Buckeye The Elder

October, 1994

University of IowaA Traveling Salesman Came into our Lives and The Entire Family Fell in Love. But nothing is as simple as it seemsThings I Learned about Buckeye a few minutes before he broke my collarbone: He is 25 years old, a native of Wisconsin and therefore a Badger. "Not really a Buckeye at all," he explained, sitting in my father's recliner and paging through a book about UFOs and other unsolved mysteries. "But I keep the name for respect of the man who gave it to me, my fa...