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A · ~ fiRAC~~~~E~ELSON 0 ~~ ~~ VOYAGEUR PRESS Copyright © by Grace Dorothy Keith Samuelson. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or used in any form by any means-graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or information storage and retrieval system-without the written permission of the publisher. Published by Voyageur Press Incorporated 212 N. 2nd Street Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401 ISBN-0-89658-062-8 Printed in the United States of America. Table of Contents Editor's Preface V REFLECTIONS My Immigrant Heritage 3 Great-Grandmother Was A Scientist 12 She Left Me A Legacy 14 "My Father Says .. :• 17 Father OfT he Groom 20 Dog And Pony Show 23 Black Cats and Sidewalk Cracks 30 Birdie's Revenge 33 The Creek In Springtime 35 Collectibles 37 What's Wrong With Flag Waving? 41 No Party Line 44 Christmas 1931 48 Don't Let Your Guard Down 51 A New Grave 55 GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE HELP A Lonesome Fireplace Looking For A Home 59 A Motto. The Help. 61 Home Cooking? Heaven Forbid! 66 Quirks and Quibbles 71 "To Everything There Is A Season" 77 Who's In The Night? 84 A Cook On T.V. 87 Rajah 91 Real Life Intrudes 93 The Customer Is Always Right 98 The Customer Is Always Right P.S -Revenge Is Sweet 103 Last Move 105 A YEAR FROM THE PAST January 109 February 115 March 123 April 128 May 135 June 142 July 148 August 154 September 160 October 166 November 172 December 180 Editor's Preface Grace Samuelson has been writing and publishing for a long time, and there should have been a book of hers available long since. For a num ber of reasons, this is the first time that some of her work has been selected, arranged, and prepared for publication in one volume. The prose pieces here included can speak for themselves. The first sec tion "Reflections" is composed of miscellaneous pieces ranging from fa mily history to description and anecdote. "Good Enough for the Help" contains eleven essays that describe the existence of the well-known and lamented "Samuelson's," a restaurant that lives on in the memories of many happy and well-fed Midwesterners, as well as the television work that oc curred because of the restaurant and Grace Samuelson's way with food. The third section, "A Year from the Past," needs some explanation. For a number of years the Door County Advocate, the twice-weekly news paper published in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, has printed a monthly fea ture in which Grace reminisces about that month in years and times gone by. The series has become one of the most popular on-going parts of the newspaper, and no selection from her work would be complete without a chronicle of the months. The twelve months included in this volume have been selected from a number of possibilities; thus, the year presented is "constructed" and is not a previously published sequence. Fiction and poetry have been excluded from this selection for the pur pose of unity, but she has worked, and continues to work, in these forms also. Her vitality and love and reverence for life show in all her work. That she is tough-minded and able to court sentiment while seldom becoming sentimental are bonuses. I hope you enjoy her work. Harold M. Grutzmacher v
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