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Michael G. Sievers

The Silver King's War

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The Silver King's War

Michael G. Sievers

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This bonus episode is the conclusion of The Silver King's War podcast series. Michael G. Sievers, the writer, producer & creator of The Silver King's War, talks about his family's history and twelve years of research & writing to build the podc
This episode is scene five of The Sievers, the third play in The Silverfields of Northbrook  trilogy. It's summer 1960 on Gregg Road. During a spectacular & busy season of Glencoe Beach visits and little league games, Stanley & Shirley share di
As The Silverfields of Northbrook and the entire podcast series reaches its conclusion later this month, this bonus episode offers a brief, final review of Stanley Silverfield's life as the Silver King during his Second World War.  Michael G. S
This episode is scene four in The Sievers, the third play in The Silverfields of Northbrook trilogy. It's early winter 1960 on Gregg Road. A heavy snow storm has hit the cul-de-sac as Stanley prepares to make sales calls.  First, however, he ca
This episode is the third scene in The Sievers, the final play in The Silverfields of Northbrook  trilogy.  It's early June, 1959.  Michael Silverfield visits Chicago and joins his uncle, Norman Gordon and almost-cousin Scott Fleischman, for a
This episode is the second scene in The Sievers, the third play in The Silverfields of Northbrook trilogy.   Michael Silverfield played five seasons in the Northbrook Little League: two in the minors, three in the big time.  His pitching hero w
This episode is the first scene of The Sievers, the third play in The Silverfields of Northbrook  trilogy.  It's summer 1959.  Cindy Silverfield is the family's Beautiful Swimmer, a powerful child churning through Lake Michigan's white cap curl
This episode introduces The Sievers, the final play in The Silverfields of Northbrook  trilogy.  This is the family's last glorious summer on Gregg Road.  Stanley accepts a large new sales territory for Bailey's Beauty Supplies in northern Illi
This episode follows the conclusion of Wrigley Days, the second play in The Silverfields of Northbrook trilogy, with a special reading by the young narrator, Michael Silverfield.  Thirty years after the Bears won the 1963 NFL Championship, beat
This episode is the final scene in Wrigley Days, the second play in The Silverfields of Northbrook trilogy.  It's November 1959.  The Bailey & Gordon families have season tickets. Norman Gordon invites Stanley & Michael Silverfield to join his
This episode is the fourth scene in Wrigley Days, the second play in The Silverfields of Northbrook trilogy.  It's fall 1958.  The World Series is over and the Gregg Road footballers are preparing for a weekend game in the Levy's backyard.  Muc
This episode is Scene three in Wrigley Days, the second play in The Silverfields of Northbrook  trilogy. It's late summer 1958. Cindy Silverfield, 7, visits Aunt Phyllis Gordon (Shirley's older sister) in Chicago as they shop for just the right
This episode is the second scene in Wrigley Days, the second play of The Silverfields of Northbrook trilogy. Each summer, Michael & Cindy enjoyed a family day with the Bernsteins & Gordons at their respective country clubs, Green Acres and Bryn
This episode is the first scene in Wrigley Days, the second play in The Silverfields of Northbrook trilogy.   It's summer 1956. The family visits Glencoe Beach, a short drive east from Gregg Road over the Edens Expressway to Lake Michigan's edg
This episode is the introduction to Wrigley Days, the second play in The Silverfields of Northbrook  trilogy.  Chicago's Wrigley Field, an iconic sports venue, was home to the Silverfield's favorite teams, the Cubs and Bears, the Monsters of th
This episode is scene five in The Suburbs, the first play in The Silverfields of Northbrook trilogy. It's spring 1956. Stanley has a new job selling wholesale beauty supplies for his uncles, Abe & Joe Bailey, owners of Bailey's Beauty Supplies
This episode is scene four in the first play, The Suburbs, in The Silverfields of Northbrook trilogy.  It's late summer 1955. The family has moved from Chicago's lake front to Northbrook, a growing north shore suburb. The Silverfields have met
This episode is scene three in the first play, The Suburbs, in The Silverfields of Northbrook trilogy.  It's early summer 1955. The family has moved from Chicago's lake front to Northbrook, a growing north shore suburb. The Silverfields meet th
This episode is scene two in The Suburbs, the first play in The Silverfields of Northbrook trilogy.  The family prepares to leave Chicago as they visit their new Northbrook home. It's summer 1955.  They tour their Gregg Road home with amazement
This episode is the opening scene of The Suburbs, the first play in the The Silverfields of Northbrook trilogy.  Michael G. Sievers, the writer, producer & creator of The Silver King's War, introduces the scene as he reflects on the family's su
This episode introduces The Silverfields of Northbrook, a trilogy of plays about the Silver King's family from 1955 to 1960 in the burgeoning suburbs north of Chicago.  The plays: 1)The Suburbs, 2) Wrigley Days and 3) The Sievers, follow Stanle
This episode is Stanley's transition finale from soldier to civilian.  It begins in 1946 and explores his new job as a production engineer for Acme Paper Box Manufacturing in Chicago.  Lee Bernstein, his brother-in-law, owns the company. The Si
This episode concludes Stanley's transition from soldier to civilian. It's December 1945. The Silver King has arrived in Chicago to live with the Bernsteins as he begins his job as a production engineer at the Acme Paperbox Manufacturing Co.  M
This episode continues to follow Stanley's transition from soldier to civilian. It's November 1945.  Stanley's enjoying his Birmingham return as an Air Corps veteran, and preparing for life in Chicago as a production engineer for Acme Paperbox
This special bonus episode is about Phyllis M. Gordon, the family's famous & most-favorite aunt.  She was a Red Cross volunteer who served in Europe during World War II. Born in April 1913, Phyllis graduated from Northwestern University and liv
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