{"id":3127,"date":"2017-04-21T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2017-05-06T10:30:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T14:30:28","slug":"remembering-david-hutchinson-1943-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3127","title":{"rendered":"Remembering David Hutchinson, 1943-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Glastonbury CT for a memorial service for a dear friend.<\/p>\n<p>\nDavid Hutchinson and I were friends for 60 years, ever since meeting in Grade 8 at Chadwick School in 1956. Our lives have many parallels, and we&#8217;ve shared quite a few enthusiasms over the years.  Thinking back over our friendship has been a voyage of gratitude and deepening admiration for a cherished and unique person.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis photograph (taken by Tom Schaefer in Spring 1961) exemplifies the sort of foolishness we happily collaborated in, and it truly seems like it was just yesterday:<center><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/34125957676\/in\/album-72157682771349166\/\" title=\"Tisket and Tasket\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2870\/34125957676_496758c6b3.jpg\" width=\"484\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Tisket and Tasket\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Chadwick taught Advanced Placement English to a small group of Senior Boys, and every day would arrive in the classroom with her Basket, containing whatever materials she&#8217;d planned to use that day. More than once David and I made a Thing of carrying the Basket for her. <\/p>\n<p>We were Mrs. Chadwick&#8217;s fair-haired boys and Prize Puppies, and both of us went Back East (as they say in California) for college, David to Yale and I to Harvard. David visited Cambridge several times, and this version of his smiling self was in 1965, when he visited Betsy and me after we were married:<center><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/16309474129\/in\/album-72157682771349166\/\" title=\"Hutch 1964\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8591\/16309474129_4806481ff4.jpg\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Hutch 1964\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We both developed interests in Southeast Asia, both joined the Peace Corps (David in Thailand, Betsy and I in Sarawak, Malaysia), and were in Hilo Hawaii at the same time for Peace Corps training. <\/p>\n<p>\nWe met up again in California in 1969, but then went our separate ways for 24 years, starting careers in distant places (David in Connecticut, Thailand, India, Zambia; I in Nova Scotia and then Virginia), and reconnecting in 1993. To the surprise of neither of us, we immediately picked up where we had left off, with lots more stories but still the same fundamental curiosities and engagement with the world. Thereafter we visited back and forth several times a year, and (once it was technologically possible) were in frequent Internet contact. A Skype or Google Video call would come in and continue for at least half an hour, full of rich reportage of doings and thinkings.<\/p>\n<p>\nOver the years since 1993 there were several Reunions of high school friends, in which we all discovered that those 3-4-5 Chadwick years had been remarkably formative for all of us. It has been endlessly fascinating to unpack the remarkable experiences and relationships of that time and place. <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/221422623\/in\/album-72157682771349166\/\" title=\"Chadwick 1961 in Maine\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/58\/221422623_332b9b3a59.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Chadwick 1961 in Maine\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>(Port Clyde ME 2006)<\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/221422551\/in\/album-72157682771349166\/\" title=\"Chadwick 1961 in Maine\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/65\/221422551_000752a0b2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Chadwick 1961 in Maine\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>(with Betsy and Kate, 2006)<\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/10017842963\/in\/album-72157682771349166\/\" title=\"Chadwick 1961 in Maine, September 2013\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3821\/10017842963_2a13d02eed.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"286\" alt=\"Chadwick 1961 in Maine, September 2013\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>(Tenants Harbor ME, 2013)<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>It should surprise nobody that many of the pictures I have from the last 24 years show David in gleeful conjunction with food, in many different places and across a broad swath of the world&#8217;s cuisines. Here are a few:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/2856112665\/in\/album-72157682771349166\/\" title=\"Pia&#x27;s pad thai\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3078\/2856112665_1e82280fbe.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Pia&#x27;s pad thai\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>(Pia&#8217;s Pad Thai, 2008)<\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/3849660636\/in\/album-72157682771349166\/\" title=\"Hutch, Steve and Jim disgracing themselves with fruit pies\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2568\/3849660636_efa3606e6d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Hutch, Steve and Jim disgracing themselves with fruit pies\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>(pie buddies, Tenants Harbor ME, 2009)<\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/9999956624\/in\/album-72157682771349166\/\" title=\"Hutch is pleased to be at HK\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/8\/7396\/9999956624_7f2e812731.