{"id":1681,"date":"2010-03-02T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/02\/remembering-chuck-brumley-1940-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T09:02:00","slug":"remembering-chuck-brumley-1940-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/02\/remembering-chuck-brumley-1940-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Chuck Brumley: 1940-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/brumley-704350.jpg\"><img style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 76px;height: 100px\" src=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/brumley-704346.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>Chuck Brumley and I had what I like to think of as a Blue Moon friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Moon is a cafe and meet-up spot in Saranac Lake.<\/p>\n<p>If you sit there long enough with a cup of coffee your head will explode with interesting conversations and encounters.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck wrote commentaries occasionally for North Country Public Radio, but some of his best dish came in the form of quick asides and observations.<\/p>\n<p>He had a hand in a hundred different things and was passionate about most of them.  Here&#8217;s a small excerpt from the remembrance in the <a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/511453.html\">Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chuck&#8217;s more serious and longer-lived pursuits included various construction projects, from banjos to rustic cabins, and for most of his adult life he led and\/or played in jazz, folk, bluegrass and rock bands, variously playing trombone, banjo and bass. <\/p>\n<p>He taught history for a time at North Country Community College in the Adirondacks, and he served on the boards of libraries and charitable and environmental organizations. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to writing the first book-length history of Adirondack guides, Chuck himself became a licensed guide and started his own Adirondack tour company.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Maybe the thing Chuck and I shared most was our absolute love for Saranac Lake, a village that adopted us both. <\/p>\n<p>(Chuck arrived in 1984; I didn&#8217;t turn up for another 15 years&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being uniquely, even thornily himself, Chuck was also part of the woof and weave of this mountain town.<\/p>\n<p>Now I guess he becomes part of that beautiful, organic not-here-but-still-here energy that happens uniquely in small, tightly-knit places.<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/newstopics.php?tid=70\">here and you can hear Chuck&#8217;s voice again<\/a>, talking about the things and the places that he loved.  <\/p>\n<p>If you have memories of Chuck, feel free to comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Brumley and I had what I like to think of as a Blue Moon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}