What happens
In the small Massachusetts town of Rakeshire, druggist Solomon Humbert and widow Mary Conklin have quarreled with each other since a 1927 Fourth of July picnic, when their children, Billy Humbert and Maggie Conklin, began their long feud. Years later, the two families still bicker, and the grown Billy and Maggie keep clashing. Solomon and Mary decide to try a harmless remedy on their children, and the drugstore's sassafras mead becomes the talk of the town. Martha Scott, William Holden, Faye Bainter and Frank Craven star in this comedy, a Gulf Screen Guild Theater broadcast adapted by Charles Tazbel from a story by Helen Deutsch. The episode, aired December 29, 1940, is in the Screen Guild Theater series, and it also includes a presentation of the Red Book Award.
The town of Rakeshire, Massachusetts, from a 1927 Fourth of July picnic to later years in the town square and drugstore
Characters: Solomon Humbert, Mary Conklin, Billy Humbert, Maggie Conklin
Listen for: Solomon's proposal and Mary's sassafras mead scheme, and the two children's first argument at the Fourth of July picnic
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.