Heard from Alva. Told me she’d decided to leave Albany to check out the real world. Seems she’d heard the bridge at Crown Point was completed and was a sight for sore eyes–I guess hers. So she and a friend who had joined her in Albany to rattle political cages about extending the Millionaire’s Tax had taken a run up to see the new bridge and walk across it.
According to Alva, the view from the bridge over Lake Champlain is simply stunning in both North and South directions so they have decided to bunk down in Port Henry for a few days.
Oh, and just a bit ago, Alva called me again to say the Bridge at Crown Point at night from Port Henry is just magical to behold; not only the walkways over the bridge, but also the road leading up to it are beautifully lit.
Also, according to Alva, she and an acquaintance named Zeta have already decided to walk the span again in the morning, but this time, as the sun comes up–because the Green Mountains with the sun rising over them and the thought of arriving mid-Bridge as it does so is just too exciting for her to resist.
In view of Alva’s anticipation, it just didn’t seem to be the time to talk of mundane things like Alva Press and our PR campaign. So I never got to mention the fact that Kristen Henderson’s book of poetry, Drum Machine, will be released in January.
Also I did not mention that last night I met Carl Waldman, well-know author of some ten or more other books on explorers, Elvis, and American Indians–including the Encyclopedia of Native Americans! Or that he’s asked me to read his yet to be published newest novel–a mystery.
Can’t help it. Life is so lop-sided: Alva’s all in a tizzy about Crown Point Bridge being done and right now all I can think about is reading Waldman’s mystery.
Still, next week I think I’ll take a run to Port Henry just to take a look at the Bridge myself. I love Port Henry–used to live there–and was pretty devastated a couple of years ago when they imploded the old Crown Point Bridge due to its weakened state.
And believe me, I was not the only one.
Roberta in Po-Town, Ready to run four hours north