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After ending “A Salesman’s Guide to Hunting” the way I did I had to come up with away for Linda and Peter to get together. What better place than a place neither had been.Why did you pick Vancouver, British Colunbia, Canada?That is a long story. I was building a sales territory made up of seventeen …
When I finished writing “The Vancouver Rendezvous” Lind and Peter returned to their respective homes with a plan to meet again prior to this year’s deer hunt. Therefore I had to create a story around that. Why did you choose the title This Time I’ll Stay? If you go back to the story line in …
My first publisher Tate went out of business and they had published the three books inthe, The Deer/Dear Hunt series. These were “A Salesman’s Guide to Hunting”, “TheVancouver Rendezvous” and “This Time I’ll Stay”. When I wrote these stories I hadenvisioned them as one book. My Tate editor, at the time, counseled me and convincedme …
I have always told myself stories when driving to keep myself awake. It started when Iwas a farm kid about eleven or twelve. I, at an early age, learned how to drive and wasable to control the tractor precisely enough to cultivate rows of corn. You cultivate thecorn rows by driving along straddling the row …
It is a Christian book in that it is based on the actions of Christian people. It depicts themembers of a fictional congregation, Shepherd of the Sheep Church, in the greaterAtlanta area as they go about their lives. It does not promote any specific doctrine, but itdoes promote the spreading of the Gospel.Why did you …
I was good friends with a Lutheran pastor who, had fallen in love and married a Catholicgirl before he felt the call to become a Lutheran Minister. We were discussing theunintentional consequences of falling in love with a girl of another faith and the effect ithad on the families of both persons.He had gone through …
I was born on February 26, 1940 at Edgerton, Wisconsin. My parents Martin Henry KarlOberdeck and Leora Ann Oberdeck NE Dallman owned a small dairy farm four miles west ofEdgerton Wisconsin.As a young child I was allowed to wander about and explore nature with my trustycompanion and protector Bingo, my dog. I heard that people …
On my 73 rd birthday someone, who shall remain nameless, asked me a very interesting question,one which many of us have been asked by various family members and others. The big questionthat was asked was: What do you remember from or about you youth. While lying awake atnight trying to bring on sleep I have …
Polio Graduate 1953I am Alan M. Oberdeck a APPA member since the 80’s when we met at Emory. I was born in Edgerton,Wisconsin Feb. 1940. I grew up on a dairy farm 4 miles west of Edgerton. In addition to the cows weraised tobacco. I attended a one room 8 grade country school.In 1952 I …
How I got run over by a waitress in a restaurant and survived Back in January of 1998 I was making sales calls with a distributor salesman at theWaupaca Gray Iron Foundry in Waupaca, Wisconsin. At that time they were in thebusiness of taking steel scrap, melting it down and turning it into manhole covers. …