A Saturday Afternoon Update:

This just in: Today's Brattleboro Reformer featured

this obit for my First Run Video friend and fellow employee Gary Cummins;

come spring, I hope to make it to the service.

Play an old blue-grass tune for Gary, wouldja?

Sad News...

...the First Run Video fellow employee and good fellow I mentioned earlier today, Gary Cummins, just passed away. I got the call earlier today; Gary died at his home yesterday, late afternoon.

Gary was a real sweetheart, an incredibly kind, positive and decent man. It was a pleasure to know him, and great to work alongside him in my final months at the store; I wish I'd known him better.

He was only a year and half or so younger than I am.

He will be missed by many -- his wife, his stepson, those of us who worked with him. Pick a tune or play some bluegrass music for Gary; it was his favorite listening...