a small series of random events

In October of 2010, during our annual Cape Cod vacation in Wellfleet, Susan and I took a drive south one day to do some sightseeing and paid another visit to the Yellow Umbrella Bookstore in Chatham.

I didn’t find any used books I wanted, but did pick up a copy of David McCullough’s "The Great Bridge," which is his wonderfully told history of the epic building of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The following day, we decided to drive around a little before dusk, so I could take some photographs. We wandered down Lieutenant Island Road, and out to the island itself where I got some very nice shots of the sunset.

A day later, I was finishing up reading another excellent book, this one titled "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition," by Daniel Okrent. (Not a bad title for a book to read while imbibing in adult beverages and lazing away days by the ocean, I might add?)

So I am reading the acknowledgements, and in the 3^rd paragraph Okrent describes meeting Ken Burns while strolling across the Brooklyn Bridge one day. It was a "Hmm" moment, but nothing exceptionally odd.

I finished the acknowledgements and remarked to Susan regarding the Brooklyn Bridge thing, and the fact that at the end of his acknowledgements Okrent wrote:

                                      

D.O.

Wellfleet, Massachusetts

August 2009

Susan says, "You should look up his address in the phone book?"

I said, "I would have to think he’s unlisted," but indeed he was listed in the local phone book.

Lt. Island Road, October 2010

Daniel Okrent lives on Lieutenant Island.

David McCullough lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, where Susan and I both grew up.

One of my oldest and closest friends (Carl Goldman) went to college with Ken Burns at Hampshire College.

Just a small series of random events.