Grandpa Hill's True Stories

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  • How to Lose Teeth Fast

    How to Lose Teeth Fast

    Losing My Two Front Teeth is a story for Grandpa Hill’s 8 children, 22 grand children, and all children.   Four of his grandchildren are ready for bed, listening to Grandpa Hill recall the fun time when he had his teeth and played in the clean sheets that his mother had washed and hung to dry.
    Losing teeth the natural and normal way is usually very exciting and sometimes a little painful.  Grandpa lost his teeth in a way that was very painful, and, sad.    In the story he disobeys his mother, and hurts himself.  His mother forgives him and he grows up to be a very happy and grateful Grandpa Hill with teeth.

    Credits:

    Produced by David Richman,
    Executively Produced and Recorded by Grandpa Hill

    Music: Michael Steele
    Art: Amy Steele
    Grandchildren in Audience: Kyla, Lawrence, Eddie, and Levi

  • Lost With The Kitties

    Lost With The Kitties

    In this Grandpa Hill Slightly Wiser True Story, Grandpa loses a child at the Columbus Ohio City Zoo.  Grandpa Hill had a system to make it easy for a lost child to find him.  He wears a yellow shirt. The yellow shirt system failed and Brian, the lost child, had an adventure while lost with the “kittys”.  To this day no one knows if Brian ever petted the “kitty”, with spots. It just so happened to be as tall as he was.  From Gorf and Marshmallow we learn that Grandpa Hill does improve the yellow shirt system. With his improvements he didn’t lose children very often after this incident.

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    Credits:

    Produced by David Richman
    Executively Produced by Grandpa Hill

    Gorf: Grandpa
    Marshmallow: David Richman
    Music: Michael Steele
    Art: Amy Steele
    Grandchildren in the audience: Joseph, Catherine, and Lizzy

  • First Time Trout Fishing

    First Time Trout Fishing

    In Trout Fishing for The First Time Grandpa Hill spends his last day of his first vacation away from home trout fishing.  Way back in the 1970’s Grandpa Hill fished at a pond in Northport Michigan.  The pond was completely full of brook trout!  More trout than Grandpa had ever seen all in one place ever before and ever since. 

    The pond is not very easy to fish in, so he has to overcome trees and weeds, and learn to cast sideways.  At the end of his successful fishing trip his stringer was full, yet at the end of the day his belly was empty.  Because the fish were all gone.

    Marshmallow explains to Gorf how this was a story about growing-up. Grandpa didn’t get something he really had looked forward to – delicious brook trout, and that was okay.

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    Credits:

    Produced by David Richman
    Executively Produced by Grandpa Hill

    Gorf: Grandpa
    Marshmallow: David R.
    Art: Amy Steele
    Music: David R.
    Grandchildren in the audience: Caleb, Corbin, and Walter

  • Lots of Bunnies

    Lots of Bunnies

    Hide in seek is a very fun game, which everyone loves to play. Hide the bunny is also a very fun game, except when it is not.

    In Lots of Bunnies Grandpa Hill tells the true story, as best he can recall, how a bunny died because it could not breathe.  A few days later a little girl lived because Gerry, Grandpa’s brother, kept her from hiding in a refrigerator where she wouldn’t have been able to breathe.

    Gorf is sad about the bunny.  Marshmallow gets Gorf to see how important it was for Gerry to learn this lesson:  Air is needed to breathe.  Never hide yourself or anything living where it can’t breathe.

    Credits:

    Produced by David Richman,
    Executively Produced by Grandpa Hill

    Grandchildren in the audience: Breandan

    Music: Michael Steele

    Art: Amy Steele

  • Sledding in the Summer?

    Sledding in the Summer?

    Can Grandpa really go sledding in the summer? According to his true story he sure can. Listen as he relates what fun he had with his family sledding on the hills at his Grandma and Grandpa’s place near Northport Michigan in the early 1960’s, IN THE SUMMER!

    Gorf doesn’t want to go sledding until he hears Grandpa’s story. Then when he wants to go sledding, he is reminded by Marshmallow that he must take care of his cardboard box, like Grandpa did. This will assure them summer sledding fun each and every year for Gorf, Marshmallow, and all of Grandpa Hills 22 grandchildren.

    SummerSledding.mp3Download

    Credits:

    Produced by David Richman,
    Executively Produced by Grandpa Hill

    Gorf: Grandpa,
    Marshmallow: David Richman,
    Music: Michael Steele,
    Cover Art: An old Brownie in the 60’s.
    Grandchildren in the audience: Annette, Breandan, and Eoghan.

  • We Made Lake Livernois!

    We Made Lake Livernois!

    Grandpa Hill tells the story of Lake Livernois to three of his 22 grandchildren.  Grandpa and his brother Gerry make a lake! The story recounts how his seemingly harmless excitement at dam building, had a sobering not-to-be-repeated impact on his neighbors.  A police car, fire truck,  and a dump truck all come to make things right.  Through this exciting adventure Grandpa learned to consider the harm his actions may have on others.

    LakeLivernois.mp3Download

    Credits:

    Gorf: Grandpa.
    Marshmallow: David Richman.
    Music: Michael Steele.
    Art: Amy Steele
    Grandchildren in the audience: Caleb, Corbin and Walter.

  • Pebbles and Blood

    Pebbles and Blood

    Some fun isn’t worth the price. As well as he can remember Grandpa tells this personal experience story of his first bike wreck of his childhood. He learned about listening to his mom, wearing his shirt and shoes when pedaling, using the right sized bike, and restitution.

    Credits:

    Produced by David Richman
    Executively Produced by Grandpa Hill

    Gorf: Grandpa
    Marshmallow: David Richman
    Art: David R.