Your Hometown Meteorologist Paul Poteet spoke to classes at Pendleton Intermediate Elementary School last week.
Mister Weatherman was part of career day presentations on May 1. He spoke of his childhood interest in radio and weather, which ended up expanding to television. (And newspapers, eventually!)
Poteet’s grandson Hunter is a fourth grader at the school. His class put on a “Famous Hoosier Wax Museum” the next day. Students picked personalities with an Indiana connection and used props, clothes, and a prepared speech to bring the character to life when visitors approached. Hunter’s pick was Papa Poteet. The real thing showed up, also with a shirt and tie.
A legend in his own mind.