A dozen from the class got together today and had a couple of hours of pleasant conversation and reminiscing.
One topic of the conversation was of course —How could it be 60 years already since we left Cretin?
Well, the reunion activities are scheduled for Sept 13 and 14th.
Here is what is scheduled.
Wednesday Sept. 13th— Memorial Mass for 86 deceased classmates at CDH Chapel — 10AM.
Wednesday Sept. 13th— Tour of CDH, the old parts and all the new parts, lunch and mingle with staff and students and each other – 11:30AM until probably 2 or 3PM.
Thursday Sept. 14th— Golf outing (THE CHARLIE) at Highland National, first tee time at 9:30AM. Format is a scramble (Britz Scramble) always fun!
Thursday Sept 14th – ONE CDH Alumni banquet at CDH where the anniversary classes of 1963, 1973 and 1998 are honored—5PM
*Additional info and sign up/registration for each of these events will be sent out in near future.
Classmate Jim Hudak joined us for lunch today at our monthly get-together. He spent most of his career in the Information Technology (IT) space, working as a contract Project Manager and more for larger companies in the Twin Cities. He is retired now and has written a book, SCARLET:Blood and Brillance, a sci-fi novel. It will be published soon and will be available on Amazon. We asked him to send us something we could post on our website and he provided the following prologue from the book –
What would you do to keep your country and its allies alive following a nuclear war?
We designed, built, manufactured, and distributed specific tools for electric power, communications, information storage, transportation, and hunting.
We built the spiritual base for our people to strive to stay alive. To collaborate with each other, no matter what. To be all in! WE ARE ALL IN!
The apocalypse soft started in 2000 CE. War spread everywhere. The West prepared by putting all knowledge on the Lattice and made it available via brain chip implants so everyone had access. We made micro-nuclear power devices, powerful small batteries, small data centers, two-man electric drones, laser guns, and satellites for Lattice communications. Fuel and its infrastructure were destroyed. Nuclear war destroyed cities, followed by 20 years of nuclear winters. Nuclear fallout altered pathogenic DNA and the nuclear winters were followed by centuries of pandemics. We are almost gone. Some of us stayed alive and collaborated, fought the pathogens, and won. But it’s not the only thing that kills us.
This is history. Not a projection of the possible outcome. My knowledge of our history compels me to write it so you know what happened and why. But, who ‘you’ are is unfathomable to me at the present time. Maybe you’re a person. Maybe you’re an artificial intelligence agent. Maybe you’re no one or no thing and this won’t be read. Right now, times up, it appears. We’re done, it seems. The spirit of living remains, if in danger.
This is the story of that spirit.
I am the Lattice.
Jim
James L Hudak
We will publish another post when the book becomes available.
We previously featured Boz in a post about him and his band’s resurgence (click here). Well Boz and friends have released their final album “Ute Creek Eulogy”.
Front Cover
Back Cover
Congratulations to Boz and his band personnel and guest musicians!
Here is the press release –
July 1, 2023
FREELAND RELEASES THIRD AND FINAL ALBUM, UTE CREEK EULOGY, 51 YEARS AFTER FIRST RECORD
Freeland, a six-piece band from Minnesota, announces the release of Ute Creek Eulogy, featuring 17 songs and two bonus tracks, all written by members of this long-lasting group of musical friends, some of whom played in local groups together in the 1960s. The title refers to Ute Creek, a canyon near Idaho Springs, CO, where the band moved in August, 1972, to promote their first record, Headin’ Back. The group played a good number of shows that summer featuring their original music but eventually moved back to their homeland to pursue other musical, educational and career objectives.
Four of the members reunited in the summer of 1975 in a new version of Freeland, focused on Colorado (again) club gigs and cover songs peppered with danceable tunes of their own making. When autumn came, the four took another hiatus for life’s various quests.
By 2005 they were reunited again for a concert at Macalester College in St. Paul to memorialize a fellow musician from back in the day. The good feelings and camaraderie of that performance led to Freeland’s second album, Almost Home, released in 2008. Then, once again, the members went their separate ways for more than a decade.
As the Covid pandemic settled upon the land in 2020, the group started planning for the current collection of songs, but recording logistics were tricky given where the members lived: San Juan Island, WA; Pocatello, ID; Park City, UT; St. Paul; Deer Park, WI; and Nashville. Thanks to jet airliners, home studios, a mobile recording setup in a big van, and the keyboard player’s pro studio in Nashville, work started by mid-2021, with a release date of August 2022 to mark the 50-year anniversary of Headin’ Back.
Life and health being what they are, things fell off schedule, just a little. But today, Freeland is delighted to present Ute Creek Eulogy, dedicated to the memory of Doug Rymerson, who died on the day mixing commenced in November, 2022.
Band personnel
Boz Metzdorf – guitar, harmonica and vocals
Tommy Wiggins – keyboards, guitar, drums and vocals
Steve Keys – guitar, bass and vocals
Jeff Schroeder – guitar and vocals
Doug Rymerson – guitar and vocals
Dave Cushing – drums, bass, guitar and vocals
Guest musicians
Denny Hemmingson – slide guitar, dobro
Ron Rotter – drums
Dan Perry – harmony
Track listing
Chasing Down the Sun (Wiggins)
Picks And Axes (Metzdorf)
Ute Creek Eulogy (Keys)
Earth Medicine (Schroeder)
Music’s for Dancing (Wiggins)
To Be Free (Metzdorf)
Buffalo Gulch (Cushing)
Morning Sunlight (Rymerson)
On Your Watch (Metzdorf)
Storm Bound (Wiggins)
River Dream (Schroeder)
Silver Moon (Metzdorf)
Doing Alright (Keys)
Makin’ Our Way (Wiggins)
Nothing But Love (Metzdorf)
Memories are Songs (Wiggins)
The Song Lives On (Metzdorf)
Bonus tracks – recorded in the 1970s!
Kalah (Wiggins)
Ride With The Devil (Metzdorf)
Ute Creek Eulogy is available from Chili Dog Records, Nashville
