Ivy Austin, Bulgarian Chorus, Alice Clayton, Sam Hinton, Garrison Keillor.
He takes me to paradise ( Ivy Austin ) I wanna be loved by you ( Ivy Austin ) It's a long way from amphioxus ( Sam Hinton ) Arkansas traveler ( Sam Hinton ) Papa is not your father ( Sam Hinton ) Sodium chloride ( Alice Clayton ) A stranger in paradise ( Alice Clayton ) Do re mi ( Garrison Keillor ) Whoopee ti yi yo ( Garrison Keillor ) Powdermilk ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin ) Driving around ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin ) Daddy took the keep away ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin ) Fall bursts into leaves (Bulgarian Chorus ) Horo dance (Bulgarian Chorus )
Cafe Boeuf Chatterbox Cafe Fisher's Coffee Guy's Shoes Powdermilk Biscuits
Pipes burst at high school. Kids have five days off and grump around the house. Norwegian bachelor farmers are teenagers who have turned 70. Parents all eat out at the Chatterbox to get away from the kids. English teacher Miss Wright eats there every night. Ralph still remembers the poem that she made him memorize. She went to St. Cloud State in 1938 and fell in love with Jim. They parted when he got a job in Granite City and she wanted to teach. She has taught English at LWHS for 49 years and she will retire this year to avoid a maudlin ceremony on her 50th anniversary. She taught that Shakespeare's language had passion and muscles to thousand of Norwegian Lutheran and German Catholic students. Just fourteen were really good. Jim married Gladys. Jim and Miss Wright continued to write to each other. Jim retired at 60 and moved to San Diego where Gladys died. Jim recently had a slight stroke. His daughter wrote to Miss Wright. She is flying out to visit him at Easter vacation and will marry him if it is right.
Jesus did not say "Blessed are they who look out for #1." Story of San Diego, a navy town with 36 shopping malls and only 28 bowling lanes. Boring sailboat owners and pool sharks. Interview with Murray, the sea lion. We are going through a period of second rate presidents. LRT: "Marvin the Millionaire." Marvin is left behind at a roadside diner. Earns enough money to take the bus to California. He meets Sandra, and lives like a hedonist. She gives him a million dollars and he goes back to New York.
Escondido Times Advocate Feb 15 1991
Archival contributors: Frank Berto