AD's Journal 2024

   Perhaps it was Paulie's last joke from beyond the grave I had planned to spend the day the library he directed while I waited for my kitten to get neutered   I'd even checked the library website to make certain of the hours then after dropping the kitten off I killed time revisiting the old library building and the island where Paulie had lived finally after going the wrong direction in search of the new library building I also briefly went to the old library building where Paulie had started his career and then took pictures The police sign above the downstairs door had faded since they had also moved the police headquarters to a new building elsewhere in town I also briefly paused near the bar where Hank Paulie and I had gotten drunk back in the 1970s well in search of a house where Rick lived on the lake and where Paulie would eventually move into well he was director and of course it would have the ominous name of 13 Willow Lane Although the amusement...

   I can't recall exactly the last time I came here before 2010 for sure since the library was still a library then this aside from our magical mystery tour last year when we paid this part of the planet a visit though Paulie with long gone by then Back the last time I came here, when Paulie was still alive, he was still director though he no longer lived in the house on the lake We came for Memorial Day at the firehouse in 2002 when he, John and Garrick played and then again two years later for the picnic outdoors with a full band -- that later played the gig at the grasshopper in cedar Grove before the band broke up again for the last time as it turned out This building, the old library,   when it's still served as the town's library, also served as a police station in a town that has since outgrown the old library and old police station, still small when Pauly moved to this neck of the woods in 1985 A tiny building that at the time with Police department on t...