Catherine (Cathy) Lee Eaton, born in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 23, 1950, lived her first eighteen years with her parents, Mary and Cy Eaton. They lived on a cattle farm in an eighteenth century farm house called Arrow Cottage at 626 Houghton Road in Northfield, Ohio. Her grandmother, Margaret House Eaton, divorced from her grandfather, lived in the home starting around 1928. During Cy’s two years in a German prison camp in Germany during World War II, it had been his dream to live in the house and raise a family. He and Mary moved there in 1946 shortly after their first child, Cy was born.
LIVING AT ARROW COTTAGE AND CHILDHOOD
With her older brothers, Cyrus Stephen Wind Dancer (born March 20, 1946) and John Stephens (born August 16, 1948), and her younger sister Elizabeth Farlee (born December 20, 1953), Cathy enjoyed a marvelous childhood, playing outside, swimming, riding at Acadia and participating in horse shows in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the east coast. Hide and Seek, touch football, hunting for crawfish or frogs, playing in the barn, sledding, playing tennis, and inventing games in the pool filled her days. She attended Lee Eaton School for kindergarten in Northfield, Ohio. The school was named after her Aunt Lee who died at 40 having been confined to a wheel chair much of her adult life due to a riding accident.
Their dad took many home movies and often brought home travel films for Friday night entertainment complete with home-made popcorn cooked in bacon grease and slathered in butter and salt. Their mom took them to the Bedford library weekly with a stop at the M&M ice cream store and also first to St. Mary’s Catholic Church and later to St. Barnabus’s Catholic Church. Cathy left the church at thirteen. The Barrett cousins always came for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and the LeFevre cousins came for Christmas Eve. Neighbor friends were the Scottish girls Pamela and Maureen, and the Brown girls, Toosie and Teena. The Mischler Family and later the Carmichael family were family friends. Their dad took each child on trips with him. He took Cathy to New York City when she was six where she was thrilled to go to Times Square, stayed in a hotel for the first time, and was surprised one could walk a few blocks to the grocery store if one forgot a lemon. Later, he took her with him to Williamsburg when he was attending a C&O meeting. In the 1960s, they built a pool with a pool house called “the Chalet” and a tennis court so life at Arrow Cottage was like summer camp.
SCHOOL YEARS AT HATHAWAY BROWN BROWN
Cathy attended Hathaway Brown School (about 40 minutes from their home) in Shaker Heights, Ohio from first grade through twelfth grade, was studious, having to work hard at math, spelling, and writing. For most of those years, she and her best friend, Adele Wick were the smallest girls in their glass. Her mom taught reading and study skills at Hawken School and often drove the girls, but other times, she and Elizabeth carpooled with the Mischler girls. Cathy loved school, especially gym and sports. During her third grade year, she and her classmates repaired dolls, and in fourth grade, they made puppets and gave puppet shows. In fifth through eighth grade, she competed on the Gold Team during gym class. She had to wear an ugly brown and yellow uniform during middle school. In seventh grade, Cathy wrote daily cards to a new girl named Kate Dykema who was often hospitalized with a blood disorder. Their eighth-grade glass went to Washington DC over spring break and had a graduation party at Cedar Point, an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. She attended Mrs. Ford’s Dancing School with Mr. Clancey at a building on Cedar and Fairmount that they called Alcatraz. Every year she had gym daily and always took art. HB carnival was a wonderful time when all the students worked together to raise money for charities. During her junior year for a biology project, with Jen Coppins, she built a glass bee hive and raised bees. To her dismay, she failed her math and French finals her junior year. One highlight her senior year was winning the Raymond Short Story Prize for a story called Annya’s Heritage. Cathy played an elderly character name Adam in As You Like It her senior year. She was vice-president of athletic council and participated on first team field hockey, volleyball, basketball, softball, and tennis. Cathy went to field hockey and lacrosse camp one summer in Maine for a week. Poor Elizabeth had to stay late every afternoon and wait for Cathy to be done with sports. Cathy didn’t date much during her Hathaway Brown School years, but she did go out with Ken Bracey, Dick Lightbody, Peter Greisinger, and Peter Tolles. With Margo McCreary and Ann Worthington, she took a train to New England and visited colleges. Cathy was accepted at Smith College, Jackson College (part of Tuft’s University), Wheaton College, and Skidmore College. Curious, she didn’t even apply to co-ed institutions.
During other summers when she wasn’t riding, she helped painted Arrow Cottage and worked in her father’s office as a secretary. Her best friends were Adele Wick, Ann Worthington, Jane Wierdsma, Margo McCreary, and Missy Marshall. With her parents and Elizabeth, she traveled to Athens, Greece, (taking a cruise around Greek islands), Rome, Italy, and Cairo, Egypt where they saw the pyramids and rode camels. Aunt Dibbie and her children Farley, Austin, and John lived at the guest house for nearly two years. The Barrett children were frequent visitors. She rode with her siblings under an English couple, Ray and Jan Francis, with Julie North, Brooke and Pam Carmichael, Drew Davenport, Leslie and Pam Sayle, and Judy Fogg. Sometimes, they went fox hunting, played polo, practiced at the field where Cy had built cavaletties, a wall, and other fences, or practiced dressage. They all were responsible for grooming the horses and cleaning the tack. However, it was Cy who raised cattle for 4-H and worked at Acadia Farms. Cathy competed at Madison Square Garden when she was ten. A nasty fall at a stone wall with Carol W during an AHSA finals her junior year ended her riding career. Later, Carol W had twins, and they raised the little one, Zorba, until his death. That was the summer they nursed a tiny raccoon named Rocky Bandilito until he was crushed.
