Wonder if it was from smoking (yuck!) or chewing (double yuck!!).

Rick Sussman
Wooddbine,MD


BTW, his white beard was heavily 
obacco-stained.  Yuck!







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From: pobrien776 <>
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Sent: Thu, Mar 11, 2010 12:28 pm
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Canada Geese on the move


Interesting.  My grandfather used to see Walt Whitman riding the bow of the 
amden-Philadelphia ferry, sometime in the 1870s.  It seems he got his 
nspirations from ferry rides.  BTW, his white beard was heavily 
obacco-stained.  Yuck!
Paul O'Brien
ockville, Mont. Co., MD
On Mar 11, 2010, at 12:18:51 PM, "Leo Weigant" <> wrote:
From:   "Leo Weigant" <>
ubject:    Re: [MDOSPREY] Canada Geese on the move
ate:   March 11, 2010 12:18:51 PM EST
o: 
   All these reports prompted me to remember that
   ~ somewhere in the 1850's ~ Walt Whitman, riding the
   Brooklyn Ferry, looked up and expressed almost exactly
   the same feelings we've been sharing as he watched them
   and heard their "wild ya-honk" cries in the evening light.
    We are not alone.
    Leo Weigant

On Mar 11, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Gail Mackiernan wrote:
> These dramatic goose and swan flights make me think -- how many  
 people in
 the DC area heard these geese and looked up? Some folks have gotten so
 removed from nature that they not recognize (or perhaps, even hear)  
 what to
 our ancestors was one of the first harbingers of spring.

 Gail Mackiernan
 Colesville, MD

 on 03/11/2010 8:40 AM, Carol Jelich at  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Tuesday afternoon, March 9, the Canada geese on Quarter Creek, off  
> Wye
> River, were very vocal.  Around 5:30, late afternoon, they began  
> to rise up,
> circle,
> and form lines, heading north.  As I watched them begin their fly  
> away, I
> could see far, far above, other lines of geese headed north that  
> had started
> from elsewhere.  Wished them godspeed and safe return next
> year, a very moving sight!
>
> Carol Jelich
> Queenstown, Maryland