May 26 - Seeing Red


Overnight flight, and by the dawn's early (and premature, when heading west to east), it must be South Dakota and


Minnesota -- but hardly light,


unless one counts the artificial,


back on a smaller carrier over the Great Lakes and eventually touching down in


Boston,


picking


up


the rental car and


rendezvous'ing with Carol, who has had her own overnight adventures.


North out of the city,


we make our way to the Haverhill, on the Merrimack River


(lunch at 99 with a


Dunkin' Donuts desert),


and take a nostalgic tour


south on 125


to


Andover


and


Phillips


Academy,


recalling that year as a Teaching Fellow back in 1979-1980,


living part-time on the


Abbott Campus and


spending much time musically at Graves Hall,


which has received an impressive


interior re-modelling,


made poignant by the passing of old friends


Librarian Sally Warner and


Music Department Chairman William Thomas.



We tour the new (to us at least) Recital,


Ensemble, and


class rooms --


and


then head back towards accomodations,


with dinner at The Tap,


in view of moon and water, before a delightful retiring.


78 back home, on the 85th of summer, as opposed to the humid 87 of Boston / Andover / Haverhill....