BLAST FROM THE PAST
Interesting email received this week...



...from a former Ann Arborite who grew up playing hockey with brothers Paul and Martin, did some sailing at Portage Lake, and even crewed for me in a regatta or two along the way. What's it been, 25 years since we last saw "Robbie"?

Hello Tom, Robert Weymouth here reading up Boats, etc. looked you up an there you are, with the whole story. Fascinating. As far as being up to speed I am in Mexico City and have done picture framing here for about 12 years. Before that lived in England (6 months) Italy (Florence mostly) for one year. This was after finishing school at Michigan State, BA English, High Honors. Neat seeing Meg’s interest in poetry. At Michigan State studied under Diane Wakoski and for the most focused on the Whitman tradition in 20th cent. American Poetry. Wakoski focuses on that getting to Ginsburg and the resurgence of Whitman’s influences there-which really gets to a base for the strongest currents in US poetry. Wakoski uses Greek myth divided into the “Apollonian” and the “Dionysian” to teach, separating the bacchanalian, gods of wine and earth, reproductive cycles and sex, from the Apollonian: governments, architecture, structure, form.

Also liked seeing Paul there with fish and kids, Leslie, Michigan Moments (HEY PAUL!).
Was in Mi. in June, Dad had Mitral Valve surgery and they stumbled on an aortic aneurysm so they put in a new section of (5cm) the aorta. He is doing fine. Mom’s in Tenn. though thinking of moving. Sara can be caught up with at www.saraandjoe.com. Joe is a programmer and has www.lastminutegolfer.com Sara truly excels at her profession as a figure skating pro and works too with underprivileged kids, involving them in skating and quality instruction. Mike has Treetown in A2 and is one of the best there is at tree trimming and removal. Anyhow just wanted to say hello, ci vediamio dopo-amigo. Check out www.artmobile.us

Great to hear from you, Rob! Keep us posted, and will look you up if we ever get to Mexico City. Hope you don't mind I plucked that picture of you off your website -- wish I had time to dig through the old photo books to see if we have one of you from 30 years ago.

Un abrazo amigo mio!