{"id":630,"date":"2012-04-11T22:03:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T03:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/?p=630"},"modified":"2012-04-12T21:50:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:50:10","slug":"gartside-retrospectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Gartside Retrospectives"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I wanted to pass along along links to a couple of retrospective articles on Jack published just this past month. The first is by Dave Souza of the Fall River (MA) Herald News, a longtime friend and supporter of Jack’s work. The second is by Elizabeth Laden, the publisher and editor of the Island Park (ID) News. I’ve never met Elizabeth but I know second hand a lot of the stories she relates and surely she’s a member of Jack’s “western family.”<\/p>\n

And not coincidentally the term, “family” is what struck me most after reading these two pieces. For a man with few blood relatives, Jack had an amazing ability to inspire and create family wherever he went. And of course, he went everywhere. So he had a Boston family, a western US family, a Florida family, a Caribbean family. He had cousins in Europe and brothers in Africa, South American sisters, Canadian uncles and New Zealand aunts.<\/p>\n

Both very fine reads. Thanks to Dave and Elizabeth for sending them along.<\/p>\n