Back story: Harry & MaryAnn Wainwright and Bill & Marianna Bailey moved into adjacent homes in Asheville back in the twentieth century. Harry was the last survivor of these dynamic duos. Marianna died in 2020, Bill in 2017, & MaryAnn in 2015. The Baileys had moved to Deerfield, while the Wainwrights moved to Ardenwoods.
Earlier I squoze into the jumpseat of the Fishels' truck to ride from Lake Junaluska to Deerfield to enjoy lunch with these six old colleagues.
And I enjoyed cohosting the Springboard III gathering at the Lake in late 2007, including the Wainwrights, Baileys, Crockers, Grows, Gilles, Walters, Stovers, Binghams, Cocks, McCleskey, Gordon Harper, George West, David Scott, Jean Long, and Herman Greene, among 40 colleagues (some of whom are have faded from my failing memory).
There are a few of us still on the Long March here on Earth.
The rest have ascended.
Marshall
