Renewing Old Acquaintances

[Laurie Verge]

I love that motto, Herb! I'm going to hang it on my office wall.

[Jim Page]

RE: Crossing the Potomac

Since the early 1990s, a group of my acoustic-guitar playing pals from all over-- about 125 of us nowadays from as far away as California and even Germany--spend a long April weekend at Westmoreland State Park, in the Northern neck of Virginia. We take over the entire park, cabins, campground and the pavilion and lodge. We concentrate our activities at the lodge, which sleeps 15 or so and has a spacious deck on the Potomac. I've sat there many an hour looking across that very wide river and wondering how anyone could cross it in an unmotorized boat.

Many times it's foggy and you can't see the other shore.

It honestly looks more like a sea shore than a river's edge, and, being from Amelia Island, Florida, and having lived in on the Atlantic or Gulf Coast most of my life, I have a good idea of what a sea shore looks like!

--Jim