And I am SLAM crazy about Jerry Bledsoe........everybody should read EVERY WORD he writes and all his books!
And your article is stunning.......you are just so good I know you are going places!
You're way too young to remember Bledoe's columns in the News & Record, but my all time favorite line was something about going to the bank on your lunch break and why in the world do they send THEIR cashiers to lunch when they know that we are all going there during OUR lunches.......and he finished by saying the very least thing they could do was provide a luncheon buffet in the lobby!
I'm young, but not that young (sulking with angst) :-) I was one of the "Bring Back Bledsoe"ers after he left and they replaced him with Bill Morris (who was somewhat weird, but always struck me as too good for the N&R)
One of my favorite Bledsoe pieces, and I can't even remember what year this was, but it was a few days after the Marine Corps announced they would be ending kitchen patrol duty. Bledsoe wrote a hilarious piece about how that was one of the most character-building things about his stint in the Corps.
Bledsoe is one of the few modern Americans I can envision at the Continental Congress. Just be sure to put him at the same table as Lewis Grizzard and Thomas Sowell :-)