Subject: Re: crumbs!
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 12:00:37 EST
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 06:52:03AM +0000, Scottie Bowman wrote:
> None of this was surprising. What was surprising was to learn
> that our leader - usually so sniffy about groupies trailing out
> to Cornish - was himself on at least one occasion to be found
> there too (autograph book at the ready?) It must have been
> in his younger days.
Younger days, yes, but no possession of an autograph book. (I wouldn't
even know where to find one.) I lived in New Hampshire for four years
and spent quite a lot of time around Cornish, Windsor, Hanover, and
other nearby towns. I could never bring myself to climb That Hill and
knock on the door. Too intrusive for me, and after getting through the
barbed wire and guard dogs and snipers, what does one say, anyway?
(That is a question I've ALWAYS had, when people talk about meeting or
trying to meet someone they admire.)
Ah, yes, and the covered bridge there, another favorite spot. I once
stood there, entranced, watching beavers at work in the Connecticut
River below. (As a city boy, I had never seen such a hypnotic sight.
I've never seen people put together so much as a plastic chair without
bickering just a little bit about it.)
--tim (who has also shamefacedly retraced Hemingway's haunts in
Paris, seeking what? A hearty ghost, perhaps.)
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