Training Log Archive: bl

An evening visit with Per Stensby (and his son Per Olla) at Granite Ledges in Concord. I visited Per in June. Today’s occasion was in part to pick up 72 WOC ’93 mugs that Per had for a quarter century at various homes, the last being New London. And Sara Mae Berman had asked that they be made available for fund raising. I am a go between. Per’s son is back and forth between NH and mid-coast Maine and we arranged this rendezvous. ONA had a timely WOC article that I took with me, along with a still-sealed WOC men’s classic course and a compass. Per’s memory has failed. I knew that in June. I wondered if these orienteering memorabilia might strike a chord.

Sitting in the lobby of the assisted living facility, about to enter the memory-loss unit, and looking at the WOC course and ONA article with Christmas music in the background was indeed a step into the past. Per, 87, was fairly good about some details. We had a nice visit & it was fun to meet his son, too.

A mug in hand (that hadn't seen the light of day for many years).