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Nuggets

Al Hirt

In the late nineties I visited New Orleans and heard the late Al Hirt in one of his final appearances in a small club on Bourbon Street. When he finished playing I had the chance […]

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Getting There

Oh so many years ago I was a banquet speaker for an educational association at the then Pantland Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Later it was called The Amway Grand. I drove there OK and […]

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Supposing

Back in 1926 when Charles A. Lindbergh flew U.S. mail runs between St. Louis and Chicago, he often became bored on calm days when the weather was no challenge. To kill time and to keep […]

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Poems

Impartiality

“Impartiality.” by Art Fettig – copyright (c) 1987 Art Fettig  –  (from Art;’s PDF Download, “The Best Verse of Art Fettig and Friends) That’s my son out there The one with the hair. Did you see […]

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On Writing

I had the honor of speaking for a group of writers the other day and I did some thinking about the written word and its possibilities. Once I took a few words and sent them […]