Column: Happy 100th birthday, Fred Manfred

April 13, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Worthington Daily Globe

WORTHINGTON Two carloads of us drove to Blue Mounds State Park one Saturday last October. The sky was blue as 300 robins’ eggs, the way it is in October. I suppose the temperature was 70, maybe 75. We were trying to soak up heat because, of course, we knew an arctic winter was just ahead of us.
Everybody went on a hike along one of the trails but I stayed at the park headquarters, once Frederick Manfred’s house. Continue Reading