Articles by Art Fettig

Early in my career as a professional speaker I talked with a fellow speaker about my career and he said that I’d need some way to set myself apart from other speakers. I don’t remember […]

I’ve been writing since graduating from the eighth grade. I wrote a serious poem for a pretty girl and she laughed. Then in 1946 I was named “Staff Poet” on the Cub News At the […]

This is Friday and I woke up to find on AOL the good news that North and South Korea had signed the Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula. One condition […]

Bread and water would be easy to do without.  My AOL Connection is something else. It has been five days and nights now since I could just click on my little orange AOL  dot and […]

Today is the Anniversary of something. It took me a while to figure it out but 67 years ago today, April 10th, I had the worst breakfast any human being has ever endured. First let […]

I have a book titled “1st Cavalry Division, Korea, June 1950 to January 1952.” When the 1st Cav was pulled out of Korea at the end of 1951 they moved the entire Division to Camp […]

Leonard Hamilton led Florida State University through an interesting battle with Michigan University all the way up to the final eleven seconds, was it? I guess then he started thinking about the $800,000 in bonus […]

With all that’s going on here in America I thought it might be a good time for us all to just go fishin’. I wrote this song when visiting Wyoming speaking for the U.S. Air […]

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?” Satchel Paige a  legend in baseball as a relief pitcher said that and it gets a man a thinking. Satchel’s career went […]