BTW, my ancestors actually were sheep ranchers and merchants.
My grandad after whom I'm named was a Jack Mormon. He led the fight against the Sunday closing law in Salt Lake, and he sold an ocean of beer from his little markets and bars, which financed his sons' law school educations. His father converted to Mormonism in his native the Hague, Netherlands, but fell way, and most of my grand dad's siblings returned to the Dutch Reform church. My grandfather was not sophisticated in cultural matters. He once said to me, "The reason Marie Calendars does so well is that G--d d--mn kwitchee [how he pronouced quiche] they sell up there."
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Last edited by SeattleUte; 01-19-2007 at 07:21 PM.
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