A Flash from the Past – A Flippity Do Dah, A Flippity Day

Change of pace. In 1971 I wrote a story in the style of Mark Twain while traveling from Detroit to Zihuatanejo, Mexico. A birthday gift for Oscar.

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Credits
Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Boston Drummer, Composer, Arranger

Web/social media coach, Kayla Nelson

Photo by christian buehner on Unsplash
Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra - Wayfaring Stranger | Live at John Dee
The Cookies/Earl Jean I'm into something good

Bessie Banks and the Red Bird Girls Go Now
Just One Look Doris Troy
Glen Campbell and Willie Nelson On the Road Again

k.d. lang & the Take 6 Ridin' the Rails

Stevie Wonder Happy Birthday Short Version
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Thanks to these fine people who inspired me for this episode: Jennifer Keeney, Allison Cofone, Rebecca Archer, Sue Spivack, Curtis Cates, Luc Pelletier, Oscar van Leeuwen, Ame Sanders, Fred Gutierrez, Dafna Gold Melchior, Amanda Blodgett

Links
You've Come a Long Way, Buddy Life Magazine 8/27/1971 (Mediocre scan). I'm on p8-9

Mark Twain Himself
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Proem
I wrote a story driving down from Detroit to Zihuatanejo, Mexico, in December 1971 with my dear friends, the Keeney family, Jerry, Peggy, Jenny, Becky, and Allie. I had wanted to drop out of college, but Jerry suggested I ask to do an independent study for the semester. My advisors agreed. My study: full Mark Twain immersion with the deliverable - two stories written in the style of Mark Twain.  I read my first story to the tribe in Zihuatanejo on Christmas 1971.  I was 19. I thought I had lost the story, but I found the manuscript a month ago tucked inside a book about Mark Twain, called Mark Twain Himself.  I wanted to give the book to my grandson, Oscar. Oscar and I read to each other for an hour each week. We read Tom Sawyer and now we’re reading Huckleberry Finn. We started this pleasant ritual about a year ago when he was concerned about my Pokeman illiteracy. He’s becoming more literate about Mississippi life in the 1870s than I became about Pokeman. Anyway, my brain needs a respite from COVID-19, health choices, politics, life. So, rather than an interview or a rant,