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| Carl Christensen in his old age -- still looking pretty hale! |
A bon voyage from Carl at the end of the transcript. We are grateful to him, as well, for preserving all this history for us!
I’m very happy to know that there is someone that has
interest enough in Manitowish Waters to bring back some of this history. I’m
very happy that Hurley is going to relinquish and let the folks pick up my coat
and my scrapbook and bring it to Manitowish Waters, where it really belongs.
Because at the time that I sent that to Hurley, I sent it up to one of the
reporters, Armand Cirilli (sp?), a reporter for the Iron County Miner [whom] I
knew very well. I asked him if he would take care of it and bring it over to
them. He wrote back to me, that’s too bad, he says, that you don’t send it to
Manitowish Waters, he says, because that’s where it really happened, that’s
where it should be.
I didn’t write but I telephoned back to him and I says, you
know Armand, I says, there’s no place in Manitowish Waters that they can keep
it. I didn’t know at that time that they had the nice new town hall and all
those different things that they have there now. So that’s how it got into
Hurley. Now I know from the curator up there, I’ve talked to her both on the
telephone and also correspondence, that they are willing to turn that coat over
to Manitowish Waters. I’m very, very happy to know it.
I also, through Mark
(Leistickow), I have learned so much about Manitowish Waters and how it has
grown and everything else. It really does my heart good. I don’t know how much
time I’ve got left in this world now because I’m going to be ninety two years
old now on July the fifth this year (1993). I’m still physically able to be
around but when you get up in years, why, your get up and go is went. Mine is
beginning to go. I would love to see what Manitowish Waters was like now, but
there is no chance at all anymore. So take care and God bless all you folks in
Manitowish Waters, and enjoy life as much as you can.
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