A Year of Memories, Life lessons
I remember well a fateful day of pheasant hunting. Afterwards, I sheathed my Fulton double-barreled 20-gauge shotgun, and it hasn’t seen daylight for fifty-five years. I hunted a bit during high school—squirrels now and then, but mostly pheasants. Sometimes, I’d drive...
A Year of Memories, Monday Memories
I suppose that most of you are too young to know about Dogpatch. Dogpatch was a fictional community dreamed up by comic strip illustrator and writer Al Capp. He described Dogpatch “as being the most miserable and unnecessary place on earth.” He said it was located...
A Year of Memories, Monday Memories
Pat O’Dea, “Wisconsin’s Kangaroo,” played at a time when the kicker was considered the most important player on a football team. O’Dea is thought by many to be the greatest kicker of all time. Pat played for the University of Wisconsin from 1896 to 1899, at a time...
A Year of Memories, Monday Memories
Johnny Mercer, Academy Award-winning writer of more than 1,500 songs—including “Days of Wine and Roses” and “Moon River”—estimated that Emma Kelly knew 6,000 songs from memory. Although Emma Kelly achieved local prominence before appearing in the book and movie,...
