Our visit with Toni Brock was so much fun that we’re continuing the theme of talking to others who knew Grandma and Grandpa as Uncle Donald and Aunt Katherine. Uncle Executive Producer Andrew arranged this visit with Wayne Blanchard, who like T...

So far, we’ve talked to the children of Donald and Katherine and their spouses but today is different. Today we hear from Toni Reilly Brock, and to her, they were Uncle Donald and Aunt Katherine, and clearly, Toni was Grandma’s favorite niece. ...

When we first started recording episodes for the Beautiful Party, I thought it was important that we didn’t let the episodes get too long. Everyone had more to say and I told them not to worry, we could always record more later. Thanks to Andre...

I spent a lot of time with my Uncle Jerry growing up. It always seemed as if we so much closer in age and interests than he was to his oldest brothers so it was easy to see him as a cool Uncle. Of course, all that cool uncle stuff only gets you...

It's been a while, more than two years, since the last episode of The Beautiful Party. Luckily, our Executive Producer, Andrew Still, has kept the flame burning and we both agreed that the time has come to get back to hearing the stories we nee...

We continue our chats with folks who choose to attend this beautiful party by marrying into the Still family and this episode gives us the opportunity to learn more about how Sandi and Andrew came to meet and marry. There are churches and beach...

As should be obvious by now, our family loves a good party. So it's no surprise that some momentous events either happen or get their start at large gatherings of family and friends. Such is the origin story for Mark and Theresa Cook. Decades a...

Now that we've heard from all of the surviving children of Donald and Katherine and told a few extra stories, we turn our attention to the spouses of those children. These are the people who joined the party by choice and who brought the Stills...

Back in February of 2021 when we recorded the first episode with Billy, he had taken the time to make notes, lots of notes, on topics he wanted to talk about. After nearly an hour and 15 minutes of recording, I started trying to wr...

I think I finally figure out something to include for my dad, Ronnie. I sure miss him. 

More than four decades of Billy and his Society of Bums marching in the Joe Cain Day parade. What started so simply became an iconic part of Mardi Gras in Mobile. Here's an interview with Billy...

Andrew was over at Billy's this week so we took the opportunity to get together and try and record the details of how Billy created and played various characters over the years. In part 1, we wanted to talk about Billy as Santa Clause. It took ...

There were some unanswered questions after we recorded the Lansdowne episode that I thought dad's (Ronnie's) good friend Tim Layfield might be able to shed some light on.  Whenever dad was into a project, there was a good chance he would e...

In 1980, construction began on a house for Donald and Katherine in a west Mobile neighborhood called Lansdowne. Their second child, Ronnie, drove the project and many in the family participated in some way during construction and in the mainten...

Andrew is the third child of Donald and Katherine Still and the older of the their twin boys ... and don't you forget it. It's clear that he and Billy are close even if they are constantly digging at each other. With each episode, ...

I had a ball talking with my Uncle Billy about Donald and Katherine and growing up in their family. As I'm now just expecting, he shared some details that I had not heard before and his perspective on some of the common stories was certainly un...

Cecilia was the first daughter born to Donald and Katherine Still. She carries on many traditions from Katherine such as sewing, my-naise, cakes, and more. Cecilia shares a lot about her mom and she also shares some touching memories about the ...

Jerry, as he is most often known, is the 6th child born to Donald and Katherine Still. We talked about paper routes, working at the Clover Farm, and how he artfully dodged his father's direct instructions as a child.I very much enjoyed ...

The first season, or at least the first batch of episodes, of The Beautiful Party will focus on the children of Donald and Katherine Still and for the very first episode, we have their youngest child, Theresa. The seventh of seven children, she...

It's been about a month since I sent the original pilot episode out to Donald and Katherine Still's children to gauge their interest in telling stories about growing up with their parents. Happily, they were all very interested in the idea and ...

I missed my family. Specifically, I miss his brothers and sisters so I made this short pilot episode to explain an idea for a podcast that would tell the story the family their parents made and raised and, eventually, tell the stories of their ...