10.26.2011

roll call

It's raining, and the ice cream stores have closed. We're down to a couple of ferries a day.  Last night was what they call the roll call dinner, where everybody sees who's left on the island.
It's an early Thanksgiving dinner. People cook turkeys and all the fixings, and everybody gathers at the Harbor Baptist Church where, for a donation of whatever they want, they can eat themselves silly. The kids from the high school (all seven of the graduating class) replenish the gravy and serve blackberry and pumpkin pies and coffee. It's a chance for the island folks who have ignored one another all summer to socialize. And we did.

Um. And due to this glowing article about me in the Block Island Times, I socialized while hiding out in the corner with friends and relatives. 
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12 comments:

  1. okraOctober 26, 2011 1:06 PM

    re: "donation of whatever they want, they can themselves silly. "

    perhaps... eat themselves silly? :)

    congrats on the Times article...

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  2. ClaudiaOctober 26, 2011 1:46 PM

    Little proofreading problem there. . .

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  3. DebbyOctober 26, 2011 3:44 PM

    What a nice article about your life.

    Having known you since 1976, I experienced most of the events described in real-time.

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  4. cbaOctober 26, 2011 3:49 PM

    Great article!

    But too bad she left out that Travis Tritt asked you to join his band.

    Now THAT was a highpoint.

    Maybe second only to Everest.

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  5. DaDaOctober 26, 2011 6:13 PM

    What about your interview with Richard Gere, now that was memorable, and so was the gift that came later.

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  6. D.R.October 26, 2011 10:26 PM

    Now I'm really curious about the Richard Gere bit, but anyway....great article. I'm proud to know ya, CGD!!!!!

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  7. D.R.October 26, 2011 10:27 PM

    P.S. Sorry to hear about the ice cream stores, but I guess it's time...

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  8. nerudaOctober 26, 2011 11:00 PM

    what did Gere give you??

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  9. ClaudiaOctober 27, 2011 7:43 PM

    It was actually Gere's R person, Peggy Seigel, who gave me a sterling Cross pen from Tiffany's. She was begging for a cover after one of my reporters and then, in a last ditch effort I, interviewed Gere who would talk about nothing but method acting and his favorite European cinema directors. People mag needed something a little racier than that. I told Gere, "If you don't give me something I can print yourself, then I am going to print every scurrilous rumor about you I can dig up." And I did, and he was on the cover, and Peggy sent me the pen. There was some question about whether I would be allowed to keep it (no gifts over $25 as I recollect and it was around that), but I think I did. And then must have lost it, as with every other valuable item not attached to my person.

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  10. otra rubiaOctober 28, 2011 6:00 PM

    Just seeing this now. What a great piece. I only wish I could've told Judy Tierney about the scene in La Cité the night before you took off for Everest.

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  11. ClaudiaOctober 28, 2011 10:55 PM

    You can tell me later—I don't remember it!

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  12. okraNovember 01, 2011 10:29 AM

    That AT Cross pen was probably made a lil bit upstate in Lincoln, RI... :)

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