The Chautauqua Kids
& the Fuddy Duddy Daddy

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Richard Austin Maxwell likes his nickname: Pancake. Pancakes are his favorite food, after all. His favorite sport is baseball and his favorite place to play it, Chautauqua Park. When Mom leaves for a week, Pancake fears how boring it will be with “Fuddy Duddy Daddy” in charge. Can he survive without pancakes and baseball?

Al Fike, 1912-1996
The Modern Minstrel Man

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The pace of the early 1900’s was slow, the music sweet, and one learned by living. Then came the roaring 20's and a heady mixture of jazz, ragtime and blues prevailed. Al Fike heard the sounds of the country growing around him, made them his own, and regaled audiences from coast to coast in candy-striped jacket and straw hat. Well into the 40's, he kept the traditions of vaudeville alive with a “performance library” of American music, idioms, composers, and styles.