Re: What's with New Yorkers?
JoC: We know the purple house in Gardiner well; it was--and may still be--owned by an acquaintance of ours. In fact, we once had dinner there, having bid on it as part of a fundraiser for the Gardiner Library, which I've been very involved with in fundraising and other activities over the years. Not familiar, though, with the cajun dance at the library. Do you mean the Gardiner Library or Elting Memorial Library in New Paltz (which also has fundraisers which I'm also involved with)?
There is indeed a Mid-Hudson Valley Club which we attended a meeting of in March in Pimlico Rec Center; they meet only bimonthly, and when we went, we met people who had for decades worked closely with good friends of ours (now retired teachers from the Wallkill School District). We will certainly be attending again when we snowbirds return for the late fall, winter, and early spring.
The first week we were in our Villages home in Belvedere, there was a knock on the door and a man called in, 'Did you bring any apples from Wright's?' which is one of our local orchards in Gardiner. Turned out to be a neighbor behind us who also retired to TV from Rhinebeck and who, after his retirement from his lifetime career, took a job driving the sports buses for Rhinebeck School District and so knew Gardiner well. Another of our neighbors two houses from us in TV (close friends of ours since 1964!) had mentioned to him where we had moved from.
Definitely a small world!
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