Robert Clarence Guss Test Running Mimi St. Croix River Separating Minnesota And Wisconsin 1972-2008 #2
by David Lee Guss
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Robert Clarence Guss Test Running Mimi St. Croix River Separating Minnesota And Wisconsin 1972-2008 #2
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Robert Clarence Guss test running "Mimi," St. Croix River, separating Minnesota and Wisconsin, 1972-2008.
My father, Robert, obsessively spent seven years creating this vessel from scratch in the backyard of his St. Paul, Minnesota home. This moment of pure joy, was short lived, as he and my mother, Mary Ann, never had the opportunity to sail the "Seven Seas."
The ketch developed numerous leaks so they only made it down the mighty Mississippi to that cradle of jazz, New Orleans. "Mimi" was exchanged for a motor home and dad never talked about the craft again.
"It is the little things in life that count."...Robert Clarence Guss (1910-2000) R.I.P.
Another resident of St. Paul, writer F. Scott Fitzgerald said this:
"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."... (final line of "The Great Gatsby", 1925)...Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
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July 12th, 2016
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