1977

Postcards from the Ledge: Not enough going on between the kids, the berries, the business mags and the remodel, so I'm running for town council. Too many lawyers, AARP types, I'm going for it. Jeff Lyon

Just jumped to Bay Bank from Liberty Financial here in Bean town. Couldn't be a better time to make this move. Need investment advice? Just call. Most sincerely, AndrewWallace.

If you recently got a card from Andy, pay no attention—I'm loving Portsmouth, working for Northeast Planning Associates, advising people on how to keep what they're making for when they aren't making it anymore. Henry Cooley III

Apologize for the 5x8 card, but lots going on. Twin daughters arrived last year. So did a recent uptick at my job at Towers Perrin here in San Antonio. Husband Bob had a rough year health wise last year but we're through the worst, I hope. When I'm not involved in the above, Dartmouth locals count on me to count for them as treasurer of the Club here. Sing my heart out with a couple of Choral Societies. Volunteer with the South Texas Blood Bank and San Antonio Museum, to name a few. And my high school honored me with induction into its Hall of Fame last fall. Go Cranston High! Deep Breath, Leslie Kenney Finertie.

Burning paper airplanes, slingshots full of radishes, funnelators, wild scenes at South Mass. Just some of my recollections about Dart Coll. Been collecting these reminiscences and working them into an interactive art project I'm creating called Devils Food Daniel. I hope it survives better than some of my mural work I've done around the Bay Area, which seems to get caught between battling bureaucrats—up one week, down the next. Sound like the Hovey Grill Murals? Best, MikeMosher.

Rent taxes, business taxes, property taxes never met a tax I couldn't fight. Fighting my battles for America Works in New York. We're trying to make it easier to do business in New York City. Tough job, you bet. Game for the challenge, absolutely. Come see me in the Big Apple. Dan Mahony

Dreaming of Wisconsin? Rose Bowls? Cheese? Smelt fishing? Family and medical leave policy? We got it all. Practicing labor and employment law for a firm in my hometown, waiting for the ice to break. We're here, you're not. Robert Sholl

I Appeal. That's the title of my newest sculpture showing at the JFK Federal Building here in Boston. It's a tribute to a friend and legal colleague who passed away last year. The work, from shattered stone tiles, hopefully captures key themes of his and others' lives—pride, humility, mortality, ethics, humor. Come check it out. Yours in granite, Elizabeth Michelman.

While winging East for a software conference in New York, I ran into Doug Ireland with his two kids on the flight. Pretty brave. Pretty good dad. Some day I'll try it with mine. Not any day soon. —Bob Williams

(The preceding lines are fictional accounts of events that have some, but not much, basis in fact. All the characters are real people.)

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