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Heavenly music!
Our last Carnegie Hall outing took some doing: Our neighbor Joe helped us get started in Denville, Rob awaited us at the 7th Avenue garage and got us into the Carnegie lobby, an unknown bystander helped us back into the car after the concert, and Maja roused herself after midnight to help us from the car into the house.
What teamwork! But Peter got to hear Evgeny Kissin, his favorite pianist, play for him one last time, on 4/25/19.
One of Peter’s abiding memories was of his happiness at having been “Daddy” to three little boys.
That same paternal tenderness is evident here, as he works with then-young Ben Goldthwaite to fashion a proper rope ladder for the tree outside the Baddeck boathouse on 6/28/06.
“The great secret of death, and perhaps its deeper connection with us, is this: that, in taking from us a being we have loved and venerated, death does not wound us without, at the same time, lifting us toward a more perfect understanding of this being and of ourselves.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
What a wonderful addition you were to our family. The joy and love you brought to my grandmother was so evident. With feeling the ache of loss of my grandfather, even years after, when you came into our lives, it was hard to accept; but over the years I have grown an immense love and respect for you. While I am sad you have left us, I am so grateful you are out of pain. I hope you are sailing the heavenly equivalent of Phalarope somewhere in whatever afterlife you have found.
With all of my love,
Angelia
Some of the bergy bits we encountered in the Strait of Belle Isle between Labrador and Newfoundland included striations of beautiful blue glacier ice.
(Local folks call them “bergy bits” if they’re smaller than Titanic-killers, but bigger than a house; if they’re car-size, they’re called “growlers.”) 7/27/2007
Red Bay, Labrador was memorable to us as the site of the first industrial operation in North America in the 1500s ~ and as the home of voracious black flies that sought to feast on our blood.
Peter fended them off with this net head covering, readily available at the Red Bay General Store, 7/26/2007
Since his teen-age days Peter cherished his inclusion in Cynthia’s expansive and generous family. Throughout his life he happily participated in Greenclan gatherings such as this “welcome Spring” party at the home of Cynthia’s brother Winslow in Bolton, MA, 4/19/2016.
Too many attendees to name here, but can you find Peter in the photo?
Another “family” with which Peter maintained a life-long connection was his classmates from the Westfield High School Class of ’49.
Thanks to the generosity of Jack and Fran Mullen, those living in the area gathered for annual “mini-reunions” in Spring Lake, NJ, as here on 7/9/2016.
We loved the beautiful lupines that grew all over Cape Breton Island and Newfoundland, especially here in the misty Newfoundland outport of Grand Bruit (so named for the "big noise" made by the waterfall in the middle of the little town).
Can you find Phalarope in this photo?
Believe it or not, the most challenging sea conditions we encountered in all our Phalarope travels were on Lake Michigan, followed closely by the seas in the Belle Isle Strait off Labrador and near Sable Island off Nova Scotia.
Thanks to Peter's superb seamanship we managed to make our way into the narrow channel that brought us to safety in South Haven, Michigan, 9/16/2010.