[Magdalen] Shock in Situ.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Your experience encourages me to seek a look inside my childhood home, if
and when I ever go back there...

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On the same trip to my 40th class reunion, we also visited the house I
> spent most of my growing-up years in. We started out just to take some
> pictures of the outside when the occupant came out and asked us rather
> suspiciously why we were doing so. When I explained that I'd grown up in
> the house, he invited us in and gave us a tour and I told him some stories
> about it. The front bedroom, which in our time stretched all the way across
> the front of the house, had been subdivided and I was able to tell him that
> the wall was not load-bearing, which delighted him as they were considering
> tearing it out. He seemed to enjoy hearing stories of our childhood there,
> as he and his wife were raising a couple of little girls who were just
> slightly older than I was when we moved in.
>
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> >
> >  I pledged never again to walk into the family home in NW Wisconsin
> >> after it was sold in 1998.  From what I hear, that was a good  decision,
> >> for
> >> the home I knew is long since gone.
> >>
> >
> > We went to the 96th birthday party for the last living survivor of the
> > Knox Mining disaster in 1959 ( mining company owned by crooks was mining
> > under the Susquehanna River when they mined too close to the riverbed and
> > the min flooded -- killing 12. It took several days for the survivors to
> be
> > accounted for).
> >
> > In any case, the party was at his boyhood home --purchased by a nephew
> who
> > has restored it to  the way it looked when Bill was a boy -- complete
> with
> > a monitor-top refrigerator, an anthracite-burning Pittston stove and all
> > the furniture (new, not original)  (and the piano which is original))
> based
> > on family photos. No one lives in the house -- but it's definitely a
> museum
> > piece (Bill lives on the next block).
> >
> > I've visited the house in Lynbrook -- the owner showed us around inside
> --
> > I told him stories of this and that; he reached up to the rafters in the
> > furnace room and pulled down my fishing rod from when I was very young.
> We
> > had forgotten it when we moved in 1958, and the people who bought the
> house
> > had never noticed. The owner and I agreed that it should stay in rafters
> > (along with a few other rod and reels)  for the next owner, who might
> have
> > kids who like to fish.
> >
> >  I will admit the case is stunning, but we now have the "worship the
> >> organ"
> >> layout.
> >>
> >
> > As it should be universally so, according to some of the snootiest
> > organists I've known.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jim Guthrie
> >
> >
>