AFTER A YEAR OF FRIENDSHIP......THEN, SIX DECADES LATER........A BRIEF, NOSTALGIC RECONNECTION.....

I met Bernie Swanson in 1962, in Mrs. Gray's 12th Grade English Class, where we immediately became good friends, often cutting class and loafing in the balcony of HHS's Auditorium, chatting about poetry and music......Shortly before his death, I called him to 'catch up', since we'd not seen or heard from one another in so long.......We talked about Love and Death for a long time.....then....days later....he was kaput!