by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | EARLY YEARS, Uncategorized
The summer after I graduated from Presentation Academy, I packed my bags and climbed onto a Greyhound bus destined for Miami, Florida. Erastus, Aunt Gertie, and Uncle Jess were living there and I was welcomed to spend a week in the southern town which Erastus...
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 | 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...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | RELATIVES, Uncategorized
I had skated alongside my Grandfather Link’s home, made the turn at the backside of the house, and coasted to the doorway of his shop. He was standing inside at his anvil, tapping a metal plate to the bottom heel of my Grandmother’s shoe. The shop...
