Potato Creek Cabins: Give Yourself to the Weekend

There once was a laureate stressed,

The rhymes wouldn't come, he confessed.

Then he heard what Dave said

And he cleared his old head!

"Give yourself to the weekend." Hell yes!!

Every fall, since 1988, my parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other random guests over the years have spent the weekend in the cabins at Potato Creek State Park in North Liberty IN, outside of South Bend. Over the next few episodes, you’ll hear my family share memories about a very special family tradition that we have, Potato Creek Cabins Weekend. 

This first episode about Potato Creek, doesn’t really have any specific wild stories.  Instead I wanted to set the scene and provide some perspective to our listeners of how far back this tradition goes so you’ll hear some of our memories as children.  You’ll also get a glimpse of how our Potato Creek role models (our fathers and uncles) planted a Potato Creek seed into my generation of family members and then in future episodes you’ll see how that seed grew beyond anything they could have ever imagined. 

Over the 33 years that we’ve been going to the cabins, we have amassed quite the collection of crazy stories and memorable moments.  Over the next few episodes, my extended family and I share some of these with you.  This is not the history of my family at the cabins, it's not in chronological order, I basically just wanted to record some of our stories that are now infamous in Potato Creek lore. 

If you know my extended family, you’ll agree that we are seriously some of the most kind hearted people that you’ll ever meet.  You walk away knowing that you just spent time with genuinely great people.  Also if you’ve spent some time with us together, after picking your jaw up off of the ground, you may walk away with hearing loss and a new appreciation for peace and quiet.  Because we are loud, we like to have fun, but most importantly we LOVE spending Potato Creek Weekend together.  

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