It started at 137 DeKoven Street. That’s where the O”Leary’s barn was in 1871. A cow kicked over a lantern (or some guys gambling knocked it over) and what instruments we have agree tell us that half the city of Chicago burnt down.
Don’t get me wrong.
I have nothing against fame and fortune. But only after I’ve raked the yard and swept out the garage. I don’t have any regular reading that I do these days. I used to. Now it’s mostly meetings and radio shows, lunches and weekend trips. I love the life of radio way more than I hate it, so we roll on. We roll on.
The holidays are particularly demanding for the man in charge of local radio. Pick a day. How about Thursday? Scattered thoughts on a grain silo,
cold wheat unfiltered milk. A farmer gets up real early and coughs on the way to the barn. He feeds the horses then smokes a cigarette. It won’t be light for hours. |
I run radio stations and a streaming video network in Hammond, Ind., and write this blog.
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