The Tale of the Ski-doo was written and illustrated by Dad's brother, Alvin Elstad, when he was in the hospital recovering from horrible skin wounds gotten when he fell down the cellar steps carrying a large pail of scalding water for Thelma to wash clothes with. I don't know how many original copies he made.
Reminds me - Greg Loftness has been doing a great deal of ancestry stuff and we have had a lot of communication - he's my second cousin once removed, I believe (and a single father raising 3 kids, we just learned this week). He asked for Elvina's books and I sent them along with your commencement speech, Dan, and our play for the 1972 Loftness reunion. They are now in Ancestry.com. Preserved. Maybe the Woebegon Idiot will appear there someday too. Or in some like archive.
My repeated question to all of you is, if our Declaration of Independence and Article of the Constitution with the Bill of Rights is based on Scripture, where is that written in the Bible that we should have any "rights"? I think it's all the 18th-century philosopher named --- upon whom much of educational systems is based. I do not have dementia, yet, but that name sure escapes me. Mills?
Love, Mom
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