Aging webmaster’s note: While performing some routine tasks Wednesday morning, I managed to delete the entire website. The entire thing! Fortunately, it gets backed up every few days. Unfortunately, that means anything posted in the past forty-eight hours or so vanished into that place where deleted computer files and socks go. That includes the latest entry about the writer Edie Clark. Well, all the pieces are back, and if memory serves me correctly (stop snickering right now), it went something like this…
Like thousands of other Yankee Magazine subscribers, I begin each read from the back inside page. I am a great admirer of Edie Clark, and for seventeen plus years, Edie has written a regular back-of-the-magazine column, first “The Garden At Chesham Depot,” now “The View from Mary’s Farm.”
I met Edie last Thursday, when she gave the keynote speech at the Northeast Kingdom Chamber of Commerce‘s annual meeting. I introduced myself, we chatted, I showed her my checkbook. (That’s another story for another time) Edie’s speech was in great part about what she learned writing the story that appears in the current issue of Yankee, “Along The Border.“ It’s about the border (and everything else) that we share with our friends, neighbors and relatives just a few miles to the north, and how dramatically things have changed there (as elsewhere) since 9/11. Like so much she writes, this resonated deeply with me.
On Tuesday morning, Edie called in from Mary’s Farm and we chatted about the current story, the state of the magazine industry and her love for the Yankees. The New York Yankees!
Spend ten minutes with this wonderful writer and then visit her website. If you enjoy her columns, let her know. Buy a book while you’re there. Whatever you choose, it’s a great read.
–SN