving himself and his mom, Dorothy Young, to share in a Mother’s Day salute to her. They have been culled from his childhood and adolescent years to highlight a couple of her most endearing qualities. In doing so, he not only reiterates the influence she was on his life, but also r...

Send a text This is the second part of a two-parter centering around your host and narrator's "home church" growing up, E. 49th Street Christian Church.  After offering a lengthy description of the church's campus and programming for elementary, Junior High and High School youth in Episode 4, this installment focuses on a singular event the took place in the congregation's...

Send a text Episode 4 of The Primrose Chronicles provides the necessary narrative for Episode 5, posting April 22nd, by offering the reflections your host, Marty Young, as they relate to a very important part of his growing up, upper elementary, Junior High and High School years - the people, programs and events that took place at East 49th Street Christian Church. While some of his recollections...

Send a text Episode 3, Season 1 of The Primrose Chronicles, Let's Go Find Randy,  builds on the information recounted in Episode 2 regarding automobiles and hot spot drive-ins of North East Indianapolis. In Episode 3 the host and narrator, Marty Young, tells of a fateful summer night in mid-1960's when the worlds of hoodlums and geeks, so labelled by the other, collided in an expected ev...

Send a text Episode 2 of The Primrose Chronicles describes the journey from three to two to four wheels in the life of the oldest Young sibling.   New modes of transportation brought new boundaries for exploration.    Enjoy this excursion from the years of protected childhood through first experiences of freedom and into the period of seemingly limitless boundaries - trikes to bikes to cars with m...

Send a text In this inaugural episode of Season One, THE PRIMROSE CHRONICLES, your narrator and guide, Marty Young, offers a auditory tour of the home where the Don & Dorothy Young clan did live for parts of nearly 50 years on the Northeast Side of Indianapolis. 4425 Primrose was the hub from which spread the events and activities, holidays and seasons  that the 5 Young'ns experienced as...