Terry Cowgill

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1. Nice job.

   Comment by Doug Richardson — May 28, 2007 #

2. Terry,

   This is yet another example of what the web in the form of TCExtra brings us. Many thanks.

   Comment by Yankee — May 28, 2007 #

3. Good stuff. More evidence that a good blog can be very much like a town green.

   Comment by Terrence McCarthy — May 28, 2007 #

4. Terry, the editing isn’t so bad! It’s hard work!

   In doing some YouTube videos for Trinity Lime Rock , I have discovered that the ratio of minutes behind the camera versus minutes editing is about 1:10 — and the result still looks amateurish!

   Anyway, to Terry and the Lakeville Journal, welcome to Web 2.0!

   Comment by Geoff Brown — May 29, 2007 #

5. Memorial Day always finds Salisbury at its finest, esp the vets, and yesterday was glorious. And that intoxicating scent of thyme. We always see old friends, and it is inspiring to see even the angry teenagers remove their hats and bow their heads.

   Terry, are you sure it was a lone bugler…I thought I heard an echo.

   Comment by Peter Halle — May 29, 2007 #

6. Yankee and Geoff,

   Thanks for the encouragement. And you’re right, it was labor intensive, even though all I did was merge two clips (nothing fancy). I have a feeling when I get better at this, things will go a little faster.

   Peter,

   You’re right. My recollection is there was another bugler off in the distance who began playing after this one finished. I guess the term “lone” was used to describe this fellow as he was playing.

   Comment by Terry — May 29, 2007 #

7. I think the second bugler is something of an ethereal reply. We are not supposed to see him (her?).

   Comment by Peter Halle — May 29, 2007 #

8. Thanks for bringing up Memorial Day as a topic to take note of. My dad served in WW2 and turns 85 in July. Anyone wanting to send a note of thanks to him, I’ll pass along. He’s Dale Palmer, Sr and helped build many an foundation in the area as well as chimney.

   I’d like to give him a birthday gift of recollections from folks who knew him, who he worked for or otherwise worked with. He helped start a church in the area and has a strong sense of “living off the land” and as simply as possible. He never talked much about his war years, but met his wife-to-be on a weekend leave, married a couple months later after showing her the coal mine he planned to work out in New Mexico
   desert country.

   He lived in Salisbury for 25 years and then Falls Village for another 30 or more, running the landfill efficiently (driving a backhoe up a veritable mountain of garbage) for a decade. He never earned a high wage, but enjoyed the country life raising beef cattle, and doing quality brickwork while rearing a big batch of children with his wife Mary Palmer Sr who hailed from the big city of Torrington, the main reason the Palmers migrated back to the northwest corner from New Mexico.

   I look forward to a few quips and notes of appreciation for his WWII efforts (he was a radar man and the ship he had been on in many an icy water the US Manhasset, I think, went down two weeks after he was honorably discharged for medical reasons). Please send your thoughts to me at cppaton@yahoo.com. Thanks a bundle.–Catherine Palmer Paton

   Comment by Catherine — May 30, 2007 #

9. Unfortunately,I have sad news to report here. My father, Dale Palmer Sr, age 84, died after a brief illness in Mexico where he had resided for the past decade. He is loved and missed by all of his family. We are grateful for the many years we did have together,and will be having a family gathering over the summer to bury his ashes in Falls Village. He passed peacefully, telling his second wife Alma, “I’m flying into the sun.”

   Three years ago he was predeceased by his son with the same name, Dale Palmer Jr, and his former wife, Mary Palmer Sr, as well as a former son-in-law Marc Mittaud. My father had a strong Christian belief as a Mormon in the afterlife, worked hard and
   lived a full life.
   As my mother Mary Palmer Sr would often say from her Catholic beliefs, “May he and all the departed rest in peace.” Prayers for all of our family are appreciated. Peace to one and all at this lovely time of year, when many will graduate, plant gardens, and carry on with the work of running towns and connecting with the others with cooperation and respect.

   If anyone wants to gather information about their WWII local family members, their parents or even tell their own story, I encourage them to do so without worrying about telling it all at once or perfectly, but rather to jot down notes or have little talks about how people met (parents and such), list family members with birth years, and make a few notes about places lived, jobs held, and dreams and faith journeys.

   That ought to get the ball rolling.Family and friends are a gift to be celebrated daily as are the communities in which we live.May all have safe, fulfilling journeys this summer and beyond.
   Peace to one and all, Catherine Palmer Paton

   Comment by Catherine — June 5, 2007 #

10. Catherine,

    We rec’d the obit today. We at the LJ extend our sincerest condolences to you and your family.

    Comment by Terry — June 5, 2007 #

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