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A Special Axes & Alleys Goodbye.

We’ve been producing this magazine for 103 years now. If we still had our original staff our offices would be full of putrid, rotting corpses. Unfortunately, dead people just can’t bring you the best in tractor repair and maintenance information month after month. So indeed, after ten decades we’ve had quite a few staff changes. As this is the first issue of Volume 456-BR8, we thought we’d take a moment to say goodbye to some of our staff members who have moved on in the past year.

David Aroumond
Always a crowd favorite, Dave has worked on the Axes & Alleys team since his release from prison in 1987. In late 2005 he was incarcerated again, this time for a parole violation. Perhaps we’ll hear from Dave again, if he manages to behave himself.

H.G. Peterson
The first poem by master H.G. Peterson to appear in Axes & Alleys was the now-famous “An Ode to Jellyfish,” which appeared in our Springtober 1948 issue. While Mr. Peterson has retired from writing, he continues to work in film, recently directing A Tawdry Lemon in the Park.

Marcia Spatzelberg
Lovely Marcia took over the feature “How to Do It” after LeMuel LeBratt went into semi-retirement in 1996. After writing over 100 columns, Ms. Spatzelberg left Axes & Alleys in 2005 to star with Nicholas Brendon and Amy Acker in the NBC drama Law and Order: Vampire Investigation Unit.

Dr. Scott Birdseye
Eminent scholar and historian Dr. Birdseye began writing for Axes & Alleys in 1936. After mailing in his last history essay, Dr. Birdseye ventured into the jungles of Guatemala while searching for the Treasure of Piso Del Grande. He has not been heard from since and his whereabouts are unknown.

We’ll miss these guys, but rest assured tractor aficionados, Axes & Alleys has lots of exciting stuff in store for the future.

This Month’s Cover Girl:
Elizabeth “Liz” Phair.