Me & my baby bro, Guy at our aunt Canice's wake, Druid's Hall, Nicasio, June 1, 2012. Photos I thought I had lost when my hard drive crashed, but they were still on a memory card. What you can't hear in this photo is the music. Father O'Sullivan on the tin whistle, Cormac Gannon on the uillean pipes and Neil O"Neill on the guitar. And a young bagpiper to-ing and fro-ing us to and from the church. It was a right grand sendoff. So many family wakes and weddings at Druid's Hall. If you've never seen the ceiling of the Druid's Hall, or St. Mary's church, it's like the inside of a boat. Beautiful woodwork. We are ships sailing to distant shores. OK, so maybe we were two sheets to the wind. What of it? It's an Irish wake. Everything went swimmingly until cousin Dave lit the cherry bombs and the cops came to see what all the fuss was about.
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