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Intro to Sheila Stories with Host and Storyteller Pat Kelly

Intro to Sheila Stories with Host and Storyteller Pat Kelly

FromSunLit Story Time


Intro to Sheila Stories with Host and Storyteller Pat Kelly

FromSunLit Story Time

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Length:
4 minutes
Released:
Jul 22, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Do you love Australians?
Do you love the greatest generation? The men and women who did their part to fight and win World War II?
Or maybe you just love adventure stories with a strong female lead.
If any of these describes you, listen in because you’ll love the Sheila Stories.
Here is a quick overview: 
The framework is a classic story within story:
The outer layer is formed by a widower—Thomas—and his two young daughters, Natalie and April. Thomas is concerned because the girls don’t have a strong female figure in their lives, so he starts telling them the Sheila Stories, a series of adventures involving an Australian woman in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.
But Sheila is no ordinary woman
At the age of eighteen, she comes into some money and leaves a comfortable home in Sydney to buy a sheep farm in Queensland.
At that’s just the beginning for during the course of the stories, Sheila
Befriends aboriginal farm workers
Learns to shoot a rifle
Almost drowns
Fights dingos and a poisonous snake
Buys a ten thousand acre cattle station
Dances to big band music in Toowoomba
Joins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW 2
Drives an ambulance
Risks her life to save another
Helps disabled servicemen
Marries a soldier
Moves to America
Runs a bed and breakfast in Cape May New Jersey
Teaches patience to a child
And opens a surf shop
  
I invite you to put your cares aside for thirty minutes a week and join me on a great journey.
Strike out to find your fortune at the age of eighteen.
Fight for a worthy cause.
Fall in love.
Experience the heartbreak of loss.
Laugh. Cry. Feel the salt air on your face as you ride your surfboard on the beaches of Sydney.
You just might have the time of your life.
 
Released:
Jul 22, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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Your go-to source of feel good entertainment! Fictional 15 minute short stories that leave you feeling great.