I watched the movie Jumbo about a circus elephant and my wife Jean asked me "Art, did you see a circus very often when you were a kid?" And BOOM!!! It all came rushing back to my memory. I had a booking for the Michigan School Administrators or Principals, someone, and it was at the Amway Grand in Grand Rapids and we couldn't leave the hotel. Suddenly we were snowed in. I'd … [Read more...] about Circus by Art Fettig
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The Quilt by Art Fettig
Amy, my daughter in San Diego, a very busy bi-lingual BSN Senior Case Manager and a Blue Ribbon Award winning quilter extraordinaire, has created a wonderful quilt for me to wrap up in when I doze in my Lazy Boy rocker. She named it "Growth Unlimited" . What a memorable gift! What a blessing! What a labor of love. On a panel on the quilt she tells how I … [Read more...] about The Quilt by Art Fettig
Art Fettig: Operation Feint
It was mid October 1952 and I was an officer's records clerk in the 99th Field Artillery, a private first class on a Landing Ship Troops (LST) headed towards North Korea. I didn't even suspect that we were taking part in a big U.N.task force of warships, planes, landing craft and troops making a feint attack in North Korea far behind the enemy lines. I didn't learn this much … [Read more...] about Art Fettig: Operation Feint
The World At Our Fingertips – Art Fettig
Art Fettig's Monday Morning Memo November 30, 2009 In This Issue The World At Our Fingertips Say Something Good Visit Our Website Points To Ponder A Little Humor Quote of the Week To Subscribe The World At Our Fingertips The other day I heard from a friend in Australia who reads this newsletter. It brought home to me the fact that with the … [Read more...] about The World At Our Fingertips – Art Fettig
Art Fettig, “Pass it on!”
A dynamic speaker named Bill Sanders invited me to join him one day when he was visiting Jackson prison. That would be around 1980. We went into the maximum security section and visited with prisoners serving life sentences and then we would each gave a little speech and talked with prisoners privately. I asked one prisoner why he was in prison and he told me he had … [Read more...] about Art Fettig, “Pass it on!”