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| Green Mountains from the old Addison restaurant |
Looking back at photographs less than a decade old, I see people who have passed away, moved or just not out and about much.
The view in the photo (November 2004?) of the Green Mountains is from a diner along Route 7 in Vermont that changed hands many times. No longer an restaurant, used cars now fill the parking lot.
The flow of people in the old days, when the dinner was an extension of the community, felt like small festivals harvesting the news off the grapevines. Of the three places to eat in the area, all but one is closed. There are new places, but not replacements because when a layer of the community ages, it passes away. There's few old timers to sit around drinking coffee for an hour or two or to stop in after dinner for a coffee, apple crisp, and chat with folks.
Good reason to document photographs with names and dates. If I don't find out who is who in some of my pictures, then there may not be anyone around who remembers who they are. Sad to think, though, the best place to ask is the local funeral parlor.
Poet Whale Studio will be fading as I pick up the new blog Maywyn.
There is a way to redirect a blog to the new while leaving the old open to read. Once all is decided, then sometime in early November the final active days of this blog will be posted.
