Roy Blount Jr, Butch Thompson Trio, Margaret MacArthur, Kate MacKenzie, Bill Staines. Stoney Lonesome,
Song of the wanderer (Butch Thompson Trio ) Echoes of spring (Butch Thompson Trio ) Sweet Wyoming home ( Bill Staines ) Faith of man ( Bill Staines ) A bug on the windshield of life ( Roy Blount Jr ) My sweet memory ( Kate MacKenzie ) Before the sun goes down ( Kate MacKenzie ) Bound to Ride ( Kate MacKenzie ) Fifty years ago ( Margaret MacArthur ) Oh Mary ( Margaret MacArthur ) Mary Shimansky ( Margaret MacArthur ) Darlin Cory (Stoney Lonesome )
Ajua! Hot Sauce Bertha's Kitty Boutique Bunsen Motors Butch Thompson Music Corporation Jack's Scraps for Dogs Krebsbach, Carl Porcelain Pig Products Powdermilk Biscuits Sidetrack Tap Skoglund's Five and Dime Tolerude, Marlis
The ceiling of Bunsen Motors almost collapsed after Carl Krepsbach removed the ceiling wallpaper. It snowed a bit and people wore their woolen underwear. It is itchy and it scratches. You would never fall asleep in the freezing cold if you wore woolen underwear. You couldn't scratch when you were in church. Older guys had learned how scratch by reaching in their pockets. Decorous people were on the OK's mother's side. On the father's side, country people loudly cleared their throats. Uncle Art cleared his throat and blew his nose at the table. His aunts would go to the bathroom to blow their noses. The Norwegian bachelor farmers sit on the bench in front of the grocery and let fly with wads of snoose. They considered themselves the aristocracy of town. GK visited NBF Mr. Hougie's shack to buy a dog. Marl is Tolerude married a man who could belch, yodel, do cartwheels and light big flames out of his rear end. They moved to Florida a few years ago and no one missed them. Aunt Bea was very polite and she noticed things that hurt children. She was like a child and would notice little hurts. She would compliment him. Her terrible secret that she smoked a Camel to blow the smoke at her African violets.
Roy Blount reads from his book about isms and oysters.
1982.11.06 Berkshire Eagle / 0982.11.05 SF Examiner / 1982.11.05 Waterloo Courier / Audio of the News available on CD. Rebroadcast 2/25/84
Archival contributors: Frank Berto, John Hall