Memorial Day and Golden Gate Bridge's 75th Anniversary

While retrieving a fourth article by Sam Whiting, I lost all of my blog!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/17/PKOR1O1RUA.DTL  Dressing for the occasion--and to honor six counties that contributed to the building of GGB

As I was saying:  I woke up in a funk but soon felt wonderful because of the Sam Whiting articles I found on the Golden Gate Bridge.   He does justice to his subjects because he's witty and wise.  Here are three others:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/17/PKRF1O4089.DTL  on Vertigo as surreal GGB

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/20/PKD51O931N.DTL International Orange Commemorative Store as Art

 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/20/PK0Q1NU623.DTL  More on artists and International Orange

The picture above is one I took when Bill Shoaf and I took a walk from Lincoln and Langdon to the GGB and then across it to Murray's Circle in Sausalito.  (We ate outdoors at the Fern Bar, where we had their four-course plate while looking at the GGB from a different direction.)  The path you se in this picture is a new one, and it's where Bill and I began.  This was Wednesday, May 23, right in the middle of my final exam week, when I was testing students, scoring, calculating results, and starting to get grades online.  What a nice change this walk was!  I had warned Bill that I might not be able to walk across because of my vertigo (not quite so romantic--or deadly--as Kim Novak's), but I had no trouble at all.  As you can see, it was a beautiful day, and it felt very good except for a sort of accident I had that I won't mention here.

We really hadn't planned this walk because this weekend is the big celebratory weekend; I don't think either of us thought of that at all even though we were certainly aware that his was the 75th anniversary year!  As much as I love the bridge and the city it symbolizes, I've been more excited about Stern Grove's 75th anniversary.  

But I plan to devote some of today to reading more on the bridge.

I had just one "interruption," and it's a very significant one--one I welcome.  Going into my e-mail to send a husband what I've written so far for his wife's retirement gathering, I saw a link for something on memorial day, and it's really the first link we should check out: 

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/282-98/11629-focus-immemorial-day-no-peace-for-militarized-us