Breakfast with Mom

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Breakfast with Mom! There are moments in history when a door opens—and once enough people walk through it, there is no closing it again. During World War II, America was fighting a war on a scale the country had never experienced before. Millions of men were leaving their homes and heading overseas. Factories were operating around the clock. Ships were crossing the Atlantic and Pacific. And the United States military needed people—more people than it...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Breakfast with Mom! Tonight, we tell the story of Helen Brach — candy heiress, socialite, horse enthusiast — and the mystery that still lingers nearly fifty years later. Was it kidnapping? Was it murder? Or was it something even darker? Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Brach https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7576712/helen-marie-brach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brach%27s https://www.brachs.com/about-us https://www....

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Breakfast with Mom! Today’s episode is about warmth — not just the kind that fills a room on a winter night, but the kind that comes from innovation, persistence, and vision. This is the story of Alice H. Parker — the woman whose groundbreaking heating system laid the foundation for the central heating systems we rely on today. Let’s travel back to the early 1900s. Imagine it’s January in the northeastern United States. There’s no thermostat on...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Breakfast with Mom! In 1871, a woman stood accused in a courtroom that did not fully recognize her as a legal equal—or, in many ways, as a full person. The charge against her was serious. But what mattered just as much as the alleged crime was who she was believed to be: a wife, a woman, and—according to the State—someone who had stepped far outside her proper role. This is not just a story about guilt or innocence. It’s a story about how justi...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Breakfast with Mom. Today’s story has a connection to the assasination of Abraham Lincoln. Do you recognize the name Eugenia Surratt or Elisabeth Surratt or Mary Surratt? Anna: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9723985/eugenia_susanna-tonry https://civilwartalk.com/threads/anna-surratt-%E2%80%9Ca-daughter-is-a-daughter-for-all-her-life%E2%80%9D.170818/ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jenkins-2705 https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2011/09...