Mary McCaslin died earlier this month (nytimes./music/mary-mccaslin). Mary McCaslin wrote and sang a number of songs that always stuck with me - enough so that I could sing them through myself years after. Prairie in the Sky still resonates. I believe Mary and I shared a similar romantic view of the West. In elementary school I would always pick 'Home on the Range' whenever it was my turn to pick a song. Prairie in the Sky better captures that childhood longing to be out on the open range and essentially replaced that older song in my music list.
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Me too! Very nice, thanks.
RIP Mary McCaslin. Greetings Dan. I've been enjoying retirement since December. Spending time gardening, watching baseball at Nelsons and sailing the San Juan and Gulf Islands (geo-reference books in hand). We plan to make the "big left turn" next summer. I ran into Nick Zentner (Nick on the Rocks) recently at a WWU/CWU volleyball game. Best to you.
Unknown: I do miss Nelsons as I am not in Bham as much. Hope you have Ned Brown's San Juan Geology book.
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