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As Told By C.S. Beaty

My name is Chris Beaty and I like to tell stories. Some of my stories are funny. Some of them are dumb But if I do it right, they"re all entertaining. This is stuff that happened to me, I think you might like it. www.chrisbeaty.com

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10:26

As Told By Uncle Bob: Letters to the Editor

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2025/10/28

By Bob Copperstone Thanks for reading! Subscribe here and get the first chapter of Loser*: A Survival Guide to High School Popularity by C.S. Beaty! Letter to EditorNov. 16, 2024Bargain-Basement ComicsBy Bob CopperstoneAll the daily newspapers serving our part of eastern Nebraska are owned by a single entity, and share a thrifty, barebones half-page comics section. Recently they announced another shuffle.We lost Doonesbury, among other worthy strips, and left these dregs behind:“Family Circus”: The

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10:29

As Told By Uncle Bob: Wahoo's Most Versatile Roadway

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2025/10/21

By Bob CopperstoneA wonderfully quaint wooden viaduct once spanned Wahoo’ s Second Street between Chestnut and Broadway.It was a formidable, three-stage bridge with an approach, level top, and descent. It carried traffic over a small ravine, while the Chicago & North Western Rail Road (that’s how they spelled the company name then) freight trains passed underneath.Thanks for reading! Subscribe to read the first chapter of Loser*: A Survival Guide to High School Popularity by C.S. Beaty.The

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8:55

As Told By C.S. Beaty: Watch Your Finger

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2025/10/14

As it turns out, the only real difference between stroking the head of our pet cat Bengals and the head of a live cheetah, is that the cheetah seems to enjoy it more.I had the Cango Wildlife Ranch in Oudtshoorn, South Africa to thank for this knowledge, where they let you go into the animal cages and pet the animals. Granted, it wasn’t all the animals. And the line was too long to pet a full-grown cheetah, so my wife and I elected to stroke the head of a smaller “junior cheetah.” But still. You

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9:49

As Told By Uncle Bob: Dumpster Diving

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2025/10/07

By Bob Copperstone Dumpster-Diving Into History: Citizens Rescue Nearly Century-Old Bound NewspapersThanks for reading! Subscribe to get the first chapter of Loser*: A Survival Guide to High School Popularity by C.S. Beaty for FREEWAHOO -- If it weren’t for just plain luck -- aided by the city library director, a history-loving studio photographer and a museum curator -- a slice of Saunders County journalistic history would have perished from local view.In recent weeks, the interior of the Wahoo

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9:29

As Told By C.S. Beaty: Joe the Cab Driver

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2025/09/30

It was a Saturday night that bled into Sunday morning when Patrick Kane— the Chicago Blackhawk’s number one overall pick in the 2007 NHL draft—was arrested along with his cousin for charges of felony robbery, theft of services, and criminal mischief. The high-profile athlete was back in his hometown of Buffalo, New York. When the Kanes’s taxi arrived at their destination of Eastwood Place in South Buffalo, their fare was $13.80. They gave the driver $15.When 62-year-old Jan Radecki gave them back a

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10:02

As Told By C.S. Beaty: My Parent's 50th Wedding...

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2025/09/23

My parents had their 50th anniversary this year, and during their party, I pulled them aside to ask them a series of questions about their relationship. My six -year-old son and eight-year-old daughter came up with the initial questions, but since those were all pretty stupid, we asked AI to write the rest of the interview for us.This is that interview.Thanks for reading By C.S. Beaty! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.CHRIS:All right. You remember the newlywed

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6:59

As Told By Uncle Bob: Carnivals

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2025/09/09

By Bob CopperstoneWhen I was growing up in Wahoo in the 1940s and early ‘50s, carnivals made my summer vacations even more golden.That’s right, carnivals PLURAL, three of them. (Four, counting Ashland’s, but I couldn’t walk that far.)First off, there was the downtown Wahoo street carnival (today barely remembered by most people), second was the Saunders County Fair carnival, and third, of course, late summer bought the giant Nebraska State Fair to Lincoln. (Our parents had to drive us to that

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8:57

As Told By Uncle Bob: Summer Time

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2025/09/02

By Bob CopperstoneRoot Beer RecollectionsPulling memories out of one's childhood is often a risky, hit-and-miss effort, and the results may sometimes (most of the times?) fall short of absolute historical accuracy.Often, I will pluck a plum from my memory, only to have friends or relatives who were there with me pluck altogether different fruits from their own remembering.Which are the correct ones? Oddly enough, all of them are the right ones, and none are incorrect, per se. Each human memory is

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7:47

As Told By Uncle Bob: Teenage Snacks

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2025/08/26

By Bob CopperstoneI Was a Teen-Age Soda JerkBeginning at age 10 in 1949, and lasting through my teen years, I found myself rather unwillingly behind the soda fountain, feeding and refreshing the sugar-rushed customers at downtown Wahoo’s Wigwam Café.My parents, Hank and Irma Copperstone, had purchased the Wigwam, along with partners Clair (Muzzy) and Dorothy (Dodo) Miller.My sisters Rochelle and RoJane (Janie) and I were, of course, pressed into service to help make a go of the family business.I was

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9:53

As Told By Uncle Bob: Farm Memories

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2025/08/19

By Bob CopperstoneHi, folks: I'll share with you some fond memories of harvest time on the farm.I know that most of you were never farmers. Me, neither.But thanks to my Aunt Clara and Uncle Jerry Bartusek, the seeds of farm memories were planted deeply into my young mind, and I am gleefully reaping their harvest today.Here is my take on the memories, written for the upcoming newsletter of the Saunders County Nebraska Genealogy Seekers (Gen Seekers).Farm Harvest MemoriesMy favorite adventures as a

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9:03

As Told By Uncle Bob: Fremont, Nebraska

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2025/08/05

By Bob CopperstoneThe placement of the city of Wahoo on Nebraska road maps quite handily positions Wahoo almost equidistant from each of three of the largest cities in the state.Omaha: (approximately) 45 miles; Lincoln: 40; Fremont: 35.Wahoo had its share of good doctors, optometrists, dentists, general practitioners and such, but for more specialized cases, we relied on a creaky-old bus system to take us to one of the Big Three cities.I have loved big-little Fremont since I was growing up in Wahoo

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10:00

As Told By C.S. Beaty: Polar Plunging

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2025/06/24

I’ve never liked being called the “baby of the family,” even if it is accurate.My sister, Denise, is 12 years older than me, so naturally our adolescent life experiences didn't have a lot of overlap. By the time I finished kindergarten, Denise was already out of the house. After she moved away for college, it didn’t take long before I noticed her spending a lot of time with a "friend" of hers named John.I liked John, but we didn’t have much in common. He was a few years older than Denise, so the age

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9:21

As Told By C.S. Beaty: Tuesdays With Uncle Bob

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2025/06/10

I'm using a mint green Hermes Rocket typewriter to write this. It resides underneath my computer monitor when not in use since its low profile was designed to be so compact it could be toted around war zones for correspondences in Vietnam. Or something like that. It was the coolest looking typewriter when I typed “typewriter” into an eBay search bar after being infatuated by the documentary California Typewriter. It was my third typewriter, fourth if you count my Lego typewriter—which my kids do.My

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8:51

As Told By Uncle Bob: Secret Basement Lair

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2025/06/03

By Bob CopperstoneCoins of the Realm, and Where to Find ThemWhile I was “Growing Up Wigwam” in the 1950s, I treated downtown Wahoo as if it were my own little kingdom.Thanks for reading By C.S. Beaty! Subscribe to read the first chapter of Chris’s upcoming book about being a loser in high school. My kingdom’s capital city, of course, was the Copperstone family-owned Wigwam Café, where my very soul resided, and where I played out my royal existence.Prince Bobby, if you please.My royal throne was the

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11:26

As Told By Uncle Bob: The Chicken, The Egg, and The Axe

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2025/05/20

Warning: This story contains depictions of the deaths and tribulations of cute, fuzzy and feathered little creatures. Children, non-farmers and other super-sensitive individuals may be offended by exposure to the real world.By Bob CopperstoneThanks for reading By C.S. Beaty! Subscribe and receive the first chapter of Chris’s book about being a loser in high school.Chickens -- the raising of them and the eggs from them -- played an outsized role in my boyhood in mid-century Wahoo.Some of my

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6:02

As Told By Uncle Bob: The Bomber Plant and the...

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2025/05/13

By Bob CopperstoneThroughout its active existence, The Nebraska Ordnance Plant near Mead was an early part of my life in Wahoo. Some of my school-yard friends had bomb-maker parents, I guess you could say.We children weren’t particularly aware of the bomber plant’s (That’s what we always called it, always adding the “er”) deadly but necessary wartime mission. I do remember somber snatches of gossip about how our little spot on the map could be targeted by Axis enemies with bombs of their own.I’m

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12:19

As Told By Uncle Bob: The Bomber Plant (Part 1 of 2)

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2025/05/06

By Bob CopperstoneHaving grown up in Wahoo in the early 1940s, it was inevitable that World War II would cast a somber shadow over my childhood.The Nebraska Ordnance Plant (“bomber plant” as it is still called) was near the village of Mead, a mere nine miles east of Wahoo.It wasn’t talked about too much, but for years it festered in the back of our minds that our little dot on the map was certain to be in Nazi gunsights if Germany invaded the U.S.The bomber plant gave a face to the undercurrent of a

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9:19

As Told By C.S. Beaty: I Didn't Realize You Were In Here

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2025/04/22

My wife arranged an early check-in time at our New Orleans Air BnB, we wanted to get rid of our bags before wandering through the city. An Uber abandoned us at our residence for the next several nights, Paige had found a signature New Orleans shotgun house so we could get the signature New Orleans experience. We carefully followed the check-in instructions, decided we were in the right place, and knocked on the front door.No answer.Ok, give it a few minutes.Still no answer.Try knocking again? Ok

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8:22

As Told By Uncle Bob: A Corner To Pee In

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2025/04/15

By Bob Coperstone Thanks for reading By C.S. Beaty! Subscribe for free to receive the first chapter of Chris’s book about being a loser in high school for free!A Corner to Pee InI am delighted to read in the Wahoo Newspaper that the Omaha Steel Castings Co. is planning to preserve the old circular cement corncrib at the entrance of its new factory at the northeast part of town.OSC President Phil Teggart has told Wahoo folks the structure would remain standing as a talking point for people who enter

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13:02

As Told By Uncle Bob: Dead Animals

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2025/04/01

By Bob CopperstoneEmpty Bird Nest GriefIt’s taking the orphaned baby robins such a long time to die…It’s breaking my heart, and I feel helpless, but I don’t know how to save them.They seemed doomed to die, and to my horror and remorse, I’m partly, if not completely, to blame for their peril.In a grim ritual, I check the nest every couple of hours, hoping to see the mother robin feeding and warming her babies. She hasn’t returned, though, and the babies are slipping away, weaker and hardly

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