by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | EARLY WORKING YEARS, Uncategorized
It wasn’t until later years that I realized how much the small salary I brought home every two weeks as a teenager was needed to pay family bills. Following high school classes at Presentation Academy’s Fourth and Breckenridge building, I would...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | EARLY WORKING YEARS, Uncategorized
The summer after I graduated from the Eighth Grade at Holy Family School, I worked selling tickets for the Louisville, Kentucky’s Iroquois Amphitheater’s summer musical productions. The ticket office was located on Broadway in the Baldwin Piano Company near Third...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | RELATIVES, Uncategorized
Whenever I hear the melody of ‘My Favorite Things”, it is my mother I see and one small package wrapped in brown paper I recall. During the Korean War, I happened upon a scene that has remained with me for decades and I repay it in my mind every...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
Camp Tekakwitha was a Girl’s Summer Camp located in Carrolton, Kentucky and I had my heart set on attending the site when I was in the third grade. I also had made up my mind to earn the funds to attend the camp session myself. My family had been in...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | RELATIVES, Uncategorized
“But, Louisa! We didn’t know she would swallow the Penney!” No amount of apologetic stuttering could dissuade my mother from heaping blame on her contrite cousins. After Sunday family dinners on Crittenden Drive, the men were accustomed to...
