Growing up in rural Menomonie, Wisconsin, people had perceptions of our little family. Lots and lots of different perceptions. Most of it was that we were a rich family. We, unfortunately, were not rich. We weren’t poor, but we sure as shit weren’t rich. My father’s name was Norman Keith Rockwell. He was a cartoonist…
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Urn Living: My Father’s First Time On a Plane
This is my father pictured below. Norm Keith Rockwell. He went by Keith, but people loved to call him Norman Rockwell because who wouldn’t! He WAS an art teacher and a magazine cartoonist, not the painter, not that that mattered. In 2023 he died after a short illness he was hoping would be a bit…