by Dave Ferguson For several years I worked for Amtrak, the U.S. rail passenger company. Our offices were at 400 North Capitol Street in Washington DC, just a short walk from the U.S. Capitol. One day I had a phone call. The caller was very… enthusiastic. “Hello, Dave! This is Fred Sidecar!” That wasn’t his [...]
Characters • Ferguson, David • Stories • Storytellers • told by David Ferguson | Dave Ferguson December 26, 2006 | 
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by Hughie Ferguson as told to Dave Ferguson Hughie talked a few weeks ago with a former boss from his time working at Chrysler’s Warren Stamping Plant on Mound Road in Warren, Michigan. It reminded me…this was quite a while ago. It was on my birthday, so I decided that I wouldn’t work Saturday and [...]
Characters • Church, Al • Ferguson, Hughie • Stories • Storytellers • told by David Ferguson • told by Hughie Ferguson | Dave Ferguson December 15, 2006 | Comments (0)
by David Ferguson My cousin Frank once wrote about a report issued in Scotland that projected that in the future everyone in the world would be named Macdonald or descended from a Macdonald. “In other words,” Frank wrote, “they’re predicting the best of all possible worlds.” That world just came much closer. On my mother’s [...]
Characters • Ferguson, Hughie • Ferguson, Mattie • MacDougall, John • MacDougall, Sarah • MacFarlane, Catherine • MacLennan, Catherine • MacLennan, Roderick • Stories • Storytellers • told by David Ferguson | Dave Ferguson November 28, 2006 | Comments (0)
by David Ferguson I moved from Detroit to Washington DC in 1977. For many years afterward my parents would visit us from time to time. During one trip, in 1983, Dad said one day that he’d like to go into Washington with me (I was going into work part of the time while they were [...]
Characters • Ferguson, David • Ferguson, Hughie • Macdonald, Greet • Stories • Storytellers • told by David Ferguson | Dave Ferguson October 2, 2006 | Comments (0)
by David Ferguson I bought my first new car in 1974. I was torn between the VW Rabbit, a new model that year, and the Plymouth Valiant. The Rabbit was different, but it was also a new model that year. Consumer Reports liked the car overall, but of course had no information on how well [...]
Characters • Ferguson, David • Stories • Storytellers • told by David Ferguson | Dave Ferguson August 8, 2006 | Comments (1)
by David Ferguson I think it was the summer of 1966. I was sixteen, and as usual I was visiting Inverness with my family. “With my family” isn’t exactly right. Once we grew out of toddlerhood, when we went down home my parents would farm us out to different relatives. My brother John usually stayed [...]
Characters • Duffitt, Olive • Dunn, Patricia • Ferguson, Art • Ferguson, Danny (Skel) • Ferguson, David • Ferguson, John • Ferguson, Roddie • Kennedy, Dan • Macdonald, Billie • Stories • Storytellers • told by David Ferguson | Dave Ferguson May 2, 2006 | Comments (3)
by Greet Macdonald as told to David Ferguson When Dad left [Inverness], it was February of ’52. and he stayed for our anniversary, but I don’t know when after that he left, shortly after. We had a bad winter. We were snowed in; they had to shovel us out one time. I was there two [...]
Characters • Ferguson, Art • Ferguson, David • Ferguson, Hughie • Macdonald, Frank • Macdonald, Freddie • Macdonald, Greet • Macdonald, Jackie • Stories • Storytellers • told by David Ferguson • told by Greet Macdonald | Dave Ferguson March 14, 2006 | Comments (2)
by Hughie Ferguson and Greet Macdonald as told to David Ferguson Greet: When Roddie was really sick, we made a point of going. We always stopped to see them anyway as we drove down and back. But the last year we were going to stay two or three days in Antigonish. And we were going [...]
Characters • Dunn, Patricia • Ferguson, Hughie • Ferguson, Roddie • Macdonald, Greet • Stories • Storytellers • told by David Ferguson • told by Greet Macdonald • told by Hughie Ferguson | Dave Ferguson March 9, 2006 | Comments (0)
