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24 Mar

Blizzards!

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My earliest memory of a blizzard was when I was in the second grade. The blizzard was over, school had been reopened but the road going by our farm was blocked in by high snow drifts. The farm family across the road from us had an answer to the unplowed roads. They still had a couple of horses in the barn that had retired because the modern tractor had taken their place working the fields. The neighbors had a wooden…..

11 May

Memories From the Past

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The hometown paper came today and after lunch I plopped down in my recliner and started to page through the paper. Every week the paper has a section titled “Can You Recall” and it consists of a picture that had been featured in a past issue. This week’s picture looked especially familiar. It was dated May, l956 and consisted of the Elim Lutheran Sunday School classes and their teachers. What a somber looking group they were. Thirty-eight students and teachers…..

24 Mar

Tournament Fever

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I first experienced ‘ tournament fever’ when I was in the sixth grade attending the Clinton Elementary School. Even then I was a proud Clinton Rocket. And that was well before Russia and the U.S.A. were in a race to be the first to escape the bonds of earth and begin our venture into outer space. Rockets were of course important in achieving such an endeavor. Rockets as a high school mascot was a way of keeping up with the…..

25 Jul

Thou Shalt Not Steal!

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I had forgotten about this incident that happened fifty-five years ago but a post on Facebook brought the memories rushing back. My criminal past that had long been buried in the recesses of my brain have returned! For the past few days since I watched that post guilt and shame have weighed heavily on my mind. You see the post was a YouTube video from the early 1960’s and featured the men’s chorus of the newly established University of Minnesota,…..

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