EUGENE DRAKE SNR. - MY SIDE OF THE STORY (PART ONE) Eugene Drake was born in a dirty Lab on County Highway BB in 1954. His mother was Mrs. Ovaltine Drake, the illegitimate daughter - accorfing to Janesville folklore - of Eugene Baxter Snr., the great English scientist. Whatever the truth in the rumours (Ovaltine’s mother remained silent on the matter until her death in 1985), Harvester Drake - Ovaltine’s husband - became obsessed with the idea that he was somehow marrying into the English nobility.  Harvester welcomed the raggedy girl into his life with a fervour, and waited until her fifteenth birthday in 1945 before marrying her. Then he began to build his own makeshift Lab in the outhouse of their shack on County Highway BB. Harvester worked so hard on his little Lab that it was nine years before their first child was born, Harvester insisted on naming the boy Eugene, after Ovaltine’s alleged father. Ovaltine was irreparably humiliated by this, and her work at Walmart suffered considerably. Harvester and Ovaltine lived miserably together in their shack and Lab on County Highway BB, and Eugene grew up to be a hick. I met Eugene in 1974 in a Janesville strip club after my first divorce. He treated me like dirt but that’s what I was looking for that night I guess. I was going through a rough patch anyway. One night out at a strip club with Eugene led to another, and after our second date I moved into his father’s Lab on County Highway BB and brought with me my dogs (for testing) and my 4 year-old daughter Fortuna.

EUGENE DRAKE SNR.

- MY SIDE OF THE STORY (PART ONE)

Eugene Drake was born in a dirty Lab on County Highway BB in 1954. His mother was Mrs. Ovaltine Drake, the illegitimate daughter - accorfing to Janesville folklore - of Eugene Baxter Snr., the great English scientist.

Whatever the truth in the rumours (Ovaltine’s mother remained silent on the matter until her death in 1985), Harvester Drake - Ovaltine’s husband - became obsessed with the idea that he was somehow marrying into the English nobility.  Harvester welcomed the raggedy girl into his life with a fervour, and waited until her fifteenth birthday in 1945 before marrying her. Then he began to build his own makeshift Lab in the outhouse of their shack on County Highway BB.

Harvester worked so hard on his little Lab that it was nine years before their first child was born, Harvester insisted on naming the boy Eugene, after Ovaltine’s alleged father. Ovaltine was irreparably humiliated by this, and her work at Walmart suffered considerably.

Harvester and Ovaltine lived miserably together in their shack and Lab on County Highway BB, and Eugene grew up to be a hick.

I met Eugene in 1974 in a Janesville strip club after my first divorce. He treated me like dirt but that’s what I was looking for that night I guess. I was going through a rough patch anyway.

One night out at a strip club with Eugene led to another, and after our second date I moved into his father’s Lab on County Highway BB and brought with me my dogs (for testing) and my 4 year-old daughter Fortuna.