Posted By:
Steve Parcell
Category:
General
Like most of us, I have a personal story that got me into this. I grew up in Simsbury, Connecticut, in the 1960s and 1970s. My father died tragically on May 11, 1974, at the age of forty-seven while on a family canoe trip. While we were attempting to navigate through a series of bridge pylons, our canoe capsized and the whole family was immersed in the frigid spring waters of the Farmington River. Although the stated cause of my father’s death ...