Well, the visit was brief and pleasent. Yesterday Markham Breitbach, my childhood friend from Orangeville swung by for a visit on his extended trip across Europe. He currently resides in Yellowknife where he has a job "building the internet." It sounds pretty neat, his company sets up the infrastructure and services so that the remote communities of northern Canada can get internet access via satellite. Markham has obviously changed somewhat in the last 15 years or so, he is a beard wearing-long hair having-wildman of the north type now. There was a lot the same as back from the childhood days, still a techie geek and laughing a lot. He was a lot more soft spoken than I remember, Markham was quite a loud guy back then, he seems much more calm now.
His wife was very nice too, Tracy. She works as the organizer of a big music festival in Yellowknife called "Folk on the Rocks." Rather than do it the injustice of describing it, I will just put a link to the website, it is well worth having a look:
http://www.folkontherocks.com/home.phpIn honor of an ex-Orangeville reunion, here is a photo I took there a few winters ago.
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