“Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston” If you’re a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you.
"Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston” is a podcast series, colored with humor, nostalgia and pathos. It’s about a Boston tenement kid, born in 1939, clawing his way out of poverty by being hard-working, creative, persistent, entrepreneurial and by taking risks often. There are also stories of my later life in Boston, Cambridge and New England. If you like old Boston stories or Irish-American stories or old Cambridge stories, this is your podcast. If you like Pull-Yourself-Up-By-The-Bootstrap type stories and/or down-to-earth philosophy with a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you.
I am Roderick Patrick Murphy, born into a large, loving Irish family in Boston, widowed after 50+ happy years. So I am now doing some writing, volunteering and learning how to be a bachelor again.
“Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston” If you’re a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you.
What Happened to Ballroom Dancing? Episode 142.
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What Happened to Ballroom Dancing? Episode 142.
This episode wonders why ballroom dancing in Boston and beyond just about disappeared in the late 20th Century. Also some of my youthfull dancing and some of my widower dance experiences are covered. Cajun, jitterbug, foxtrot, Irish Step Dancing, and the new untrained standing and swaying kind of dancing is discussed and criticized.
p.s. Towards the end of this episode, I mention that I have appended a short video of me and my lady friend, Marina Cajun dancing at a Cajun Band event. It is meant for my Youtube friends. It will be just music for my audio friends. Sorry.
