A Big Birthday and a Goodbye, All in One Day

Earlier this week, we feted Shore Fire President Marilyn Laverty with a Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory *** party...a complete array of the famed local creamery's day's selection. See below for the before, during and after (an action shot in which Laverty has just "chugged" whipped cream). On a more reflective note, we gathered in the evening to say goodbye to Paula Witt (see her post elsewhere), who has left Shore Fire after six great years to do a bit more traveling, and who knows what else.



(Laverty, Alexis Tedford, and Witt)

***I am reading The Battle For New York, a really terrific book about Revolutionary War battles in around New York, and the city's pivotal role in the conflict. Anyway, near the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory is the site of the ferry landing (still in existence though presumably not the 230 years old one) where George Washington oversaw the evacuation of his army from Brooklyn Heights over the East River to Manhattan in August 1776, a masterpiece of military logistics that is credited with pretty much saving the American cause. Extra side note: a few blocks from our office, at Court St and Atlantic Avenue, stood a hill on which Washington watched the British roll up his Continental troops during a headlong battle towards the Heights!