That Was Then This is Now
While everyone in Floyd was jubileeing to the town’s second annual Jubilee celebration, reading poetry at the third Saturday Spoken Word Open Mic, celebrating The Floyd Country Store’s 100 year anniversary or the Dogtgown Pizza Roadhouse’s Grand Opening, I was crashing a party for the class of 1967 (the class above mine with all the cutest boys in it) at Jo’s Nautical Bar in my hometown of Hull. There were pirate (our school mascot) hats and eye patches to wear, cake to eat, beer to drink, and time to reminisce with old friends, like my friend Jackie (to my left) who I went to my first prom with and marched in the CYO drill team and drum choir with.
While everyone in Floyd was flat footing at the Jamboree, taking in Irish music at Oddfella’s Cantina, eating Italian at Mickey G’s, or something Asian at Natasha’s, I was sipping the creamy head off my brother-in-law’s Guinness, sampling my first Nantuket blueberry beer, filling up on shepherd’s pie, and stomping to the jamming jigs of some New England playing fiddles and flutes at The Snug Irish Pub in Hingham.
Watch the video HERE.
June 22nd, 2010 6:24 am
There is no keeping you quiet, is there?
June 22nd, 2010 6:58 am
Even tho you sound like you are having fun, I can read ‘homesick’ between the lines.
June 22nd, 2010 7:19 am
Did you see the blueberries floating in the beer?!
June 22nd, 2010 8:33 am
I am enjoying your blog. Very inspiring. Will be joining the Floyd community very soon. Nice to read such beautiful words about it. Nice to meet you!
June 22nd, 2010 9:41 am
Hi hari, Niceto “meet” you too. Make sure to introduc yourself to me when you get to Floyd.
June 22nd, 2010 11:33 am
i miss you here and i miss being with you , Nelson and Sherry for the irish jam.
thanx for the video.
post one soon with herself it it will ye?
June 22nd, 2010 11:50 am
I really enjoyed reading the Blog — Nantucket, the beer, the friends – it’s all so wonderful! Life is grand and life needs celebration! I am in Louisa, VA on our farm Ravenwood … here are my celebratory musings__
Summertime at Ravenwood
Morning sleeps in green and golden
As light rides ribbons of sparkle
Over my face
I awaken to a new day while
Green-blue fields and midnight ravens
Paint pictures of summertime ease
Upon the landscape
Yet, somewhere there is another world
And children dance and eat their bread
And drink their butter-rum
The music is substantial in these ancestral taverns
But here __ at Ravenwood
One must hold on to dreams and hope
In the midst of a stormy sea
For this ship is tracking into the wind
And this Captain deals the deck
With a strong hand __ Aces high
And Kings and Queens
And the Jack of Hearts navigating
With Precision and a true aim
Never missing the mark
Always tracking forward
Into the blue horizon heralding
A Victory Flag
Racing into destiny and life
And the Gusto and all!
June 22nd, 2010 8:43 pm
Lezlie, You need a blog!
June 23rd, 2010 8:01 pm
WOW! Blueberry Beer. I had no idea you could do that….! It looks and sounds like everyone was having a good old time, Colleen….And you look about 15 years younger than all those other people….lol….That is a very Good Looking man standing next to you! I bet he was pretty cute ‘back-in-the-day’.
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