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SHEP! I'm such a huge fan! I really did listen to him in the middle of the night oh so long ago!

IIRC didn't he do a reading of Sam McGee on the episode of Jean Sheperd's America? It was the one where he holed up in a blizzard at a truck stop at Donner Summit.

I've got my 16 year old sone hooked on "In God We Trust, All Other's Pay Cash!" Both his older brother and sister are Shep fans too.

His style really crossed boundaries and strikes a resonant chord.

I work with Jack Bogut...Pittsburgh radio legend...who is also a great story teller. Similar to Shep. Check out his webpage at

Jack Bogut

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I've been a Jean Shepherd fan since I was 12 or so, and I also used to listen to him on my clock radio, first at the urging of my father, and later as a rabid fan.

I believe he did read Sam McGee on one of his PBS-TV shows, and I think he also did "The Shooting of Dan McGrew". Imagine Donner Summit in a blizzard- perfect. I can't tell you how many times I've read and re-read "In God We Trust" but also "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories", and "Fistful of Fig Newtons".

To this day, Shep remains the greatest storyteller I have ever heard, though I'll give Mr. Bogut a listen -and I thank you for the link.

Wife and I originally from westmoreland, Irwin & Calumet. We live 110 miles downriver from dawson and travel the yukon alot. Many old ghost towns from gold rush days; little more than 100 years and almost completely gone from landscape. Towns of 2000-5000 men every 20 miles or so and all that remains is the overgrowth of brush where town site once stood. Our community which was once the territorial capital of 10,000, now 100 whites, 30 Indians. I enjoy scrounging around these old sites and thinking about the people not all that far back.

Alot of the locals still operate dredges, less regulation along with less people. You have to haul everything in when trails are hard by snowmachine. When I get 75 miles back these old trails, cold, wet, and tired; and think about how tough the people were back then; I wonder about our future. Wasn't any social network, quite a few factors came into play concerning ones survival and I believe that generally stimulated the best in people. Different today.

I temper that thought in anticipation of Pens/Blkhawks game I will be watching later today on Center Ice HD. Naw, no going back for me either; luv that big Samsung as much as country up here too;;; at least in February that is.