Underneath a picture of Martin Taggert’s face could easily be the caption “Codger.”
A beard that looks like the ashen remnants of a roadside brushfire, blood vessels on his cheeks that look like upside down crimson and purple lightning, and one canine tooth so gray it looks like it was made out of steel.
Martin has stories.
He knows the history of Caldora, Michigan better than anyone, and embellishes that history so vividly Hemingway would have genuflected.
Martin was the only choice to drive the complimentary tourist trolley in Caldora, brought to you by your friends at Apex Auto Sales, Samantha’s Cheesecakes and the Caldora Chamber of Commerce.
Martin can sing.
Martin can only sing when he’s drunk.
He had a chest cold the day of his grade school choir recital, so his devoted mother whipped him up a Hot Toddy, and birthed (for the second time) the father of all drunken nightingales.
On the Caldora Choo-Choo-a customized Cushman towing two eight person cars bought from a defunct independent zoo- Martin enthralls locals and tourists with tales from rock solid fact to wild flights of Martin’s own boozy mind.
-Caldora was the first town in Michigan to elect a mayor who had done a combat tour in Vietnam
-Kitty Waylet’s silo was burned down by the tiny alien that took up residence there after crashing his spaceship in Petunia Pond.
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