I made a trip back to Baltimore last month to commemorate the 20th anniversary of meeting Dan. I recorded my memories of the experience in my Day One diary, and wanted to share some excerpts. October 21, 2013 at 12:00 PM Boulevard St, Point Marion, PA, United States 63° Sunny Tweets by @jeffcovey [12:00] Getting…
Traveling to Baltimore
October 24th would have been my 20th anniversary with my first partner, and I'm planning to make a sentimental journey and spend a day or two in Baltimore visiting our home and other places we shared together. If anyone from my Baltimore days will be around then and would like to get together, let me…
Coincidence
An excerpt from today’s diary entries: I went to the G2H2 party last night at Gordon’s amazing house, all vaulted ceilings, fireplaces, and massive exposed beams, like a National Park lodge. He and his partner ran it as a B&B for 15 years before getting tired of all the work it entailed. It was a…
The gray nun
In thinking of Dan this year, I recalled two of the nicknames he assigned, “snow goose” (when winter came, my nose would start running, and I was soon honking into handkerchiefs) and “the gray nun”. Dan was ordained as a priest around 1950. He loved it, and thrived in the work. He would never have…
Glenn Peters 11/17/1921 – 7/19/2011
Growing up Glenn grew up in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, the county seat of Centre County, a few miles from Penn State University. This is Pennsylvania Dutch country, and he grew up around people with names like "Hugg" and "Treaster". His eventual Mother-in-Law was Martha Zahniser, and he took great pride in joking that he was the…
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