FOG BLOG MARITIME CHRISTMAS STORIES, WE END UP IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND WITH A VINTAGE MEMORY:

Christmas memories from P.E.I.'s Sleepytown Express 'How special it must have been for people to have Santa come into their home'........The sound crackles and buzzes, but come Christmastime Islander Kathy Large still listens to archived recordings of her mother interviewing Santa Claus.

Betty Rogers Large was the longtime host and producer of The Sleepytown Express, a much-beloved P.E.I. radio show that aired on P.E.I. radio station CFCY from the early 1930s to 1960s.

"In those early days of radio, it was true magic that that sort of thing got on the air," Large said. "It literally came out of thin air and people were just amazed by the new technology."

In an interview with CBC Radio: Mainstreet, Large — an award-winning broadcaster herself — said her mother, who became known as The Storyteller, introduced her young listeners to many characters of her own imagination including the Bubble Fairy and Mickey the Elf.

Recording bed-time stories

The Sleepytown Express started out as a very simple show, said Large.

The Sleepytown Express was a P.E.I. radio show that captured the imagination of thousands of Island children, and was hosted and produced by the late Betty Rogers Large.