Wrinkled But Not Brainless: A Series on Aging (Part 5)

Ercel Eaton is an author, poet, and journalist retired after 43 years at the Hamilton Journal-News. This is the fifth part of a series about aging:

Area resident relishes fishing trip

By Don Streit
Contributing Writer

The chorus in Lightfoot’s Canadian Railroad Trilogy dances in my head as we motor through the narrow shallows that separate Middle Glenn Lake from the Lower Glenn. I’m more excited than normal on this calm August morning in the Canadian wilderness because we’re headed for somewhere I’ve never been
before. The extra lure of this place is the wonder of just how many people have ever been here before. That number cannot possibly be a large one.
“There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run. When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun. Long before the white man and long before the wheel. When the green dark forest was too silent to be real.”

Wrinkled But Not Brainless: A Series on Aging

Early Lindenwald memories created by ‘little stories’