From Minnesota to Gloucester
Joey
Hello from Stillwater, Minnesota. My daughter attended Emerson College in Boston, and when I visited her and rented a home on Salt Island Road in Gloucester, I fell in love with your city. She graduated in 2009, but ever since that first trip in 2005, I have rented the house for one week every year. December 11 to 19 is my week for this year, and I am very excited.
I follow GMG every day and vicariously pretend that I am truly a "resident" and know all the people in the stories and photos. I am a writer (mostly about cancer care) and would like to visit the Writer’s Center when I am there. After years of writing non-fiction, I am finally at work on a novel …. and its setting is …. Gloucester.
I was especially touched by your story commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the loss of the Starbound. When I saw the photo of the freighter that hit them, my heart sank. I have watched these ships come into the harbor in Duluth, MN, from across the Great Lakes and cannot imagine seeing one of them coming toward me. My grandfather was a fisherman in Sweden and Finland before emigrating to America. I am drawn to these stories.
I was also touched when you paid homage to the folks at the facility where your Dad is living. I lost my mom to Alzheimers after she lived for 9 years in just such a place. I know how difficult it is.
Thanks for indulging my babbling, and I hope to meet you when I am there. Would it be terribly brash to stop in and spend some time at your Christmas party on Saturday night? For one night, I could pretend to be "one of you."
Warm regards,
Linda Klein, Town Clerk
May Township
Joey writes:
Linda of course you are invited to come hang with us. Any FOB is and from what you’ve written you sure as hell qualify as a FOB!
Good Morning Gloucester 