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Aunt Maggie passed this week. She and her husband Bill Heisick both grew up in Bozeman, Montana. Bill served in the Pacific during World War II. When he came home he and his mother traveled to LA to visit some friends. One day a fellow named Ivan popped in to see his friend Tommy who happened to be playing bridge with Bill and his mother Mary. Ivan asked who owned the car outside with the Montana license plates. Uncle Bill spoke up. Ivan told Bill that his girlfriend, Maggie Caven, lived in Bozeman and Bill should greet her for him.

When Bill got back to Bozeman he phoned Maggie and asked her to go to a movie. Maggie mistook Bill for his brother Bob who was a couple of years older than she was and had attended the same high school. She accepted the date and she was very disappointed when she found out that Bob had been killed in the war and she was quite sure that Bill, who was a couple of years younger than she, was not her kind of fellow. Bill was very handsome and Maggie was sure that like most handsome men, he would prove to be full of himself. She tried to call it off, but Bill was persistent and they were married in Tucson, Arizona in April 12, 1949. They were a very happy couple. They lived in Van Nuys, CA and retired to a small ranch outside of Bozeman in 1984. Bill died in 2008. I am not sure what happened to Ivan, but he shared too much with the wrong fellow at the wrong time.

This week the APHC show is a rebroadcast of the October 15 season opener from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Jack White sings “Carolina Drama” and welcomes Margo Price for “I’m Lonely But I Ain’t That Lonely Yet,” Lake Street Dive performs “Mistakes” and Prince’s “When You Were Mine,” and comedian Maeve Higgins shares a few thoughts on city life, dating, and parents. Plus: Chris Thile debuts “Get it Out on the Radio” and celebrates a few musician birthdays with the band (Sarah Jarosz, Rich Dworsky, Chris Eldridge, Brittany Haas, Paul Kowert, and Ted Poor). The Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Serena Brook, Tim Russell, and Fred Newman, perform the “Meditation App” script and a review of this year’s shaving creams from Bertrand Falstaff Heine. Tune in at 5pm Saturday CST.
“Grab a chance and you won’t be sorry for a might have been.” Arthur Ransome