Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I like the way my Uncle Steve looked at my Aunt Doris as they renewed the weddings vows. I imagine he looked at her just that way on their wedding day 60 years ago. That look of love and gratitude tells a sweet story for a young couple full of excitement, pride and hope. It [...]
It isn't that Stan Brown was cavalier about his courtship with Barbara Frankel , it's just that she beat him to the punch. Just one month after the two started dating, Barbara announced that they were engaged. That was news to Stan, who was stretching out on the living room floor of Barbara's house when [...]
Mike Grabner knew all about courting when he popped into the Rail Bar with his buddies on a random August night in 1960. A star player on the Oshkosh High School basketball team, Grabner played college ball at UWO. The soft-spoken gentleman tried his hand at a different kind of courting when he spotted Rosie [...]
(I'm celebrating Valentine's Day week by featuring some really amazing couples. I hope you enjoy meeting them as much as I enjoy telling their stories. I'm kicking the week off with two of the best people I know...) Uncle Herbie celebrated all week when Roy Fischer married Mary Ellen Gunderson on Feb. 27, 1965. He [...]