Paul DiNolo died last month — he was 75. He was the only survivor of my hoodlum youth that i still see.
i first met him when he came dow to Easton to play a cheesy little Farfisa electric organ for Richie Salvucci’s band. then, He was only 4 feet tall and wanted to be a 7 foot basketball player. He dated my first wife Bronwen for a while, before and after our marriage We were all good friends- I have asked Bron to comment here too, and i bet she will.
tAll this might well be utterly irrelevant except that hat Paul became a world – class naturalist and a fine rodmaker and fly tyer, who specialized in the small and local ; in his case the tiny brilliant native brookies that lived in the cedar bogs of southeastern Mass and fishing for them with things like 3 weight rod s ( I broke mine unfixably, by slamming it in a door)
a prize winning math teacher and became an expert fly tier in Massachusetts and I believe he discovered two new species that were eaten by trout.
Some pics of the two of us at my sister Karen’s barbecue exist andI i will try to find them
While in Massachusetts, a friend often talked about tiny brooks near his house with 12-13 inch brook trout in them. I think it was near or west of Waltham but I forget.