When I was in grade school—around the sixth grade, I think—I had a class assignment to write a celebrity.
I chose Kenny Rogers.
Several weeks later, the Kenny Rogers fan club wrote me back and sent me an autographed picture of “The Gambler” himself.
The picture has been in my scrapbook for years, and every now and then, I’ll find it again. I have grown rather fond of the picture because it is something different and reminds me of a day when getting up for school was accompanied by the music on WESC 92.5 in Greenville, SC .
I think one day I might frame it and hang it in my office as a conversational piece.