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From Laurie Peterson (UWM) - lauriep@uwm.edu - (414) 229-6239 (w)
The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (UWM) will be having a memorial service for Larry on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2000, 2-5:00pm at the UWM Hefter Conference Center, 3271 N. Lake Drive. 

I wanted to update you on plans following Larry's Memorial service on the 10th.  I have a reservation in at Bodolino's (pizza restaurant across the street from Mitchell Hall, UWM, 3124 N. Downer Ave, for around 30-40 people. 

Larry  and I ate here frequently, and since the local coffee shop changed hands in Jan.00,  Larry stopped here daily for his late afternoon coffee!  But they didn't have his chocolate chip cookies!  I am waiting to get an official confirmation of the reservation, but was told it would probably be fine. That will be the first sunday they are open.  They have a side room that works for large groups.

I decided to contact the restaurant since the service will offer only light finger food, and people will/may be hungry at that time of the day.  I thought it'd be too difficult to try to arrange for food at my house for so many people.  I am still planning on having my house open after the restaurant for anyone who wants to continue to talk and share; and I'm hoping that will happen.
 
 
 

From Myra Hirschberg - Brampton, Ontario, Canada, zydeco@dancing.org

I thought you might like to post a bit about Larry's memorial in Maine, which took place on Sunday, September 17, 2000.  Larry's brother and his wife, Tom and Gail, live on a beautiful property near the coast of Maine, overlooking a pond, surrounded by woods, gardens, and orchard - it was a place that Larry loved and visited as often as he could, at least twice a year since Tom and Gail moved there 25 years ago.

About 25 relatives and close friends from all over - Milwaukee, Harrisburg, Atlanta, New York, Reading, New Jersey, London, Toronto, Maine and elsewhere - gathered for the weekend, renewed old friendships, and shared fond memories, photos, slides and even a recording of Larry playing Bach, as well as the kind of wonderful food and drink that Larry would have greatly appreciated - including wild blueberries from Maine, bagels and lox from Manhattan, kringle from Wisconsin, and Tom's delectable fruit wines and hard cider.

On Sunday afternoon, we all walked along a fern-scented path, past the maypole, to a glade in the woods behind Tom and Gail's house, where Larry's ashes were laid to rest under an oak tree. Following this, we moved to a chapel whose clean spare lines and lovely architecture Larry would also surely have appreciated, for a service that included Paul Sullivan, a friend, playing one of Larry's own compositions, and Larry's lovely nieces Emily and Dierdre playing "Ashokan Farewell" on fiddle and piano. Many, many people spoke - there were stories and memories from every stage of Larry's life, reflecting the myriad sides of his character. Larry's cousin Brian designed a gravestone based on Gothic architectural elements, but also including allusions to Larry's life as a dancer, writer, musician, opera and ballet fanatic, hiker, nature lover, and eater (the design includes his grandmother's apple pie, barbecue sandwiches, and chocolate chip cookies!)
 

This is the piece that Tom wrote and graced us with at the graveside:

For Larry

Larry, we're putting you here under the oaks.
Remember when we planted the one behind the house? It came from here, here where the thrushes will sing to you from the deep wood.

And the woodpeckers will tap their staccato in precise rhythm.
Do not heed the mourning doves.
Listen rather to the swishing pines, the loons laughing.
Not one meteor will you miss on the cold clear nights.
The deer will bed down with you in the snow.
Do not be sad when they leave in the spring
For the eye of the osprey will watch this spot.
Then the nighthawk will whirr,
The mosquitoes will hum,
The chokeberries here will ripen,
Until at full circle the leaves fall on you and in you.
In the end we all become that earth from which we came.
 

Tom Hoey
September 17, 2000
Brooksville, Maine

Myra Hirschberg - Brampton, Ontario, Canada
zydeco@dancing.org
 
 
 

From Paul Collins - - (773) 506-822 (h) - (773) 463-2288 (w)
Some of us in Chicago are considering a memorial service for Larry later in the Fall, after the Milwaukee service. 
 
 
 

From Paul Collins - - (773) 506-822 (h) - (773) 463-2288 (w)
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