Went to the Different Pointe of View restaurant with my dad, his friend, and my husband. It was a beautiful evening!
Galleries
Trip to Aberdeen, South Dakota to teach
Returned to Aberdeen to teach another workshop to the interpreters of South Dakota, this time on fostering independence.
This building shows the yellow brick that inspired local writer L. Frank Baum to create the yellow brick road in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
My photos on Cabela’s T-shirts
You can read the whole story about how photos I took at Cabela’s were commissioned for T-shirts on the blog post I wrote at the time.
Grandma’s clippings re: singing with comedian Gene Sheldon
On Stage – A super-chaged concoction of song, dance, & laughter – The international mirth provoker Gene Sheldon with Linda Preston
Sweet and Demure – Linda Preston – Miss Preston is an assistant to Comedian Gene Sheldon, topliner in the Hippodrome state program, which is being held over for a second week.
Gene Sheldon with Linda Preston in Panto-Mirth – Ben Marden’s Riviera
My maternal grandmother, née Linda Preston, traveled as a singer with comedian Gene Sheldon in 1941. Unfortunately, it seems her tour with him was cut short when her brother, my Uncle Peter, took a curve too fast while driving her and ran the car into a tree. I remember Grandma told me her leg was broken, and got infected. She told me she begged the doctors in the hospital to save her leg rather than amputate it, and they gave her Sulfa drugs — brand new at the time — to kill the infection. They worked, mostly, but she was prone to getting infections in that leg in her old age.
