by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | RELATIVES, Uncategorized
Aunt Sis was named after her mother, Rosina Kernen. She grew up with her three brothers in the Kernen Tavern when it was located on Louisville, Kentucky’s Preston Street near Clarks Lane In later years she painted China to give as treasured gifts to family...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | RELATIVES, Uncategorized
I drove our brother, Paul to the Hospital Emergency Room at the Hospital in Jeffersonville, Indiana the last day he was with us on earth. He sat beside me in the front seat. I recall glancing over at him and our eyes met. We were both concerned about the...
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...
