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Places where I have lived -
February 1941 to 1943 (?) - 999 Whitmore, Detroit, Michigan (near Palmer Park) - parents rented here when they first moved from New York City to Detroit
February 1943 (?) to 1955 - 2224 Seminole Avenue, Detroit, Michigan (Indian Village neighborhood) - parents owned this house
summer of 1951 - Toat house and cottage near Portsmouth, in England - guest of the Dallas family for ten weeks
summer of 1953 - camp Chickopee in northern Ontario
1955 to 1956 - 3501 Lahser Road, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan - parents rented house
September 1956 to June 1958 - Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan - boarding student in Stevens Hall (third floor) during junior year and Marquis Hall (first floor) during senior year - graduated from high school in June 1958
June to August 1958 - Deep Springs Community College in California - during Telluride Association summer program
September 1958 to June 1959 - Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut - boarding student in Bingham Hall, Old Campus, freshman year
September 1959 to January 1961 - Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut - boarding student in Davenport college, sophomore and first half of junior year
June 1960 to September 1960 - Margaret Fielding’s apartment in the Bronx, New York - during summer employment at the Wall Street Journal
January 1961 to September 1961 - 131 Guilford Road, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan - stayed in parents’ new home after dropping out of college
October 1961 to June 1962 - Milbertshofen, Munich, Germany - rented room
July to November 1962 - Landshut, Bavaria, Germany - rented room
November to December 1962 - Berlin, Germany - rented room found by the Kilian family - worked at Borsig
September 1963 to June 1964 - Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut - boarding student in Davenport college, two different rooms and roommates
June 1964 to December 1964 - Newark, New Jersey - Newark YMCA and rented room near Rutgers college
January 1965 to March 1965 - Minneapolis, Minnesota - rented room at downtown YMCA
March 1965 to January 1967 - St. Paul, Minnesota - Capitol Heights - rented room just north of the state capitol
January 1967 to January 1970 - St. Paul, Minnesota - 461 (?) W. Maryland Avenue - shared second-floor apartment with three other men
January 1970 to August 1970 - St. Paul, Minnesota - 1076 (?) Selby Avenue (in block just east of Lexington) - rented rooms on third floor of Mrs Olson’s house
September 1970 to January 1971 - Milford, Pennsylvania - 100 Sawkill Avenue - spent several months in my parents’ empty house
January 1971 to June 1973 - Minneapolis, Minnesota - 18th Avenue SE (near east Hennepin) - rented upstairs room in her home from Mrs. Leavey
June 1973 to 1974 - White Bear Lake, Minnesota - 2095 Dotte Drive - rented apartment after getting married
1974 to 1982 - White Bear Lake, Minnesota - 5161 East County Line Road - lived with wife in our own home on the north end of White Bear Lake
1982 to 1991 - St. Paul, Minnesota - Greenbrier Street (between Jenks and Lawson) - rented upstairs room from Harvey Hyatt after getting divorced
1991 to 1992 - Minneapolis, Minnesota - 1618 Glenwood Avenue, apt. 9 - rented apartment for a year after I moved from Harvey’s house because of a fire
1992 - present (April 2017) Minneapolis, Minnesota - 1702 Glenwood Avenue - I own and live in this four-plex.
Churches that I regularly attended -
Presbyterian Sunday school - Detroit, Michigan near Jefferson Avenue in Indian Village - 1948-50
Old Christ church - Episcopalian - Detroit, Michigan, on Jefferson Avenue near downtown - 1950 - 1955 - was in the choir
Christ Church Cranbrook - Episcopalian - Bloomfield Hills, Michigan - 1956-58
Battell Chapel - nondenominational Protestant - on Old Campus, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut - 1958-61, 1963-64
St. Clement’s church - Episcopalian - St. Paul, Minnesota - 1967-70 - was in the choir
White Bear Unitarian church - Unitarian Universalist - Mahtomedi, Minnesota - 1973-80 - was church board president in 1977
First Unitarian Society - Unitarian Universalist - Minneapolis, Minnesota - 1980 - 1984
Temple of Eck - Eckankar - Chanhassen, Minnesota - world headquarters of this religion - 1985 to present - second initiate - introduced to this religion by my late brother
Television shows that I regularly watched -
Howdy Doody show - a national children’s show popular in the early years. I did not watch this show regularly but a photograph of me with a raccoon (“Coonie”) on my shoulder was once shown by host “Buffalo Bob” during the program as part of a contest to pick a Howdy Doody look-alike.
Disneyland - regularly watched this in the 1950s. American Motors was a sponsor.
Alfred Hitchcock presents - watched during my high-school years in the 1950s
Dean Martin show - early 1970s
Miami Vice - regularly watched during the 1980s
Late Night Show with David Letterman - Although I often watched Johnny Carson, I was a more frequent viewer when David Letterman hosted the NBC show.
Rachel Maddow show - Lately, I often tune in to see her show on MSNBC.
During all periods, I have been a steady viewer of the national and local news programs. I am less into sports.
Bill McGaughey in later years
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