Notes from our far flung correspondents

We received a very nice note from Rick Boutcher who lives in Asingan in the Philippines.  He reports that it is about a 7 hour drive north of Manila and one of the few places left on earth where one can see the Milky Way. 
Rick is a retired physics professor and during his early years used to spend summers in Greenport.  He comes back on occasion and always visits. This is his wife, Priny, on a visit to the 67 steps on the sound.  He remembers when Main and the North Road's intersection was a round-about and I'm banking that he has a lot of other memories of the village from 60 years back and I've asked him to write to us on occasion and share them.

We were discussing memories just the other day. Events, days, gatherings etc., that took a long time to unfold are just snippets now, at best a glimpse but full of smells and sounds, the air on the skin so to speak but distilled or rendered down to an essence; a sauce in a pan reduced by 1/2.

We are of course pleased that he found us at http://www.greenportvillage.com/ and that he is writing us now and then.  We wish others would as well because it is a pleasant thought that when we scatter to the winds and find ourselves at nearly the other side of the world, the village will have a mystical draw on our senses.

Rick reports that his grandparents are buried in Stirling Cemetery having passed in the middle 60s. They lived on Carpenter Street, and we presume it was from there that he launched his summer adventures.  I'm certain we will hear more about all of this as he has promised to write and send pictures.

We will eagerly await them.