Entirely too many…
Rick Sharpe was a California longwinger of much experience, style, and knowledge. Many of my friends called him a teacher., friend, or both.
Doug Pineo was our master hoodmaker, and his hoods had incomparable style. Somehow they ALWAYS fit. I have one left and I will retire it; no sense in its going down the gullet of a tazi like my Chinese masterpiece!
I will get the falconers’ bios up when I get one of Doug. Meanwhile, many thanks go to Daniel Riviera.
If you asked me, I would say that the late Jerry Lane was Albuquerque’s First Bookman, the Maestro of second hand books and a mentor to many. No trip to the city was complete without a stop at Jerry’s Bookstop, in any of its incarnations. I started going to his bookstore even before I moved to New Mexico.
Once, he roared at me in the store, getting the attention of the other customers, pointed his fingers at me like sixguns and said “THIS would be a man who is in DIRE need of a book muzzle!” He was right.
He was a good Buddhist, though not the slightest bit “holy” or mystically minded; he was always an old fashioned California gentleman.
He did not fear death much. he was pretty tired. But we’ll miss him.
