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Jim Benelli's "Spaghetti Farming" on Valley Writers Read

KVPR | By Franz Weinschenk
Published October 20, 2021 at 12:39 PM PDT

On this week's edition of Valley Writers Read, Jim Benelli brings us a story called, "Spaghetti Farming in Kansas".

This story is a satire about a man named J. Nicholas Worthmore, who is one of the richest financiers in the country.
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Franz Weinschenk
Franz Weinschenk, his parents and his older brother Fritz were indeed lucky to get out of Germany just before World War II. For a while they lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Madera, CA. He graduated from Madera High and Fresno State. From 1948 to 1952 he taught at Edison High School in Fresno after which he was drafted and served in the US Army for two years.
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