As I have talked about in a previous blog, Mike's boat is in the shop for repairs. So now what can we do on the weekends without sailing? It seems we have

to go and visit it at the repair shop. And then wander around the county looking for interesting things. Last weekend we drove over to Madison County and visited the birthplace of Marion Robert Morrison better know as John "Duke" Wayne. We were 6 weeks late for his 100 year birthday
celebration. But it was a fun half hour. As you can see the house is about 20 ft. square in total. It contains lots of John Wayne memorabilia. Most fun was reading the letters from his co-stars of the era with comments and memories of him. My favorite was from Maureen O'Hara saying that she needed more time to think and would write a proper letter later. She did,... about 7 years later. But she is over 85 yrs old now, so who can blame her if she forgot. The story they told as to how he got the nick name of Duke goes like this. When he was a boy, he took a lot of ribbing about his name of Marion so he would not tell people it. He had a dog named Duke that was his constant companion and people would say, "There go Big Duke and Little Duke." Hey, I dont make this stuff up!!!