Welcome to another one of Grandpa Hill’s True Stories. Don and Mary are going up North to Michigan Tech in 1977. They would secure a place up at the college for Don to stay, with Bruce for his last year prior to getting married. Late at night as they travel along interstate I-75 near the intersection with M-72 Mary sees a light in the distance and slams on the brakes. The car shakes hard as the old brakes struggle to slow it down!
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When Grandpa Lies to the Policeman – Slightly Wiser Story
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Fishing With A Four Year Old – Children’s Stories
Grandpa Hill shares another true personal story of fishing with a four year old. Grandpa claims to have always caught something on every fishing trip, even this one. Caleb his grandson challenges Grandpa when he seems to contradict himself, ‘Sometimes never even getting a bite, yet always catching something. Come on! Which is it?’
In this true story Rebecca is the four year old, the gear is a bamboo pole, the catch….. well you will have to listen to the story!
Grandpa assures the audience that this trip like every fishing trip or family adventure gave him and his children precious memories that have lasted a life time. This one fishing with a four year old was exceptional fun and excitement. Grandpa Hills Children Stories and Health Stories are listened to in dozens of countries, dozens of States in the USA, and dozens of communities in Pennsylvania. Please spread these stories far and wide, it will probably help make the world a better place. You will probably never know exactly how but one thing affects another and then surprise you are telling your own stories, and, learning from Grandpa Hill’s true stories. Think. Do what you can. Then laugh and live.
Credits:
Produced by David Richman,
Executively Produced by Grandpa HillGrandchildren in the audience: Breandan
Music: Michael Steele
Art: Amy Steele
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A Boy and His Dog Jack – Children’s Story
Andrew really wanted to be in 4H and show a dog. Rebecca his sister had a dog, and, she was in the show. He had two huge obstacles to overcome. First he was too young to enter the show at the Indiana County Fair. Second he did not have a dog!
Determined, he got the best dog he could get from his sister Amy. His name was Jack, the last of the Jack’s. Andrew’s persistence, was endearing. He won over a lot of the 4H leaders and organizers.
In a class of his own, Andrew and his dog Jack, were registered, and, entered the show. They won blue ribbons!
For Andrew’s Dad, Rebecca, and Andrew it was one of the best days at the Indiana County Fair that ever was.
Credits:
Produced by David Richman,
Executively Produced by Grandpa HillGrandchildren in the audience: Breandan
Music: Michael Steele
Art: Amy Steele
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Grandpa Burns Down His Fort – Childhood Story
In the winter of 1968 Grandpa Don and his friend Bill Lecuru in Rochester Michigan, built a fort of sticks and newspaper in the woods near Bill’s house. Grandpa was 14 and the fort was not warm enough for the two boys to stay warm so a very small fire was needed, inside of the fort. Like a teepee.
Don was not thinking about how strong the draft would be. Shortly after they were starting to get heat off the fire sparks went up and lit the newspaper on the inside of the fort. Within a couple of seconds it was clear that they had to get out of the fort, through the fire. A few seconds after the boys scramble out the entire fort is a roaring blaze.
Gorf and Marshmallow discuss how serious, and dangerous and dumb and stupid it was to have a fire inside of a small fort constructed of sticks and paper. They review how there are lots of ways we can learn to do things right. One way is to make mistakes and learn not to do that in the future. Another way is to listen to other peoples stories, and learn from their success and their mistakes.
Grandpa Hill hope’s you listen and share Grandpa Hill’s True Stories with your friends and family. Then sit back, think about the story, talk about it, share your own stories, then laugh, and live!
Credits:
Produced by David Richman,
Executively Produced by Grandpa HillGrandchildren in the audience: Breandan
Music: Michael Steele
Art: Amy Steele
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Grandpa Left His Body – Faith & Family Story
Grandpa left his body in 2003. He was 46 years old living in Iselin PA. While on the operating table sedated as a surgery was being performed, he got the privilege of watching the Doctor examine the tumor he had just removed.
As Grandpa Hill tells this story to his grandchildren, they have just as much trouble trying to understand Grandpa’s story as Grandpa did 20 years ago when he first realized he had left his body. Grandpa believes that this was a bit of first hand evidence that he is more than just his body and his brain. He always believed he had a soul but didn’t really know what it was. This out-of-body, experience was proof to him that he was more than flesh and bones.
Please enjoy the story, think about it, and go about laughing and living your life. Share this story and of course tell your own stories to your children, your grandchildren, and all children. Shalom.
Credits:
Produced by David Richman,
Executively Produced by Grandpa HillGrandchildren in the audience: Breandan
Music: Michael Steele
Art: Amy Steele
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Two Women That Talked Too Much – Faith and Family Story
Grandpa Hill knows lots of people that just talk way too much! Two special women to him really talk a lot. At one time, Don was quite sure they both talked too much. Mary Lee, Don’s wife, and his oldest daughter Patricia are the two ‘talkers’ that taught him a lesson and the value of sharing stories with and taking the time to get to know and share with people about yourself.
This story is about learning that lesson, learning to be patient and learning the importance of sharing your story as you get to know others, be friendly, and perhaps make a friend.
Just today when Mary Lee and I went for our daily walk, she met Tiffany in the park. The two of them talked for about 30 minutes. Her story was sad and she looked desperate. Her tears seemed genuine. Telling her story seemed to lift some of the burden she was bearing. Mary Lee assured her of God’s Love for her and not to give up. Please pray for Tiffany. We will.
