January 3, 2014
Good morning from Collegeville,
I celebrated my tenth birthday on a ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean. My mother and her four children were returning from a stint as a US Army Dependent Family stationed in Vienna, Austria. My Dad was held over in Vienna and when he arrived in Upsala a few weeks later, Ma was in New Ulm visiting her cousin Helen. Dad borrowed a brand new 54 Chevy from Uncle Duke who owned Hagstrom Chevrolet in Upsala. My brother Bill and I rode along with Dad to New Ulm.
I was napping in the back seat and I woke up when our car was broadsided by a dump truck. I had a broken leg. I can still remember the pain when they lifted me on to the X-Ray table at the hospital in Cokato. The cast that they put on went from my toes to my crotch. I was in the hospital for a few weeks and when it came time to transport me back to Upsala, Dad took me to Uncle Elmer’s house which was the Dokken Funeral Home in Cokato. I had to spend a night on a cot on the main floor in the living room next to the viewing room. The next day they took me to Upsala in a black Studebaker hearse. That explains a lot, huh!
The APHC show this week is a live broadcast from the San Diego Civic Theater. Special guests include the folk trio The Wailin’ Jennys and singer-songwriter Sara Watkins. Plus the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott and Fred Newman. The News From Lake Wobegon will highlight the variety of winter sports.
“Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out” Chekhov
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