Well, things have been going great since getting home (and surviving) deepest, darkest, Africa. We came home to a Reimer family reunion in Eliot, Maine where Gloria's mother lives. The Reimers were having an annual celebration of her father's contributions to the Green Acre Bahai School where he worked for many years.
We then managed to take Gloria's 89 year old mother Janet Reimer on a 3 state tour of northern New England, starting with the beautiful Maine coast at Boothbay Harbor north of Portland. From there we headed west across New Hampshire to Vermont's capital of Montpelier and a tour of the state capitol building, followed by a wonderful and caloric visit to Ben and Jerry's in Waterbury. We visited Middlebury where we played golf again in the early morning hours, just at the time when the black flies and mosquitoes were at their worst -- they're especially heavy this year due to lots of rain.
Next it was south to Keene, New Hampshire, where we lived from 1976-9 and where Doug was born, and Bretwood Golf Course. We had a great visit with Gary and Jane Shapiro in their beautiful old restored farmhouse. They took us kayaking and exploring Keene. Golf was warm but fun, though we didn't play very well. We also had trouble at our next stop in Williamstown, Massachusetts where we tried to get on at the hoity-toity Taconic Golf Course but were thrown out on our ears (we asked for a discount), but had a great time at Waubeka, a public course where the folks were super friendly. We toured the Clark art museum, then drove south to see the Norman Rockwell museum with lots of old Saturday Evening Post covers he designed. What a great old artist/illustrator.
Gloria convinced me to alter our course and go to the Woodstock Museum in Bethel, New York and we had a wonderful time there reliving our past in the 1960's. It's not true that if you remember the 60's you didn' t live it. We did and we remembered thanks to this great museum with lots of music, great dioramas and descriptions of that incredible three day weekend back in 1969 on Max Yasgur's farm. The whole experience was great and we give it our highest vote of all the museums we have seen, with Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama second.
Finally we came back to Cooperstown where Ryan was born and I did my internship. To our surprise, I was paired with someone I knew, Dr. David Vaules and his wife. He was an attending cardiologist when I interned, so I had to be on my best behavior which I did and played the best so far next to St. Francisvile, Louisiana. We also had a wonderful dinner with Dr. John and Amanda May. John interned with me and actually delivered Ryan! (He had forgotten) Cooperstown was great, including the Baseball Hall of Fame.
We will be visiting Lucille Ball's museum in Jamestown, New York tomorrow, than on to the midwest and Ohio. We're making good progress, everything is going great, and we look forward to seeing our good friends John and Edie Corbly in Champaign, Illinois during the Labor Day weekend.
We then managed to take Gloria's 89 year old mother Janet Reimer on a 3 state tour of northern New England, starting with the beautiful Maine coast at Boothbay Harbor north of Portland. From there we headed west across New Hampshire to Vermont's capital of Montpelier and a tour of the state capitol building, followed by a wonderful and caloric visit to Ben and Jerry's in Waterbury. We visited Middlebury where we played golf again in the early morning hours, just at the time when the black flies and mosquitoes were at their worst -- they're especially heavy this year due to lots of rain.
Next it was south to Keene, New Hampshire, where we lived from 1976-9 and where Doug was born, and Bretwood Golf Course. We had a great visit with Gary and Jane Shapiro in their beautiful old restored farmhouse. They took us kayaking and exploring Keene. Golf was warm but fun, though we didn't play very well. We also had trouble at our next stop in Williamstown, Massachusetts where we tried to get on at the hoity-toity Taconic Golf Course but were thrown out on our ears (we asked for a discount), but had a great time at Waubeka, a public course where the folks were super friendly. We toured the Clark art museum, then drove south to see the Norman Rockwell museum with lots of old Saturday Evening Post covers he designed. What a great old artist/illustrator.
Gloria convinced me to alter our course and go to the Woodstock Museum in Bethel, New York and we had a wonderful time there reliving our past in the 1960's. It's not true that if you remember the 60's you didn' t live it. We did and we remembered thanks to this great museum with lots of music, great dioramas and descriptions of that incredible three day weekend back in 1969 on Max Yasgur's farm. The whole experience was great and we give it our highest vote of all the museums we have seen, with Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama second.
Finally we came back to Cooperstown where Ryan was born and I did my internship. To our surprise, I was paired with someone I knew, Dr. David Vaules and his wife. He was an attending cardiologist when I interned, so I had to be on my best behavior which I did and played the best so far next to St. Francisvile, Louisiana. We also had a wonderful dinner with Dr. John and Amanda May. John interned with me and actually delivered Ryan! (He had forgotten) Cooperstown was great, including the Baseball Hall of Fame.
We will be visiting Lucille Ball's museum in Jamestown, New York tomorrow, than on to the midwest and Ohio. We're making good progress, everything is going great, and we look forward to seeing our good friends John and Edie Corbly in Champaign, Illinois during the Labor Day weekend.
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