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Round Town By Ray Young This is my home page.set up in the form of the newspaper that I loved so well. I wrote a "Ramble" column for the ten years I was publisher of The Good Thunder Herald and for the 23 years at Wabasha. It gave me a chance to pat someone on the back, report the little items that do not make the news columns and relate the humorous goings on of the community. _________________ NEW FEATURE: Slideshow of the Month __________ Sally Rand and other Fantastic Historical Bits Andrew and the Suzuki's do the hill country Andrews trip to New Mexico. the Trinity Ride My Grandson Jon Takes a Bride! photo album inside And now here's the word from cousin Esther Koehler Lubrecht, a great gal: "If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes this time. I would climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets. I would go barefoot earlier and stay that way later in fall. I would play hookey more, I would ride on more merry-go-rounds, pick more daisies and burn more gasoline I would eat more ice cream and less beans. If I had it to do over again I would go more places and travel lighter. Quality is like buying oats -- if you want good, clean oats you must pay a fair price. However, if you are satis-fied with oats that have been through a horse, well, they are a little cheaper."
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Hey. looky here, I wrote a book
Local Editor Tops the Best Seller List in Good Thunder, Minn. (passed out at least a forty copies) The book is an autobiography, the story of me growing up, editor and publisher of three Minnesota weekly newspapers -- The Good Thunder Herald, Wabasha County Herald and the Mazeppa Journal with some short stops at The Hennepin County Review and Roseau Times-Region. It includes lots of people who I knew along the way, many of my best friends, some historical data and contributions from my kids and a bunch of pictures.
This is Good Thunder as it appeared back in 1919 or 1920. I remember a barnstormer aviator landed his World War I Jenny along the railroad tracks north of town. Dad and I went out and dad negotiated a ride to take some pictures. He had his big, clunky postcard camera and climbed into the front cockpit. The pilot asked if he wanted to take the kid along and dad said no. Anyway he got the pictures from the west side of town, the side lit up by the afternoon sun and it shows the churches, school house, Main street, the works inhabited by some 400 people at the time.
Editor reminisces a bit In putting together a home page for my
friends on the Internet I couldn't help but go back to my roots and ressurect my first
great love, The Good Thunder Herald. So while I have a few stories to tell and
maybe some old pictures, these pages will also include material gathered in my travels
through life in other times and places. Hey, I'm just getting started on this page -- it's new to me too, and I probably don't know what I am doin' -- but I have this idea and will try to tame it and add to it. Patience, my dears, and will try to give you my best .................ray young + + + + How-come I can remember everything
back-then + + + +
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