Letters From Dockery
37 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago -Letters from Dockery is a Podcast of Letters Written by Raymond E. Dockery to Bohnda Porter Akins, Read by their Grandson 100 years later. The letters describe life in Lewistown, Montana, from the point of view of a small town lawyer. Dockery enlisted in the Army in mid-1917 and fought in World War I in France until the end of the war, and a year beyond.
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033 12 2 17 "Chances are Good"
January 15, 2018 04:38 - 3 minutes - 3.08 MB032-11 29 17 "I Want to Go To Confession"
January 15, 2018 04:38 - 3 minutes - 3.09 MB031 11 28 17 - "Don't Forget Music"
January 15, 2018 04:36 - 1 minute - 2.01 MB030 - 11.28.17 - Letter from Bohnda
January 08, 2018 04:30 - 3 minutes - 5.39 MBThe first and perhaps only letter from Bohnda to Ray in the collection
-Master-Episode-029 - 11.25.17 - 22Stand Apart and Holler22 - 1718 9.00 PM
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-Master-Episode-028 - 11.24.17 - 22Quarantined22 - 1718 8.58 PM
January 08, 2018 04:28 - 5 minutes - 8.11 MB00000136 00000144 00001FF3 00002228 0002707D 0002707D 00007A90 00007EB8 0002932F 0002932F
-Master-Episode-027 - 10.23.17 - 22Am Pretty Tired . . .22 - 101317 8.17 PM
October 23, 2017 04:00 - 1 minute - 2.63 MB00000138 0000013C 000022D3 00002303 000031E5 000031E5 00007D53 00007D53 0001150A 0001150A
-Master-Episode-026 - 10.19.17 - 22They Both Took Up the Same Beat22 - 101317 8.10 PM
October 19, 2017 04:00 - 2 minutes - 3.75 MB00000191 000001A1 000067F6 000067F6 00007572 00007572 00007D33 00007E5F 00007572 00015505
025 10 17 17 "Let These Maniacs Shoot Me Sick Again"
October 17, 2017 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.34 MB024 10 16 17 "Like Doing Penance"
October 16, 2017 04:00 - 4 minutes - 4.01 MB023 10 12 17 "More Later"
October 13, 2017 03:15 - 1 minute - 1.58 MB022 10 09 17 "If I Land it, You Can Salute Me"
October 13, 2017 03:14 - 2 minutes - 2.39 MB-Master-Episode-021 - 10.01.17 - 22An Unfathomable Love Light22 - 92417 10.02 PM
October 01, 2017 16:00 - 6 minutes - 8.61 MB0000013C 0000014A 00002B28 00002E22 000154D0 000154D0 00007A84 00007EAC 000154D0 000154D0
-Master-Episode-020 - 9.29.17 - 22Also We Were Vaccinated22 - 92417 9.46 PM
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019 - 9 28 17 "A Wife a Thousand Miles Away!"
September 28, 2017 04:00 - 5 minutes - 5.08 MB018 - 9 27 17 "The World Looks So Bright"
September 27, 2017 04:00 - 8 minutes - 7.51 MB017 - 9/26/17 "Oh Boy!"
September 26, 2017 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.76 MB016 - 9/24/17 "Arriving at Camp"
September 24, 2017 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.76 MB015-9/23/17 "On the Train"
September 23, 2017 04:00 - 4 minutes - 4.28 MB014 - 9/15/17 - "Happy Anniversary"
September 16, 2017 02:38 - 7 minutes - 6.61 MB000 3 "Dockery Comes to Lewistown "
September 11, 2017 04:13 - 20 minutes - 16.9 MB000 2 "J H Akins, Louise Cresap and the Golden Rule Stores"
May 03, 2017 02:11 - 18 minutes - 15.1 MBAt the turn of the century, J.H. Akins and Louise Cresap Akins arrive in Lewistown, Montana by way of Humansville, Missouri. They have their two year old daughter, Bohnda in tow. They would soon prosper in the rich civic life of Lewistown.
000.1 - Background Episode - Lewistown History
April 23, 2017 22:21 - 10 minutes - 8.84 MB012 - 2/18/17: "It Just Happened."
April 10, 2017 02:49 - 6 minutes - 5.99 MB011 - 2/17/17: "You Want a Love Letter, You Say. . ."
April 10, 2017 02:47 - 2 minutes - 2.55 MB010 - 2/14/17: "I have no Real Fears for my Future, and am Bold Enough to Ask You to Place Yours in Pawn with Mine . . . "
April 03, 2017 03:55 - 8 minutes - 6.98 MB009 - 2/13/17: "As Though I've Been Cheated Out of the Only Real Pleasure I Know. . . "
April 03, 2017 03:54 - 2 minutes - 2.8 MB008 - 2/10/17: "You Seem to Have a Fertile Field . . . "
April 03, 2017 03:54 - 6 minutes - 5.51 MB007 -2/8/17: "I Wonder if I Will Get A Letter Today"
February 06, 2017 04:16 - 3 minutes - 3.22 MBDockery steals a friend's car and gets it stuck in a snowbank. He wonders if Bohnda will respond to his outburst in his previous letter.
006-2/6/17: "I Found Myself Cursing, Softly but Eloquently"
February 06, 2017 04:14 - 7 minutes - 6.63 MBDockery did not know he was the jealous type. But when he receives Bohnda's letter about two other men plying her for sympathy, he erupts in concern.
004.1-1/22/17: "I Have a Client, . . ."
January 22, 2017 21:27 - 3 minutes - 3.49 MBDockery is at work on a Sunday morning, as he may have a client. . .
005 - 1/23/17: "Your Dad Is Right, Honey"
January 17, 2017 05:01 - 7 minutes - 6.48 MBSomething has happened between Bohnda and her mother, and Dockery offers his support and advice. Dockery has his first client, and makes plans to go to Fort Benton. It's not time, we learn, "to spill the beans."
004-1/17/17: "I Have Heard Some Things About Miles City"
January 17, 2017 04:58 - 4 minutes - 3.79 MBDockery hears that Miles City is "a wide open town," and worries his sweetheart is staying there.
003-1/15/17: "A Friend is not Much Good Unless. . ."
January 12, 2017 05:06 - 4 minutes - 3.83 MBDockery considers a friend's request to be "used" to help him with a homestead claim.
002-1/14/1917: "Until the Testing Fires . . ."
January 06, 2017 03:56 - 7 minutes - 8.13 MBDockery responds to a letter, which he liked so much but also hurt so much.