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Brushes & Blueprints
Memoirs By Gerald William Froehlich

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PART ONE - pages 1 - 166
PROLOGUE
SIOUX CITY
Early Years
Washington School
Other Early Adventures
Neighbors
Aunts, Uncles and Cousins
Redeemer Lutheran Church (and Christmas)
A Working Life
Teenager
High School
COLLEGE DAYS
The State University of Iowa (SUI)
IOWA STATE COLLEGE
THE YEAR OF THE WOLF
Iowa State Final Years
Graduation Postscript: Diaspora of the 1956 Architectural Degree Class:
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL
Free At Last: June 1956
1957 - More of the Same (and something completely different)
Last Summer of Youth (A Summer that I Wish I could Live Once More)
A Tumultuous Autumn
1958 - Starting a Different Life
1959 and Beyond - More of the Same
MINNESOTA 1965 - FINAL ACT
CINCINNATI - ANOTHER ROAD TAKEN
New Beginnings
Erlkönig
Into the Breach
Acclimating
Schultage
Sioux City Farewell
Dog Days
Family Visit
Settling In
Feast and Famine
A Few Good Years in Fairview Heights
All Good Things
Flight to Suburbia
A Checkered Year (1973)
Resurrection
Fleeting Years
Marie - A Memory
SOLO

PART TWO - pages 166 to 388
ANOTHER LIFE
Laura Goodell
Courtship
Prelude
Hochzeit
Off and Running
October Surprise
End of a Memorable Year
A CHANGING SCENE
Life Anew
As Time Goes By
A Year to Remember
JOURNEYMAN ARCHITECT
PERPETUAL MOTION
LAST HURRAH
TWENTY FIRST CENTURY
CHICAGO - Memories
Afterword


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