Ralph Donald Jessee

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Acadia

2005 · Acadia National Park, Maine · 11 min read

Acadia

The family arrived at a campground in Acadia National Park late in the afternoon. Rain was still falling, as it had all day. We carefully unloaded our tents from the Volkswagen minibus, erected them and set up the tent fly over the camp table. The rain slacked…

Anger and Disappointment

2008 · 2 min read

Anger and Disappointment

In talking with Bill Rosenberg, a draftsman at Westinghouse, I mentioned my long trips to see Mardelle and wished she could come to see me sometime. He told me of a certain lake nearby in Indiana, where he went occasionally. “My wife and I will be going there …