Garrison Keillor,
I'm going away for a while ( Garrison Keillor )
Bertha's Kitty Boutique Chatterbox Cafe Ingqvist, Yalmer Lake Wobegon Leonards Pork Brand Shoes Powdermilk Biscuits Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery
LW is a lovely town when the evenings get cool. People like to lie in a bed in the cool fall months. Two people need each other to keep warm and beds have a trough to roll them together. Every marriage has a light sleeper and a heavy sleeper. The light sleeper wakes takes care of the problems, like getting extra blankets. Arlene Bunsen woke up and looked for a quilt until she was wide awake. She wrote to her daughter, Barbara Ann, about the garden. Arlene fell asleep and woke up next to Clarence. The LW Herald Star has run ab & w photo of the fall leaves for 30 years. GK's parents would drive out to see the fall leaves with 4 or 5 children in the back seat and the 'good child' in the front seat. They would goose the good child. The LW Leonards are doing poorly. Wayne, the QB, looked up in the bleachers and saw a pretty girl. He threw beautiful passes but they were 20 yards too long. He tried a run into the line and crocked his leg. Carl Krepsbach was a bit late getting around to painting the Inkvuist's house. Carl got it scraped and then it rained so the house looked terrible. His brother-in-law, Lyle, and his oldest boy, Greg, are helping. Everybody in L W watched the painting. The 2-1/2 story house was built in the 1890s by the Dempster family. A long series of disasters overtook them. Their oldest boy hung himself from the attic rafter. As a boy, Yalmer Inkvist charged a nickel to give the kids a tour of the house. The house used to be white but it wound up dark green. This year, they painted the trim of the house gray. It was pretty dramatic for LW. It took three days to finish. There is something romantic about painting a house. The painters bicker with each other. Virginia Inkvuist is playing a waltz on the piano. The men are painting three strokes at a time.
Atlanta Constitution Oct 24 1985
1985.10.24 Atlanta Constitution
Archival contributors: Frank Berto