Keith, did you not tell me once that you are from PA originally? SNPJ is HUGE up around the Great Lakes. We got that SNPJ newspaper at our house every month, and a quick search shows it is still being published. Man, THAT is a flashback right there!

My ancestry is from Ljubljana. My sibling and I were not permitted to speak Slovenian, or attempt to. We were told that we were born in Ohio and we were AMERICANS, and Americans spoke English, not Slovenian. My parents spoke fluent Slovenian and every time they did we knew it was about us. LOL! Cut my drinking teeth on Rolling Rock, and my music life started with polka and waltz because that's what little Slovenian boys did, play the accordion. That only lasted until the Beatles came around, but it was a good foundation to learn about rhythm and harmony. My first teacher was an old school German man who was strict in his musical discipline, and later in life I was grateful for everything I hated him for then!!