{"id":12422,"date":"2010-02-12T05:30:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T13:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=12422"},"modified":"2010-02-11T23:42:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T07:42:17","slug":"happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/12422","title":{"rendered":"Pappy’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nJoseph Polchin, Sr. (1906-99)<\/em><\/p>\n

Today is my grandfather’s birthday. <\/p>\n

I always thought it was cool that his birthday was celebrated with a National Holiday. He always reminded me of Lincoln<\/a> anyway. We call him ‘Pappy.’<\/p>\n

Pappy spent most of his life in Hazleton, PA<\/a> (my family is from there). Loved baseball, enjoying a cigar (taught me how to correctly smoke one), could bake a killer huckleberry<\/a> pie (with berries picked locally, they grew wild in Hazleton) – and I still have a full bottle of the Windsor Canadian Whisky<\/a> he picked up on his last visit to California (he always insisted on the cheap stuff). At this point – it’s at least 20 years old – makes a really smoooth cocktail.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the 1930s, Pappy took a printing\/typesetting correspondence course. He actually knew a bit about what I do as a graphic\/font designer. He was one of the few in my family I could talk to about my chosen profession. <\/p>\n

So have a whisky (or martini<\/a>), cigar, kick back and enjoy Pappy’s Day 2010.<\/p>\n

Photo taken by Bob Gray, Winter 1987<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t

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