Walker’s Reunion in Maine!

A few weeks ago when I knew that Nancy and Karen were coming to Maine I reached out to my other Walker’s friends in Maine and invited them to lunch so we could have a mini reunion. Amazingly most of them could come (Lilea, I still hope to see you.)

At first I thought I would surprise Karen and Nancy, but then I thought the fun of knowing and getting to anticipate it would be better so I told them about it. This also helped me because they were happy to be my sous chefs.

This morning we enjoyed coffee (well, I had tea) before I put them to work chopping the many vegetables we needed for the giant lunch I had planned. Julie Williams Wagoner was coming and she is vegan so I designed the menu around her, with cheese and chicken additions on the side.

We had farro, lentils, caramelized onions and lemon salad, then orzo, cherry tomatoes, artichoke hearts, kalmata olives, dill and feta salad, and finally raw zucchini, Fennel, green pea, basil, and mesclun green salad with a salty sheep’s milk cheese and chicken. Karen baked a lemon blueberry cake that was a big hit.

Warren was the first to arrive, but not without incident because our lane was blocked by fire engines and I had to tell him how to get hear by driving down a different lane and driving across my neighbor Evelyn’s grass. She came out to see what had happened and was very gracious. I will be inviting her to dinner next week to thank her for that kindness.

Julie arrived next from Bath, and then Dinah Bortz Moyer who took the ferry over from Vinalhaven and showed up with a boat load of gifts. Jamie Kyle Sapoh came late from Northport, due to some tardy workmen. So we did not get one picture of all of us together since Dinah had to leave just as Jamie was getting here.

Nonetheless It was great fun to all be together representing the classes of 1977-1980, plus Warren who was head of admissions from 1977-1981. It was a perfect day on the porch of our little house, eating lunch in the sunshine and laughing as we did some 50 years before. The friendships we made as girls at Walkers are very strong.

It was sad that we only had a lunch all together, but Nancy, Karen and I had a great time rehashing the events of the day and then went right into a big Yahtzee tournament. We took a dinner break when Russ finished working and we went to Claws with Shay for dinner. It was a practically perfect day in every way.