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Laurel basketball makes lasting mark on Locomotives cheerleader One of the most enjoyable aspects of writing my Laurel basketball book has been the research. Specifically, doors have opened to meeting people willing to share quite interesting life stories . That experience occurred again about two weeks ago. I placed a call early one morning to Las Vegas for an
Dream Season at a glance Countdown to 26-0 Regular season play December 1968 No. 1 – Laurel 76, Lovell, Wyoming 57 Date – December 6, 1968; Location – Lovell, Wyoming. Guard Alan Campbell and forward Lee Perrigo combined for 44 points, powering the Locomotives to an easy season-opening win over Lovell. The non-conference game saw Laurel race to
Win 'em all - setting the stage March 15, 1969. 8:30 p.m. The Barn, as many called the Montana State University Fieldhouse, dominated the south end of the Bozeman college’s campus. It had opened 11 years earlier with the distinction of being the largest clear span wooden structure in the world. Constructed as much
Sharing memories with "the master" [https://www.treasurestatepress.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/05/wpid-20140503_124344.jpg] Norm Clarke gave me my first break in journalism when he hired me, at age 17, as a weekend sports clerk at the Billings Gazette. All these years later, as a famed columnist for the Las Vegas Journal-Review,
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Ink for Laurel "Dream Season" book in the Kalispell Daily Interlake Just learned today that the Kalispell Daily Interlake picked up the article I wrote and that the Billings Gazette published on March 15, 2014, the 45th anniversary of Laurel’s Big 32 basketball championship. An Interlake sportswriter, Joe Terry, wrote a nice sidebar to go with my piece. Here are
Laurel Big 32 championship-45th anniversary ink Got some great ink in the Billings Gazette last Saturday. Stories by Ed West ( the human encyclopedia of Montana prep sports) and myself. They’ve prompted a lot of wonderful feedback. I grabbed the only 10 or so print copies of the Gazette to be found in Belgrade Saturday morning
Girls Class B championship Sitting next to Jerry Bygren at the MSU Brick Breeden Arena. Malta leading Fairfield, which entered the title game with a 103-game winning streak. Upset and history in the making– again? Didn’t happen. Fairfield topped Malta, 60-55, on a double-overtime thriller to repeat as girls Class B champion and
Blast from the past Sitting here at MSU’s Brick Breeden Arena waiting for the State Class B boys championship to begin. Next to me is Jerry Bygren, a starter on Laurel’s 1969 Big 32 title team, the 26-0 squad that outlasted Kalispell in overtime. It’s a reunion of sorts although I
More research I’m heading to Bigfork on Sunday to interview Dorothy Peterson, widow of Laurel coach Don Peterson, and Jerry Bygren, a starter on the 1968-69 Locomotives team. Hoping for good roads and good conversation.
Broken Promises-Chapter 2 Broken Promises, Bold Dreams Dennis Gaub ©2013 Dennis Gaub CHAPTER 2 May 16, 1914, 7 a.m. Liverpool “Friedrich!” Anna Weiss called out to her husband. She raised her voice to speak above the steady pounding of the engines of the SS Teutonic. She and the rest of her extended
Broken Promises-Chapter 1 Broken Promises, Bold Dreams Dennis Gaub ©2013 Dennis Gaub CHAPTER 1 (This will describe the journey from the Gluckstal colony (in south Russia, modern-day Moldovia, and northwest of Odessa) to Liverpool. I have not been able to find enough details of how actual journeys occurred in 1914 upon which I’
Broken Promises, Bold Dreams - Introduction Broken Promises, Bold Dreams By Dennis Gaub ©2013 Dennis Gaub INTRODUCTION The immigrant experiences of my grandparents and great-grandparents, maternal and paternal, and all Germans from Russia, inspired this work of fiction. Both sets of ancestors hailed from the fertile plains of the Black Sea region of South Russia, near
Broken Promises, Broken Dreams - a start I’m exploring the blog-to-book concept here. As a member of a local writing group, I share sections of my manuscript with other authors, and they do the same with their works in progress. We hold weekly critique sessions. And I’m inviting input from a wider audience. I’ll
My writing project - a book on World War II hero Jim Muri and his upbringing See the description here [http://dennisgaub.me/work-in-progress/miles-citys-muris-answering-world-war-ii-call-of-duty/] . When I heard the news of Jim Muri’s passing on NPR [http://www.npr.org/2013/02/11/171737568/world-war-ii-pilot-was-initially-embarrassed-by-hero-status-after-battle-of-midwhttp://] last month, I remarked to my wife how pleased I was to know that someone from Eastern Montana, specifically Miles
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