Bud Grossmann’s Words of the Week for the Week of July 10, 2011 Previously unpublished family history. © 2011 by Bud Grossmann. All Rights Reserved.   Farm, 2007 © 2007 by Bud Grossmann MEN IN HIGH PLACES Thursday, July 7, 2011       This morning I sent Dad a PDR obituary for an 87-year-old St. John’s woman neither of us knew, but he recognized her parents’ names and figured out that she was a sister of Uncle Reuben’s wife. While in high school, Dad, with his dad, replaced a roof on Reuben’s in-laws’ barn. It was a high barn, Dad said, with a rock pile below. In the course of removing the cupola, by means of hay ropes attached to two tractors, a rope broke. The cupola slid down the roof slope, narrowly missing young Gordon and not-so-very-old Earl. Had it hit them, my father would never have read today’s obit. He is thinking of attending the funeral tomorrow, in the expectation of seeing cousins. ♦         ARCHIVES         Click for a list of other Words of the Week I would welcome your thoughts on this page (or any of my others).  Write to me at the following address.  Please be sure to spell Grossmann with two n’s and mention what page you are writing about. Thanks!  BUD GROSSMANN Top of this page | HOME | Fine Photography | Picture of the Day | Writings | | Words of the Week | Mom & Pop Prop. Mgt. | FAQ |

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