1998

Now, I think 1998 was a very busy year, when it was 1998 I'm not sure I did. Some things worked very well, and something was deteriorating.
 Hollies relationships with her parents was turning ugly. She had become combative and would hit. Already at 14 she was over five feet four inches, and strong. The next couple of years would prove to be a test of wills.
 On the light side Jon and I were able to spend three days on the road at the Baseball Hall of Fame, in New York State and at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. Cooperstown is a great place to visit. It's a small town with at least two large museums, the Hall of Fame and an Agricultural Museum, this one I'd seen before and didn't visit this time. While we were there, HOF, they had a special exhibit of the old Women's League - very interesting players and stats. On the way home we stopped in Springfield for basketball. This was the 'old' Hall which was much smaller than the current one, but it was a great place with a lot to see.
  Hollie, on her good days, was still the same girl she'd always been, it was the in between days that were bad. She got to visit the Commissioner of the Bureau of Mental Health Services and by chance the Governor, Angus King. She liked his phone, it was a miniature Harley-Davidson, that she knew he had. He did let her use his phone, and was very hospitable for Hollie and her mother.
 There were some things at work that weren't going as I would have liked, new management had changed the way some things worked (I didn't think it was done for the better - my opinion only), but we were working right along bringing in the money to run the place.
Another grandchild, Stuart, was born in October, he is Rhondas' second so Nick became a big brother, who was proud of being just that. Everyone was healthy and happy down there in Florida.


Jon at the Baseball Hall of Fame



 

Hollie with Governor Angus King



Hollie holding Stuart