June 2nd, 2014, our youngest, Sam, and Savannah Eccles got married in the LDS temple in Bountiful, Utah. Back in Massachusetts, David was recovering from pneumonia in the hospital, but Matt took the train from Chicago to Boston and brought David home. Annie flew to Utah from Beijing; she was on a summer study abroad in Tianjin, China. The wedding was lovely and some of us spent the time between the ceremony and the wedding dinner at Nielsen's Frozen Custard stand.
When we returned home June 3rd, David was in a good mood, though weakened by the pneumonia. He was chagrined when Matt beat him at the board game “Ticket to Ride”. His throat pain and nausea were gone: probably they were caused by the clinical trial drugs.
Spoleto USA 2017
For the second year Jim and I drove down to Charleston, South Carolina, to attend concerts at the Spoleto USA Music Festival and again we stayed with Jim’s sister Mary and her husband John. Mary showed us some of the impressive memoirs she has helped produce. We visited John’s lab and observed barnacle larvae under a microscope. They are crustaceans; I didn’t know that. John is the world’s expert on sea turtle barnacles and always cheerfully answers any questions we have about the natural world in all its complexity.
We immersed ourselves in five days of 17-day festival: Mahler’s 4th Symphony, Tschaikovsky’s opera, Eugene Onegin, string quartets and piano trios. The most unusual show was "While I Have the Floor", a tap dancing memoir by Ayodele Casel. Like her, Jim and I love Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; like her, we’ve watched Top Hat and Swing Time dozens of times. Here's a sample of her thought-provoking show.
For our 38th anniversary, we stayed overnight at a Motel 6 in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, on our drive back home, reminiscent of the years when staying at a cheap motel was a big step up from camping or sleeping on relatives’ floors.
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