Dan Fogelberg - The Reach

"In 1978 I purchased an old sea captain's house on an island in Maine. I became (and still am) completely enraptured with the sea. Summer in Maine is always special but in autumn when the tourists retreat and an island returns to its quiet, isolated existence is when I find it most endearing. I dearly love this song." (Dan Fogelberg) " The Reach " written by Singer/Songwriters Dan Fogelberg, from "The Innocent Age" album (1981). RIP Dan, thank you for the beautiful everlasting music! Thank you Amy for the Minstrel photo link, special thank to Bobby for liner notes and to many artists/photographers for their beautiful pictures and portraits of Maine! (Lyrics) It's Maine, and it's Autumn, the birches have just begun turning It's life and it's dying The lobstermen's boats come returning with the catch of the day in their holds And the young boy is cold and complaining The fog meets the beaches and out on the Reach it is raining It's father and son, it's the way it's been done since the old days It's hauling by hand ten miles out from the land where their chow waits And the days are all lonely and long and the seas grow so stormy and strong but... The Reach will sing welcome as homeward they hurry along (Chorus) And the morning will blow away as the waves crash and fall And the Reach like a siren sings as she beckons and calls As the coastline recedes from view and the seas swell and roll I will take from the Reach all that she has to teach to the depths of my soul The wind ...

Eddie Cochran, Denver Interview 1957 [1 of 2] Freeman Bowdle Hover, Jr. died February 9, 2009, in his apartment at the La Rosa Health Care Center, Tucson, Arizona, after a long battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Mr. Hover was a notable radio disk jockey in the 1950s before becoming a high school teacher in the early 1960s. His interviews with rock and roll artists Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and others are part of rock and roll history and have been published and widely shared online. In recognition of his radio days, he was sometimes referred to as "the legendary Freeman Hover." Born March 1, 1929, in Ann Arbor, near his home in Plymouth, Mich., Mr. Hover always maintained a remarkable capacity to recall vivid details of growing up in a small town. He graduated from Plymouth High School in 1947. He attended Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colo., and earned a bachelor of arts degree at the University of Denver in 1951. He received a Master's Degree from the University of Colorado in the early 1960s. For two years he served in the US Air Force as a public information officer, and continued in the Air Force Reserves for 22 years. He successfully completed officer candidates school and retired from the service as a second lieutenant. As a deejay, Mr. Hover worked in Chadron, Neb.; Williston, N. Dak.; and Phoenix. He taught journalism in Ajo, Ariz., and later at Rincon High School, Tucson, until retiring in 1988. At Rincon he taught a notable course in ...

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