June 17, 2011
June 17th, 2011 by admin
Good morning from Collegeville,
Barby and I drove to Sioux Falls on Sunday. One of her classmates lives there and they love to shop while I meet with underwriters and try to find new ones. I got a good reception from a number of new contacts. We always stay at the Holiday Inn in downtown Sioux Falls. Tom Bosch is the “inn keeper” and he is always a joy to work with. Every year the downtown area is filled with wonderful sculptures. “Sculpturewalk Sioux Falls” is worth the trip alone. There is a People’s Choice Award Ballot with 49 sculptures on the ballot. My vote is going to go for the one on the corner of 9th and Phillips Avenue, ‘Joy of The Dance’ by D.E. McDermott. You can check it out at www.sculpturewalksiouxfalls.com
Tomorrow I am heading west to visit Aunt Maggie. She turned 90 in May and she still lives with ‘Blue”, a cat that she adopted, on her ‘ranch’ on the ‘bad corner’ which has a pond and an artesian well. She manages to pick up a 40 lb bag of crushed corn from the feed store in Bozeman every other week which she feeds to a herd of deer that pass through her back yard. There is still lots of snow in the mountains out west, so I hope that I don’t have any trouble getting there.
Maggie is unique and the stories are wonderful. She once was “Queen For A Day” and had a career as a model in LA.
The show this week is a live broadcast from highly-esteemed Center for The Arts n Northwest Lower Michigan. Special guests include Montana Folk Duo Storyhill, Chris Cunningham and John Hermanson. Smoky Mountain legends Robin and Linda Williams and student musicians, violinist Yuri Popowycz and harpist Charles Overton will join Garrison along with the usual characters. Enjoy the show.
There will not be a note next week.
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into” Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
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