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WINNETKA: A Memoir

  • 10. Corrections

    1 APR 2019 · While going through our father’s files after the funeral, Sam finds stunning information about Dad’s ancestry that bounces crazily off of our mother’s. But Dad had altered his legacy. Also, his overt appreciation of my daughters has a healing effect.
    18m 38s
  • Bonus Episode: A Preface To Revelation

    28 MAR 2019 · Dad's presence would be more keenly felt after the revelations that followed his funeral...
    11m 22s
  • 9. The Ice Storm

    25 MAR 2019 · I regret missing Woodstock, and resolve to tune in, turn on and drop out. Soon, all but one of us have left or been expelled from school. Dad melts down, then rebounds and moves his family to New York, marking the end of our childhood.
    32m 31s
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    Bonus Story: Drug Reboot

    21 MAR 2019 · You really want to smoke pot? It's strong as f**k these days!
    6m 55s
  • 8. Strange Land

    18 MAR 2019 · Just as Papa Harper dies of alcoholism, Dad gets promoted and moves his reluctant family to the east coast. Billy and Diana and I go to college, seeking sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll, while the younger three are miserable in their new home.Just as Papa Harper dies of alcoholism, Dad gets promoted and moves his reluctant family to the east coast. Billy and Diana and I go to college, seeking sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll, while the younger three are miserable in their new home.
    32m 8s
  • Bonus Story: What We Wore

    14 MAR 2019 · You could just hear their golf clubs rattle as their parents realized their daughters were sleeping with hippies.
    5m 14s
  • 7. Faith

    11 MAR 2019 · JFK’s assassination in ‘62 marks a sea change. I lose faith, while big sister Diana finds it, and marches for civil rights. My brothers commit a string of petty crimes, and Billy becomes the first to push back against Dad’s anger.  
    30m 21s
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    Bonus Story: Dancing School

    7 MAR 2019 · I had crossed a threshold, and Mom was on the other side.
    5m 16s
  • 6. Survival

    4 MAR 2019 · By 1962, my little brothers emulate their father’s work ethic while they fear his unpredictable rages. But the Cuban Missile Crisis makes us aware of greater dangers in the world outside our home.
    28m 56s
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    Bonus Story: Colorado

    28 FEB 2019 · As was customary in our family, I opted out of confrontation in favor of the harbor-resentment-for-life plan.
    6m 48s

WINNETKA is a ten-episode memoir created and produced by award-winning actress Jessica Harper, with original music. The podcast features the voices of the Harper family, who share in the telling...

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WINNETKA is a ten-episode memoir created and produced by award-winning actress Jessica Harper, with original music. The podcast features the voices of the Harper family, who share in the telling of their remarkable story.

WINNETKA tells of six Harper kids coming of age in Eisenhower’s post-war America, in a Chicago suburb called Winnetka. The siblings are buffeted by the rages of a father with PTSD, challenged by life in a big family, rocked by social change in the sixties, and ultimately stunned by a long held family secret.
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