100th birthday of PG and TD together; he was 51 and she was 49. (Yes, there are a hundred candles. Doubters have counted.)
PG and TD move to Minneapolis (not represented in the square).
- About
- Prologue
- My Ancestors
- Pomes
- The Crusades – 1934
- The Lion Hunt
- The New Year – 1936
- Of what use is life on earth
- The moon was in the heavens
- Spring – 1936
- Betty – 1936
- The Vision
- A Strange Experience
- The Fire
- Afraid to Die
- Devotion
- Counting Sheep – 1937
- Epic in the Morning – 1942
- Letter 1 – 1942
- Letter 2 – 1942
- Pome to Nana from Phil – 1942
- The Steeplechase – 1947
- We’ve got a new house – 1950
- Every ticking minute – 1951
- Thank You Note – 1955
- The Mare – 1956
- Poem on a Turnpike
- Plan Ahead – 1956
- First came the pot – 1956
- Limericks
- Merrily We Roll Along – 1938
- The Quilt
- Our Life Together
- Chapter 1: Thea’s Diary 1943-1960
- 1.1 Together -through 6/5/44
- 1.2 Philip at Sea -through 8/14/45
- 1.3 Together, Again -through 4/30/47
- 1.4 And Baby Makes Three -through 1/3/50
- 1.5 And Baby Makes Four -through 11/8/52
- 1.6 And Baby Makes Five -through 5/1/53
- 1.7 Long Island -through 1/3/55
- 1.8 Offers -through March 1957
- 1.9 Chicago, Here We Come -through 1960
- Chapter 2: Log of Our Travels by Thumb 1943-1944
- Chapter 3: Five Letters 1949-1956
- Chapter 5: Retirement 1991
- Chapter 4: William Prager: Personal Recollections – 1985
- Chapter 6: After 1991
- Chapter 1: Thea’s Diary 1943-1960
- The Seaman
- Letters
- Nonagenarian Natterings
- Contact
- Etc.
Mom and Dad were living in Minneapolis, Lisa was going to school at Macalester College in St. Paul, and Phil was working on a construction job in South St. Paul that November. So Lisa baked a normal sized layer cake, and Phil decorated it. 88 of the candles were conventional birthday cake candles. The other 12 looked like that, but were in fact sparklers that can’t be blown out. Packed that close allowed the sparklers to re-ignite the conventional, with the result being 4 laughing adults gasping for breath and a wax covered cake.