Please, Think, Laugh, and Live and share Grandpa Hill’s True Stories!
Credits:
Produced by David Richman,
Executively Produced by Grandpa HillGrandchildren in the audience: Breandan
Music: Michael Steele
Art: Amy Steele
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Grandpa Sees an Angel – Faith and Family Story
In 1988 Grandpa Hill (Don) and his family were at a parish mission in Burnsville Minnesota. Just before the priest called on Don to come up front for a demonstration about faith and trust, an angel came and sat down next to Grandpa.
Grandpa really doesn’t know what angels are. He calls what he saw an angel because it seemed friendly, calm, and all energy. Whatever it was that evening he first sensed it’s approach, saw it for a second or two and then responded to the priest. As Don left the pew to ‘volunteer’ for the demonstration in front of what seemed like over a thousand people, the angel was gone!
Don describes the faith moment, his demonstration of the concept of trust, and, how interesting it was for one time in his life to sense and see some sort of being that he truly thinks was an angel, sitting with him. Either Don had the wildest imagination in the world, or he really saw something, or both!
In any case, please know that Grandpa Hill’s Stories are True Stories, as true as he can remember them. This encounter with this ‘angel’ truly happened to him. It was definitely a faith moment, and, has always been an inspiration to him when he is being reluctant or hesitant to do what he really thinks God would like him to do.
Please enjoy and please share this story and this podcast. It really means a lot to Grandpa Hill to share and teach to entertain and to make it easier for others to think laugh and live regardless of the troubles of the day or times we live in. Use the stories to remember and share your own stories of when you grew up or you learned something true. What you do matters, it matters to the whole world.
As of today April 21, 2023, Grandpa Hill’s True Stories have been listened to in 28 countries, 173 cities in 36 of the United States of America. That’s way over 33,000 minutes helping you and your children to think, laugh, and live. Listen, listen, listen. Share Share Share. Thank you!
Credits:
Produced by David Richman,
Executively Produced by Grandpa HillMusic: David Richman
Art: Amy Steele
Grandchildren in the audience: Annette, and Breandan.
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The Healing Power of a Grape Leaf
Grandpa is taking his daughter Amy across the fields of western Wisconsin in 1990. The two of them had come out of the woods away from the rest of the group. The Romo’s children, and their mom, Mrs Teresa Romo and Don and his four children had spent the late morning hours foraging for medicinal herbs and wild foods.
They had experienced seeing baby raccoons in an old tree stump. They had gotten a few mosquito bites and now the push was to get back to the farm house. Little did they know that off of the beaten path there would be an old fence line and there would be bees! Bumblebees!
As they were crossing the last fence line, Amy disturbs a modest nest of bumblebees. She gets stung and immediately starts to swell. Donald knows that their visit with the Romo’s would now get cut short with a trip to the emergency room. Amy has many allergies and bee stings is one of them.
When they get to the farm house her hand is quite swollen. As Don and Mary Lee start to fuss, there is no alarm from Teresa. She pulls out a wild grape leaf from her bag we had filled that morning. She places it in shallow water in a frying pan on the stove. The leaf becomes soft and thick. Teresa proceeds to wrap Amy’s badly swollen hand in the grape leaf and we proceeded to fix lunch.
Before Amy sits down to her lunch, the swelling is completely gone. What Benadryl couldn’t do in an hour, the grape leaf had done in just minutes. Grandpa learned the healing powers of a grape leaf. He also learned a lesson about knowledge, being curious, and the importance of sharing what you know with others.
Gorf and Marshmallow also marvel at the power of a grape leaf and how smart, resourceful and wise Mrs Romo is. Semloh takes the opportunity to teach Gorf and Marshmallow a relevant lesson about knowledge and learning.
How did Mrs. Romo know of the power of a grape leaf and the value of dozens of other plants that grew in her own “back yard”?
Please share often, follow, and listen often to Grandpa Hill’s True Stories as you and your children learn to think and then laugh and live life fully.
Credits:
Produced by David Richman,
Executively Produced by Grandpa HillGorf: Grandpa
Marshmallow: David Richman
Semloh: David Richman
Music: Michael Steele
Art: Amy Steele
Grandchildren in the audience: Annette, Breandan, Eoghan, David
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Lots of Bumble Bees
In the summer of 1968 Grandpa Hill (Donald) was playing with Mike Martin his cousin. They were along Hamlin Road in Rochester Michigan playing tricks on his brother Eugene. Donald and Mike decide to hide from Eugene after they had secretly dropped leaves and twigs from high up in the tree nearly hitting Eugene as he pedaled buy.
Those trees are gone now. The old fence line where Donald and Mike had hid is gone now. Hamlin Rd no longer cuts through farm land. Rather there are large houses and a nearby industrial park. What isn’t gone is the memory of the revenge of lots and lots of Bumble Bee’s.
Donald and Mike had hid from Eugene on top of the bumble bee nest!
Grandpa learned a lesson that day. He remembered it well. Until he didn’t! But that, is another story.
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Credits:
Produced by David Richman,
Executively Produced by Grandpa HillGorf: Grandpa
Marshmallow: David Richman
Music: Michael Steele
Art: Amy Steele
Grandchildren in the audience: Annette, Breandan, Eoghan, and David.