Another American Adventure: 40th wedding anniversary

Saturday, April 27, 2013

40th wedding anniversary

We were just children way back when we married, and somehow had our 40th wedding anniversary today. A glorious day ... went to Jimmy Wan's for dinner ... wish I had a photo from 40 years ago to add to this.

2 comments:

BarbaraApril 28, 2013 at 1:52 PM
Congratulations. That is a landmark, certainly. [I would have been married 43 years.]
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beth cioffolettiMay 3, 2013 at 11:34 AM
Thanks Barbara. 40 years seems like a long time ...
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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.