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Monthly Archives: February 2011
A Trip to New Mexico in 1955
Joe was a teacher, so he had the whole summer off from school too when I was a kid. Before he retired in 1960, we would travel around the Western United States for three to four weeks every year. He … Continue reading →
Posted in baseball, Childhood, Dodgers, El Capitan, Joseph Martin Cunningham, L.A. Angels, Los Angeles, New Mexico, Pacific Coast League, Santa Fe Railroad, trains, Travel, Uncategorized, World Series, Yankees
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Word Play
Unabashedly punny and anagrammatic, my father did not withhold this side of his wit in his novel. The new Lilliput is a world filled with scazpops, zingpups, fezerdicks, snickdids, paynetakitors, zangnuts, estibelobs, Nitpooperlers, popweezers, scatchmanmond, moronsnidge, Scakadors, sharis, disthedons, crinkplunks, … Continue reading →
Posted in Government, Joseph Martin Cunningham, Language, There's a New Shuffle in Lilliput, Uncategorized, Word Play
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