from The Anglican Digest, EASTER 2001
Ring out the old, ring in the new
Ring, happy bells, across the snow!
We began with what had to be the
last Evening
Prayer of the century in St. Mark's Chapel in the Twin Barns, and then
trooped outside to ring the bell. "Trooped" is the right word
because
we were joined by two daughters, two sons-in-law, two granddaughters
(one
very
pregnant), a grandson-in-law, our neighbors from across the road, our
neighbors
from behind the Calf Barn, the Burtons (more about them later), and
Godfrey
-- but no cats.
Each of us gave the bell two
sharp tugs
and then scattered to our various dwellings to join the cats which had
better sense than to go out in the snow in the first place.
About the Burtons, John Dryden
and Gloria
Jean: They will be living in the Old Residence as full-fledged
Hillspeakers.
John Dryden, a retired college professor with an interesting background
that includes a spate in rocketry, is joining the staff as managing
editor
of THE ANGLICAN DIGEST, and to
understudy Tom
Walker, our general manger and me. Gloria, a licensed social
worker,
will spend a few months rearranging and organizing the Old Residence to
her liking. Baby, a terrier mutt, will attempt to rearrange and
organize
Godfrey's lifestyle.
It is fortuitous and appropriate
that
we can welcome the Burtons to Hillspeak at the same time we welcome the
new century and millennium
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