Quotes by Rick Anderson

“It was fun naming the holes and I had some help, ... Some of the names were submitted by the public as possible names for the course. We didnt choose one of those, but we kept them and used some to name holes.”

“[The 12th hole actually has two lakes.] You could easily meet demise on this hole, ... Waterloo.”

“We talked about naming the course Blue Stem Plains and this hole will have the blue-stem grass planted along it.”

“Alice ... girls night out, set in the audience of a Chippendale dancers performance.”

“The nylon-string guitar has no more powerful advocate on the current jazz scene than Ken Hatfield, whose virtuosic fingerstyle technique is matched by an exceptional compositional gift and who succeeds better than most at stretching the boundaries of his instrument while playing and writing music that feels as friendly and naturally straight-ahead as anything by Charlie Byrd or Wes Montgomery.”

“Hes pretty good. Its going to be fun to watch him progress.”

“Tim told me that the car had to be done by July 2 for Johns class reunion. That gave me 47 calendar days to restore the car from bare frame to a completed car. Let me tell you, there were days that I didnt think it was going to happen.”

“There were many days that I worked late into the night to get that car finished in time, ... but at 5 p.m. on July 1, the car was started, tuned, and John drove it home. We had worked over 480 man-hours, but it was all worth it to see the smile on Johns face. To work on a car like this is a dream.”

“John had kept the car garaged most of the time, but as with most Model As, the floor pans and lower three inches of the body were rusted beyond repair and had to be replaced. My brother, Mike, helped me to restore the car as well. He stripped the entire car to bare metal, and then I welded in 13 different body panels to replace the rotted areas. Being 75 years old, the car had many dings and dents that had to be straightened.”

“He pitched without his best stuff and threw some good pitches. What was impressive for a young pitcher was that he kept composed and threw pitches.”