January 30, 2009
February 2nd, 2009 by admin
Good morning from Collegeville,
I celebrated my tenth birthday on a ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean. My mother along with her four children were returning from a stint as US Army dependents 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 1954 Chevy from Uncle Duke who owned Hagstrom Chevrolet in Upsala and my brother Bill and I rode with him 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 still can remember the pain when they were putting me on the X-Ray table at the hospital in Cokato. The cast was 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. Uncle Elmer and his wife Ethyl owned the Dokken Funeral Home in Cokato. I had to spend the night on a cot on the main floor of the funeral home. The next day they hauled me to Upsala in a black Studebaker hearse. That explains a lot, huh!
The show this week is live from The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul. Special guests include members of the legendary country western swing band “Asleep At The Wheel”, Ray Benson and Eddie Rivers and the vocal quartet of Maria Jette, Christina Baldwin, Dan Dressen and Bradley Greenwald. Singer Andra Suchy and the Royal Academy of Radio Actors will round out the talent. Enjoy the show.
“Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out”. Chekhov
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