Katie and Christian have been here

Sunday afternoon at about 2:45, Katie and Christian arrived from Whitefield, NH, where Katie had been Maid of Honor in the wedding of her friend, Emily. She said it had been a beautiful wedding and all had gone well. We returned the car to Enterprise and later, back at the house, John and Cynthia joined us and stayed for for supper. We took full advantage of the three soups left over from Saturday night, supplemented by freshly-made borscht and gluten-free cornbread. Savanna was fresh in our minds, and Cynthia provided great entertainment finding and playing recordings of feminist bands Savanna played bass in back in the '70s when she was Pat Ouellette: The New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Band and the New Harmony Sisterhood Band based in Cambridge, where she and Katie met.

On Monday, Katie and Christian spent some time down at the West River in the middle of the day and J&C once again joined us for supper and this time we had a very interesting time first watching videos of an unusual old Finnish stringed instrument called a "jouhikko" like one Cynthia just acquired and then videos of an Eco Village called Dancing Rabbit in Rutledge, MO, up on the Iowa border about 3 hours north of St. Louis where K&C live. The DR website had extensive bio sketches of residents which were fascinating. It's a unique and very interesting place. Tuesday we took K&C back to Bradley Field for their flight home to St. louis, and got home in time to get to our River Singers rehearsal. By the time we got home, we were exhausted, but we still watched "Unforgotten" on PBS Masterpiece.