Greetings all...

Haven't been able to post for a while, due to my mother, Barbara Hall Fiske Calhoun (or Isabelle Calhoun) being ill and in a nursing home. There has been a lot of stuff to do to get it together to make it possible for her to be in the home on a continuing basis. If I can, I would like to bring her home or to a nursing home closer to Quarry Hill.
Right now she is in Brookside Nursing Home in White River JCT VT. She is 94 and was one of the co-creators of Quarry Hill.

I try to visit her at least once a week and maybe more if I can. Cold weather will make it more difficult, but there's a hostel for people with ill family members there that may put me up on bad nights.

By The Way!  The Vermont Movie will be showing parts 3 and 4 in WRJ on November 17 and I will try to be there, speak to the audience (as QH, Barb, and many others, and I are in the 3rd part) and hope that we can bring Barb to the movie as well. I know she'd enjoy the part about QH, but might not be able to sit through all the other stuff... only Quarry Hill really interests her.

It is too bad that she can't be home since that is so. I'll try to get her as close as I can once I get all the legalities worked out.

Love to all,
LB

Barbara Fiske Calhoun with her 2nd husband, Dr Donald W. Calhoun, in 1989 (Wedding photo?)

Mutual forgiveness of each vice Opens the gates of Paradise. -- William Blake.
Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends. -- G. Bernard Shaw

Barb is OK

Barbara does not have melanoma in her system (sentinel lymph node), according to her doctor. I was very relieved to hear this, and she was, too, though some flesh still needs to be removed from her arm, and then the arm sewed up, possibly in plastic surgery. This will be in a few days.

Thanks to all who called her or in other ways expressed good wishes.
Ladybelle