It happened again the other day when Kulk recognized someone he covered many years earlier. Lindsay Jacobs. Lindsay Jacobs, he repeated. You were on the 95 soccer team that lost at CVU, right? She nodded yes and smiled. You look exactly the same. Her 4-year-old Brooke slept at her bosom while her mother also joined the chat with questions. Kulk definitely knew her face but struggled with the name till she said Le Jacobs and that its been awhile since shes seen him at the gym, and it all started to come together. Riiiight, Tom bought you those bowls a few months ago. Tom and Le Jacobs, one of the fittest couples in town, maybe even in Vermont -- and theyre pushing 70. Furious bike riders at Anytime Fitness Bennington VT. It all made sense now. And how funny is it that Tom and Le Jacobss daughter is Lindsay Jacobs, the tireless central-middle on MAUs soccer teams in the mid-90s. Kulk wrote about her often when he worked at the Bennington Banner and here they were again the other day, 18 years later, face to face for the first time, and mom was there too. She graduated in 96 and went to UConn. Played club soccer. Kulk brought up that playoff loss at CVU though her memories were a bit murkier than his though she remembered Crusader All-American Jen Carlson. She also remembers rolling an ankle in the game. It was one of those days way up in the guts of Vermont. She also played on the hoops team that lost (a tilted playoff) at CVU. Every time we went to CVU it was like, Ugh! The longer they chatted the more the faces began to surface in the fore of her mind: Varsity coach Dave Holmgren and freshman coach Tracy Malloy, who instilled the idea of STRONG MOJO ... our rallying cry meaning to give it all youve got. Lindsay said that getting to play under the lights was way cool because it happened rarely and what stands out most almost 20 years later are memories of how close those teams were, or as she called it friends sticking together. She tries to make it up from Boston, where she works in HRS at Covidian, to play in the Blue Lollipop Game, created by MAU grad Diane Peacock as way to celebrate the memories of MAU athletes Brandy Brown and Maria Greene, killed in a 1994 car crash. Lindsay also played basketball and tennis. A full-time job and 2 daughters (1-year-old Rylee is the other) run her ragged yet she stays active, and come June shell compete in her first sprint triathlon -- half a mile swim, 12 miles on the bike, 5-mile run. As for the athletic matriarch of the family, Le loved the wood bowls Tom gave her for their anniversary. Theyre beauuuuutiful. She used em for bread last time they hosted guests. °_°_° Yesterday, Mike and Kim of Chesterfield New Hampshire, just north of Keene, bought a turquoise glass snowflake plate for his mom Maureen. They work at Stratton Mountain, Vermont, which means they get to ski for free all winter. Cant ask for a better perk. Mikes ski bum who loves the Bear Down run the most because its fun and steep. Kims a newbie on skis and spends most of her time swooshing down tame runs at Villager or Tamarac. I feel like a superstar on that side of the mountain. Stratton has a new gondola -- Kulk used to scan tickets at the old one ca. 98 -- as well as the new Ice Castle sculpture at the Sun Bowl, which lights up at night. You can walk through it. °_°_° As yesterdays light faded and darkness approached, Ned and Julie and Diane and Emily found original artworks to enhance their lives and to give others as gifts. Emily bought herself a cantaloupe Vegetabowl because I really like it and its unique and yeah, the first thing she eats from it will probably be cantaloupe. Meta! Diane bought the framed John DeAmicis litho-print of a smiling and dignified woman melded within the trunk of a tree. The left side reads, Rejoice in your strength ... while the right side reads, Celebrate your growth ... and below the roots it reads, Honor your Being. It reminds me of my niece, who is very spiritual, Diane said. Julie bought a smaller DeAmicis with a funkier woman, silhouetted with stars and eternity swirls bursting from within. Below it reads, *All the wonders you seek are within yourself Its a quote from Sir Thomas Brown though Julie, whos Jewish, said it reminds her of the Israeli equivalent that says You are enough. Ned is British and while he didnt buy anything -- though he did curiously have to pull out his plastic to pay for Emilys cantaloupe bowl and Dianes DeAmicis -- the high school math teacher gave Kulk a birthday gift idea for Fiddlehead owner Joel Lentzner, whos close to getting his PhD in education -- and whose 46th birthday is tomorrow. °_°_° Two nights ago, Heidi came into the gallery decked out in turquoise and navy blue and one thing leads to another ... and Kulk snapped a great shot of her chalking the chair in the Graffiti Vault. She called it the Love Seat after drawing pink hearts on it. The funnier thing is that Kulk and Bossman began the day with a short chat about another Heidi they knew many years earlier. Like Heidi in the Graffiti Vault, Kulk snapped a rather bizarro photo of Heidi of Yore on her wedding night at a joint on Northside Drive. °_°_° And since were celebrating Kulks ability to persuade cuties to do strange things in front of the camera, were ending with a shot of Rachel from last night, whos pretending to guzzle a jug of Corse Farm maple syrup she just bought as a birthday present for Sass, who is obsessed with maple syrup. Rachel is from Baltimore, goes to college near Albany, and comes to Bennington all the time for Bible Study at Citizens Bank. She and Kulk exchanged books months ago. He gave her Flowers for Algernon, which she disdained with such passion that she didnt continue after the first 45-50 pages, while she gave him a book about what a real atheist is. He read the first paragraph and hasnt seen it since.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:54:12 +0000
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