{"id":391,"date":"2015-02-20T20:24:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T20:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencedavis.org\/?p=391"},"modified":"2015-02-20T20:24:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T20:24:39","slug":"la-plume-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/2015\/02\/la-plume-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"La Plume (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Craig,<\/p>\n

Ah to be found at last.\u00a0 I would have written much sooner, but I stupidly threw away the envelope with your address.\u00a0 I too was about to write c\/o your home address.\u00a0 It was any way a rare pleasure to read your essay on writing of a couple of letters back.\u00a0 Its pleasure grows with each reading.<\/p>\n

So many things have happened since I last wrote — I graduated from school, spent many hourse and much energy looking for work for next year and finally did.\u00a0 My mother and my sister came up for my graduation.\u00a0 I got a car and my driver’s license and my Connecticut No-Fault Auto Insurance and the longest sore throat I can remember (7 days) and yes, I came back to Kamp Kewanee.<\/p>\n

I will be working next year at Suffield Academy — it is a private boys’ high school as Director of Music.\u00a0 Along with my position as Musical Director of the Plainville Choral Society.\u00a0 They are both part-time positions, so I will have some time to myself and still plenty of money to live on.\u00a0 My needs are simple.<\/p>\n

Well this class is nearly over and I must go to my next activity.\u00a0 Please write soon.\u00a0 One more thing — I miss you and think of you often.<\/p>\n

Larry<\/p>\n

19 July, 1973
\nLa Plume, Pa.<\/p>\n

Below, Lawrence (front row, far right) at Kamp Kewanee, near Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1973.\u00a0 – CHC<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Lawrence<\/a>Photo credit — www.kampkewanee.org<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Craig, Ah to be found at last.\u00a0 I would have written much sooner, but I stupidly threw away the envelope with your address.\u00a0 I too was about to write c\/o your home address.\u00a0 It was any way a rare pleasure to read your essay on writing of a couple of letters back.\u00a0 Its pleasure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-correspondence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}