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We dropped off Darlene's friend Tish at her son's home outside of Hartford last night. This gave us the chance to spend the night in a handsome hotel in downtown Hartford, the Goodwin. We are in a big room with slants in the ceiling and little windows peeking out from the top floor, like an attic. I had imagined looking for the home of Wallace Stevens, Hartford's famous businessman-poet, but we're having too much fun here at the hotel, reading the paper, drinking Peet's coffee, and playing ball with Claire.

The Hartford Courant this morning has a moving profile of the Worcester Wreath Co., a Maine business that each Christmas donates wreaths to decorate the graves of veterans at Arlington National Cemetery. On Dec. 10 a tractor-trailer with 5,000 wreaths will leave Harrington, Maine, accompanied by the Patriot Guard Riders motorcycle club, following Route 1 for the four-day trip to D.C. The web site for Wreaths Across America is here.

Sunday, December 03, 2006