We’ve received the first two of Elizabeth Leete’s Ashfield remembrances, beginning with her wedding to her husband Gurdon in 1963. She describes the occasion, which was held at the home of Ernie Wyatt in colorful prose. Ernie was pretty colorful himself; Elizabeth characterizes him as “an iconoclast, womanizer, drinker, leftist, anarchist even, retired sailor.” Ernie re-did his house on Town Farm Road to make it look like a ship - port holes and all.
In her second piece Elizabeth reminisces about acquiring her home, “Blueberry Hill,” in Apple Valley (found by Ernie,) and some of the people who figured in her life then: Donald Graves, Ted Howes and Cecil Bolton. We're looking forward to many more of her memoires.
This is one of many sorts of contributions we hope a growing number of people will make to the Ashfield History Project, always enriching the texture of the Ashfield story.
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