This is Rumbelstrup by America Heilman

Today I'm gonna play a show I made back in 2008

It's a tribute to my friend Greg Sharo.

Greg died two days ago.

Greg was one of the first people I met when I came back to Vermont in 2003.

I didn't have many friends, I didn't have a job, or really any plans, and it was the middle of winter.

And then I met Greg at his office in the old Folklife Center building in Middlebury.

It was all crammed with books and old newspapers, and we sat down and we talked for about two hours.

It was that kind of talk where you're almost gulping each other down and he became one of the

funnest and maybe one of the most important friends of my life.

I remember one day I visited Greg at his house in the middle of the summer.

It was really hot.

Greg said we should go river walking.

So we put on some old sneakers and we walked into the

brook that ran behind his house and we walked downstream. In places it got deep

and we drifted down on our backs and then it was a brook again and then it opened up wide into a river and we drifted down some more.

It was a perfect day.

Greg was really good at perfect days. This is a story about Greg and his husband Bob and

Greg's mother, Marjorie. Marjorie had dementia for years before her death

and this is a show about what remained

for this family after the forgetting. Welcome.

And I am once again with you.

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