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[This space is snow.<\/small><\/em>]<\/p>\n I grew up in Holy Cross, Alaska. The Jesuits had a mission there, and they sent me to Glenallen, Alaska, for high school — 460 miles away. I was out there nine months a year.<\/p>\n Harold Richards, 2016<\/p><\/div>\n I joined the Navy at 17, went to Nam, and launched jets from aircraft carriers for three years. I liked the Navy; I had grown up on two things: moose and salmon. The Navy’s macaroni and cheese was something different.<\/p>\n My dad<\/strong> <\/span>was a beaver trapper. There were 12 of us in one room. I\u2019m not telling you this to impress you, I\u2019m telling you because you seem interested (seeing as you’ve read this far).<\/p>\n I worked the pipeline as a surveyor and was really good at 40-degrees-below zero. I\u2019m retired now and live in Anchorage. I miss some of the \u201cattaboys\u201d — compliments — from management and fellow tradesmen. My team could put up 100 vertical posts in a day and do it right.<\/p>\n I go fishing every morning during the season, particularly when the kings are running. I have plenty salmon and halibut in my freezer.\u00a0 You need any?<\/p>\n And I should mention my favorite klezmer band is Yiddishe Cup.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Yiddishe Cup plays for Purim 7:30 Sat. (March 11) at Park Synagogue, Pepper Pike, Ohio.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first time I ate Wonder Bread I was 14. I didn\u2019t see TV until I was 14. I didn\u2019t drink pop until I was 14. My mother had a bottle of 7-Up in our freezer, which was not a freezer, just a hole — a slat — below the floor in our “living room.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24887"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24981,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24887\/revisions\/24981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Harold](\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/harold-in-yckb-shirt-2016-1-116x300.jpg\")