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Hutch is pleased to be at HK\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>(Home Kitchen Cafe, Rockland ME 2013)<\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/10000018496\/in\/album-72157682771349166\/\" title=\"Hutch shares a stickybun\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/6\/5456\/10000018496_0cf2338878.jpg\" width=\"347\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Hutch shares a stickybun\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>(Home Kitchen Cafe, Rockland ME 2013) <\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/10039243044\/in\/album-72157682771349166\/\" title=\"David contemplates oat muffins\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3827\/10039243044_eb995040b1.jpg\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" alt=\"David contemplates oat muffins\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <br \/>\n (Tenants Harbor ME 2013)<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nKate adds several more from her archive:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kateblackmer\/3989961795\/in\/photolist-iY1dVT-dFRu67-deqXV4-deqZ68-caR1mb-c2vJdY-bws6H5-b3naLX-aXGwKZ-am4Wwq-ahV9AG-9AzZcU-98WRxg-97nFgG-92Z1iG-92LuB8-92Jfhs-92Emwp-8W32AQ-8VXD5r-8SUeJT-87mzzs-81Smmg-81SeB8-81H9m8-76z3MC-75zACK-75DsQd-75zzXZ-6Shd63-6Sd7Wx-6ShcdC-6Sd79a-6k1c9z-51ViHu-51Viuw-4UFEPy-4UDnXm-4UxfVf-4UnSYm-4UkMKd-4UkMcW-4Ugyt4-38b5T4\" title=\"091004_KateShannonMakeshiftHutchPia\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2607\/3989961795_e82aba7ef3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"091004_KateShannonMakeshiftHutchPia\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kateblackmer\/4604298745\/in\/photolist-iY1dVT-dFRu67-deqXV4-deqZ68-caR1mb-c2vJdY-bws6H5-b3naLX-aXGwKZ-am4Wwq-ahV9AG-9AzZcU-98WRxg-97nFgG-92Z1iG-92LuB8-92Jfhs-92Emwp-8W32AQ-8VXD5r-8SUeJT-87mzzs-81Smmg-81SeB8-81H9m8-76z3MC-75zACK-75DsQd-75zzXZ-6Shd63-6Sd7Wx-6ShcdC-6Sd79a-6k1c9z-51ViHu-51Viuw-4UFEPy-4UDnXm-4UxfVf-4UnSYm-4UkMKd-4UkMcW-4Ugyt4-38b5T4\" title=\"Hutch and Pia&#x27;s\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3385\/4604298745_5557755019.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Hutch and Pia&#x27;s\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kateblackmer\/2561796916\/in\/photolist-iY1dVT-dFRu67-deqXV4-deqZ68-caR1mb-c2vJdY-bws6H5-b3naLX-aXGwKZ-am4Wwq-ahV9AG-9AzZcU-98WRxg-97nFgG-92Z1iG-92LuB8-92Jfhs-92Emwp-8W32AQ-8VXD5r-8SUeJT-87mzzs-81Smmg-81SeB8-81H9m8-76z3MC-75zACK-75DsQd-75zzXZ-6Shd63-6Sd7Wx-6ShcdC-6Sd79a-6k1c9z-51ViHu-51Viuw-4UFEPy-4UDnXm-4UxfVf-4UnSYm-4UkMKd-4UkMcW-4Ugyt4-38b5T4\" title=\"080608_KHTBH\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3186\/2561796916_eb406e0ea5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"080608_KHTBH\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kateblackmer\/1393896545\/in\/photolist-iY1dVT-dFRu67-deqXV4-deqZ68-caR1mb-c2vJdY-bws6H5-b3naLX-aXGwKZ-am4Wwq-ahV9AG-9AzZcU-98WRxg-97nFgG-92Z1iG-92LuB8-92Jfhs-92Emwp-8W32AQ-8VXD5r-8SUeJT-87mzzs-81Smmg-81SeB8-81H9m8-76z3MC-75zACK-75DsQd-75zzXZ-6Shd63-6Sd7Wx-6ShcdC-6Sd79a-6k1c9z-51ViHu-51Viuw-4UFEPy-4UDnXm-4UxfVf-4UnSYm-4UkMKd-4UkMcW-4Ugyt4-38b5T4\" title=\"070916_KateBetsyShannonHutchHugh.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/2\/1201\/1393896545_fef767c85e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"070916_KateBetsyShannonHutchHugh.JPG\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kateblackmer\/8327279536\/in\/photolist-iY1dVT-dFRu67-deqXV4-deqZ68-caR1mb-c2vJdY-bws6H5-b3naLX-aXGwKZ-am4Wwq-ahV9AG-9AzZcU-98WRxg-97nFgG-92Z1iG-92LuB8-92Jfhs-92Emwp-8W32AQ-8VXD5r-8SUeJT-87mzzs-81Smmg-81SeB8-81H9m8-76z3MC-75zACK-75DsQd-75zzXZ-6Shd63-6Sd7Wx-6ShcdC-6Sd79a-6k1c9z-51ViHu-51Viuw-4UFEPy-4UDnXm-4UxfVf-4UnSYm-4UkMKd-4UkMcW-4Ugyt4-38b5T4\" title=\"Snowstorm aside, we made it to Portland in time to meet Hutch, Pia, and our new friend Nok for a delicious brunch.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8083\/8327279536_719c5beb53.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Snowstorm aside, we made it to Portland in time to meet Hutch, Pia, and our new friend Nok for a delicious brunch.\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\nand one by Shannon Riley:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/badgerriley\/15387970081\/in\/photolist-4ncKEy-7LXSYz-4UtLFo-4UpFJ6-4Utu9s-prMnoZ-5ZmGZF-5njxF3-EQsgkZ-5EE3xB-4ZGLiW-FBwDG3-nAH8Sc-7yqzJe-prMkyB-4cktGr-8FZ7XY-8b4QPx-pqzU3q-oznWXK\" title=\"High School Buds 3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2945\/15387970081_6d8247938e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" alt=\"High School Buds 3\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>Tenants Harbor, 2014<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Glastonbury CT for a memorial service for a dear friend. David Hutchinson and I were friends for 60 years, ever since meeting in Grade 8 at Chadwick School in 1956. Our lives have many parallels, and we&#8217;ve shared quite a few enthusiasms over the years. Thinking back over our friendship has been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-remembered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3147,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}