Carpe Diem
My once strong, fun and beautiful mother sits up in her peach nightgown and declares "I think that the best years of my life were at the lake." My parents came home one 1980 s weekend and announced that they had purchased a house on a lake near Middlebury, VT. I grew up in a town with a beach and I did not understand the value of a lake. This house was a wonderfully exciting way to learn. It was an annex to an inn, so it had six bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms overlooking the biggest lake within Vermont's borders. We each had our own rooms and when we walked into that house all of the stress generated by city life evaporated. The centerpiece of the lake, that looks and feels very much like Lake Como to me, is Neshobe Island, the summer camp of the literati of the 1920s Algonquin Round Table. Rumors of Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, and Edna Ferber running naked on the island made adults laugh and children...