The Connecticut River Oar and Paddle Club has always tended to produce moments like the one pictured below: not great feats of oarsmanship, most people face their moments of valour in the daily challenges of work and family. This is an escape, to places where the sun shines warmly on the whispering trees and glimmering, vernal waters.
As the unusually mild New England winter of 2011-12 fades into springtime's burgeoning bloom, we turn our attention once again to thoughts of small adventures on our great and salient estuary. This is a time to gather the weathered souls and youthful boats of the Oar and Paddle Club together for another run at nature's rhythmic purpose; the art of being through the act of doing.
To this end, a stepped up communications campaign will be engaged in under winter's last shadows, with the widest possible net cast and the input and thoughts of members across time added to the mix. From there, a formal and re-commissioning meeting will be held, for which details of time and place will be forthcoming. Besides ideas for future gatherings on the river under oar and paddle, longer range plans will be discussed. And, there is the need to do routine work on the CROPC boats, which will require a small amount of time, space, and materials.
Input and ideas for CROPC may be directed to: jonpersson7@gmail.com
These may be published on future postings of the CROPC blog. Meeting notifications will be emailed, and listed at this blogspot (www.CROPC.blogspot.com).
