Articles by Art Fettig

Hot has been the topic of conversation these recent days and my memory went back to 1951 when I was a G.I. at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas. We were training to shoot enemy aircraft […]

Oh the stuff I find around our house when I am looking for something else. Did you ever do that.? The same is true with my computer. I spent a couple of hours the other […]

Of 1776, what was the spirit? Revolution? Freedom? Independence? No, I think the prevailing spirit Was selling Selling one another. Selling like selling Had never been done before. Or since. Salespeople saying, “But as for […]

What I bought: A precious little porcelain doll dressed in a pretty dress and seated in an aged wooden snow sled, a tiny classic car set, a little stuffed pillow saying “You’re A Very Special Neighbor” […]

Just the other day I asked myself, “What do you want to be when you grow up, Art?”  Here I am almost 90 and I still don’t have a good answer to that question. I […]

What with Memorial Day and D Day recently, my thoughts drifted back to a man named Glen Miller. He had a band in the late 1930;s and early 40’s that was #1 in the nation. […]

When someone asked Thomas Edison where he got all of his ideas from he replied something like “They are all around us in the ether of the air and all we have to do is […]

Back when we used pay phones every now and then when we stepped into a phone booth we discovered that there was a sign hung over the phone that read “Out of Order”, well,we got […]