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Good morning from Collegeville,

This week my oldest granddaughter will be moving into her very first apartment. She will be setting up household starting from scratch, just like her forefathers and foremothers. In the sixties the trend with the Upsala kids was to rent a house and get a bunch of roommates. She will be by herself. It is a nice apartment just a stone’s throw from a Coborns grocery. Very convenient.

I roomed with a buddy, Arnie, in Minneapolis, in a home owned by a classmate of his, Virgil. Virgil had a very nice console TV/Stereo and whenever he went home to Upsala, he would but a chain and padlock on it. We did not get along. Once we had a wrestling match in the Upsala liquor store. I lost that one too. The summer of 1965 I rented a room in an old mansion on Lake Calhoun Boulevard owned by a widow, for $10 per week. That was a nice place. I put the Chevy on blocks and walked every day and took a bus to work in NE Minneapolis at the Honeywell Stinson Plant. I think there is a song about the summer of ’65. I lost fifty pounds.

The APHC show this week is another rebroadcast, originally broadcast from the Cuthbert Amphitheatre in Eugene, Oregon in June of 2012. Special guests include Elvin Bishop singing “That’s My Thing”, Sam Bush performing “Freight Train Boogie” and the Portland Cello project plays “Take Five”. In the News From Lake Wobegon Luanne Peterson copes with the arrival of a new patient in the pediatric intensive care unit.

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau