John “Swede” Swenson, doing archival research on Chicago from ancient French documents, shows its center to be a Native American mound the size of a football field, built circa 1100 A.D.
Members of “the touch of class” ’50, I come to you this issue with not much news, and urge all of you to contact me with any news you have that I can relay to the rest of us!
Corrections to last issue: Note that Jack and Jill Harned and family were not able to join us for our exceedingly pleasant and interesting trip and dinner to the Ravine Lodge at Moosilauke and the activities of the H
I will be attempting to be your worthy scribe now that good pals Nev Chamberlain and Alex Hoffman have left us, but I have to warn you that I don’t do much online.
This is a difficult column to write. In March 2017 I was still skiing. Then the valves in my aorta failed almost totally, leaving me with no strength and complete loss of equilibrium.