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Gitchigumee · 11-26-2007, 06:46 PM

I'm going to stray a bit off topic here, but I have a story and this seems to fit.

I was vacationing in Door County, Wisconsin, with my husband and young sons, during the summer of 1989. We were at a bar/restaurant one evening and there was a musician singing and playing his guitar. He played The Wreck (no clue who he was), but when he did, it rekindled a spark that had been dwelling deep within me since I was a kid back in the mid-70's and I had first fallen in love with the song Sundown. The spark fully ignited my burning desire for all things Lightfoot, and I've been listening to Gord pretty much non-stop ever since... Funny how you remember things... If only that lonely musician knew how his playing that song has affected my life. Just goes to show you how a simple look, gesture or song can change the course of someone else's life.

11-26-2007, 06:46 PM	#11
Gitchigumee Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 504	Re: Do Any Of You Remember When It Happened? I'm going to stray a bit off topic here, but I have a story and this seems to fit. I was vacationing in Door County, Wisconsin, with my husband and young sons, during the summer of 1989. We were at a bar/restaurant one evening and there was a musician singing and playing his guitar. He played The Wreck (no clue who he was), but when he did, it rekindled a spark that had been dwelling deep within me since I was a kid back in the mid-70's and I had first fallen in love with the song Sundown. The spark fully ignited my burning desire for all things Lightfoot, and I've been listening to Gord pretty much non-stop ever since... Funny how you remember things... If only that lonely musician knew how his playing that song has affected my life. Just goes to show you how a simple look, gesture or song can change the course of someone else's life. __________________ "There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run. When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun. Long before the white man, and long before the wheel. When the green dark forest was too silent to be real." Last edited by Gitchigumee; 11-26-2007 at 06:49 PM.