Above a Chinese Restaurant 1972 Our first apartment on the outskirts of Champaign, Illinois was a cockroach ridden, dirty hovel. We tried...

Big Shot 1971-72 My style continued to be refined in my last years at Northern State College and I developed some interesting techniques...

The Sarcastic Expressionist 1969-70 In my sophomore and junior years and I began producing large quantities of work. Looking back I think...

Not So Good 1968-69 Being a full-time student and a full-time shoe salesman left me little time to socialize. The extravagant drinking...

The Shoe Salesman 1968 In returning to Aberdeen from the resort my new responsibilities made it evident that my grocery store job was not...

Senior Year 1967-68 The year started out much like my junior year. I was having fun with my Herd friends, hunting, partying, pestering...

Drive-in Movies 1967 It seemed to me there was not a great deal for teenagers to do in Aberdeen. But unfortunately at this time the flood...

Taking Mains 1966 The primary pastime of weekday nights was “Taking Mains.” Main Street was really the main street in Aberdeen. It was...

The Herd 1966 Central High School was Aberdeen’s only public high school. The school was a series of four connected buildings that...

Four Brothers 1965 In the mid-sixties my father sold the house on west hill and bought a three story house in the center of town. Both my...

Summer Resort “Fun” 1965 For some years most of my summer was spent working for my older brother in northern Minnesota. He was restoring...

The Gambler 1964 An older brother of one of our Junior High group worked his way into our “gang.” It was not hard for him as we were...

Sidewalk Surfing 1964 The only thing I remember about Junior High education is few mispronounced German words. What was going well were...

Romantic Walks 1963 In addition to dances, another part of Junior High romance was taking walks. It almost seems 19th Century now. The...

Slow Dancing at the Y 1963 Once again the YMCA holds a fading memory. The Y building was one of the old buildings in the downtown area,...

The Art Teacher and the History Professor 1963 Junior High was a big change for me. The school was located in the southwest of Aberdeen...

Camp Wisagoma 1962 A ritual of Summer was the YMCA’s Camp Wisagoma at Pickerel Lake. The first step in getting to the camp was the...

Summer Swimming Tan 1962 The municipal swimming pool was to Summer what the ice skating pond was to Winter only with less pain. It was...

Gophers in the Graveyard 1962 By the time I reached my pre- teens I had graduated from the stick and string bows with weed arrows to a...

A & W 1960 Drive-in restaurants were numerous in Aberdeen. They were mostly local but also a few chains. Just across the road to West of...