Say Kids, What Time Is It?

 I am reading a book called The Other Custers.

George Armstrong Custer, who married Elizabeth Bacon, had three brothers and one sister. The book covers from their births, through the Civil War and Little Big Horn in Montana Territory, and more. Brother Tom won two Medals of Honor. Boston was not named after our town but after a small town in Pennsylvania called East Boston where their mother was from. I am still reading.

His brother Nevin was the only brother who did not go to war. Tom and Boston, and sister Maggie's husband  James Calhoun, all died on that hill near the Big Horn River. In the end Captain Myles Kehoe's horse, Comanche, was the only warm body of the Seventh Calvary still standing. Crazy Horse, Gaul, and Sitting Bull were not harmed.

Nevin had a daughter named Clarabelle. We know Clara from Hotel Cabanas on Isla Mujeres.

Why is that name familiar? Then it hit me, “Say kids, what time is it?"

Sing with me, "It’s Howdy Doody time, it's Howdy Doody time!"

It ran on TV from 1946 until 1960. Buffalo Bob was the host. How did he come up with that name? He lived to be 80. Some of the characters were 

• Clarabell

•  Princess SummerFallWinterSpring

• puppet Howdy, of course  
• Phineas T. Bluster
• and Don Salmond's favorite, Chief Thunderthud

No wonder that children born in the 40’s, especially Republicans, are dull witted.

Bob Bacon 1945