One hundred years ago today, on her second birthday, my mother and her parents entered the United States through Ellis Island, the Port of New York and New Jersey.
Anniversary of my mother’s immigration
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Yawn, Ouisconsin
Here’s an excerpt from my soon-to-be released unauthorized catalog of spurious knowledge about the Ouisconsin Territory. (The inspiration, W. T. Purdy’s 1909 “March-Song and Two-Step,” is better known as the University of Wisconsin fight song.)
YAWN, OUISCONSIN
Yawn, Ouisconsin,
Yawn, Ouisconsin
Plunge onto that couch
Gorge on chips and cheesy dip
To exercise your jaws
(you-rah-rah)
Yawn, Ouisconsin,
Yawn, Ouisconsin
Napping’s not a crime
Catch, fellows, forty winks
Before bed-time