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rurallib

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Fri Dec 19, 2025, 11:55 AM Dec 19

Remember The Vinyl Cafe from Canadian story teller Stuart McLean? [View all]

Our local NPR station used to carry it on Saturday nights before McLean's death in 2017.

His stories were gentle with some real at home humor as he told stories of Dave, his wife Morley and children Sam and Stephanie as they lived a middle class life in Ontario I believe.

Some of his most memorable stories told tales of Christmas adventures that always got me to laughing wildly. Most stories last about 25 minutes or less and offer a chance to leave this world for a few minutes. So for the next week I will post a Vinyl Cafe story of Christmas.

Let's start with "Dave Cooks The Turkey" which seems to reappear in later tales: (22 minutes)

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I discovered him during Covid Marthe48 Dec 19 #1
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