FAMILY TRAVELING
After brother Cy ran away to Nashville, Tennessee and changed his name to Seth French, he went to live with Aunt Susie’s family to go to high school during his junior year. Brother John left to board at Kent School when he was a sophomore, and Elizabeth spent her senior year in San Luis Obispo and lived with Cy after he returned from the Peace Corps in Gambia, West Africa. Their father traveled extensively to Russia, Eastern Europe, and later China. Their mom and dad took wonderful trips to German, Italy, and Spain. Cathy and Elizabeth even spent a month living at the Hathaway Brown School dorm while their parents took a trip around the world. During another trip, Toni Dolan, stayed at Arrow with the girls.
The family took ski vacations to Lac Beau Port and Mont Tremblant in Quebec, Ellicottville in New York, and Aspen and Vail in Colorado. They once vacationed in Bermuda and were lucky to attend the world fairs in Montreal and New York City. Cathy spent parts of her summers in Deep Cove, Nova Scotia, (the place of her heart) with her grandfather and various cousins. She worked at Alford Lake Camp in Union, Maine, the summers after graduating from high school and from college.
COLLEGE YEARS
At Smith College, her freshman roommate was Pego Gladstone. Cathy’s mother helped her buy clothes in New York City, pack her trunk and drive her up to Smith. She had mononucleosis as a freshman, and she assumed that her tiredness meant she wasn’t cut out for college. After her plans fell through to major in African Anthropology and spend part of her junior year at Dartmouth and part in Gambia, West Africa, she decided to major in English so she could her improve her writing, speaking, thinking, and reading skills. This decision shaped the path of her career
She spent the summer after freshman year in Leeton, New South Wales, Australia with The Experiment in International Living and traveled around eastern Australia, New Zealand, and Figi with fellow participants. She lived with Frank and Hazel Collins and their children: Jennifer, Jeff, Kevin and Denise. The group toured with Aussies to Sidney, Melbourne, Canberra, and Brisbane. She fell in love with Keith Waters although they knew they’d never meet again. Tom, Jackie, Martha and Cathy rented a car and drove around both New Zealand Islands where Cathy skied on a glacier and they took a boat tour of the Medford sound seeing the beautiful cascades and fiords. They also spent an afternoon touring a Maori Indian village. In their brief 36-hour stay in Figi, Cathy got sun burnt and coral poisoning during a snorkeling trip.
In 1971, she and Elizabeth accompanied their grandfather to Santiago, Chile, where her grandfather was meeting with Salvador Allende in his quest to bring peaceful understanding between communist and democratic countries. Many colleges went on strike protesting the war with Vietnam, and Cathy went door to door and attended protests. Her grandfather encouraged her to be an organizer, but Cathy was shy and needed to balance academics with protesting. Unlike classmates, she did not take option to skip final exams or final papers. During her sophomore year, with Elizabeth and her parents, she visited Bucharest, Rumania; Budapest, Hungary; Istanbul, Turkey; and Bathurst, Gambia, West Africa, where her brother Cyrus was a Peace Corp volunteer. They danced on the Gambian II, drank palm wine, and braved the mosquitoes having not taken malaria pills beforehand.
For four years at Smith, she lived in Northrop House, studied hard, and played intramural tennis, field hockey, soccer, squash, volleyball, and basketball. Her good friends were Gail Bongiovanni, Betsy Dice, Michel Johns, Karen Kell, Karen O’Neil, Mary Lee Clemmons, and Sue Higgins. She often visited her brother John at Dartmouth on weekends for football games, skiing, or companionship. She dated Rick Greenberg from 1972 to 1975. In 1971, with Cyrus, Elizabeth, Margo McCreary, Ben Hatch, and Rob Lord, she camped across the United States from Northfield, Ohio to San Luis Obispo, California. One highlight of the trip was camping in Colorado and inner tubing down the South Platt River.
EARLY TEACHING
After college and a summer as a tennis/photography/riding counselor at Alford Lake Camp in Union, Maine, Cathy spent a year studying education at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, student teaching English courses at Cleveland Heights High School, and living at home on 626 Houghton Road in Northfield, Ohio, with her parents and John. They carpooled. The following year she accepted an internship at St. Paul’s Boarding School in Concord, New Hampshire, where she taught fiction writing, an interdisciplinary English/history/religion course, and coached soccer and tennis. It was hard being only one of four female teachers; coaching and teaching six days a week, and having dorm duty every other night. She dated Rick Greenberg. During the summer, she studied photography at Kenmore Square and lived with classmates of Rick. She had to take two buses and the subway to get to Kenmore Square.
In 1974, she moved to a triple-decker apartment at 1058 Capitol Ave in Hartford, Connecticut, and lived with Barrie Silver the first year and on the third floor by herself the second year. Her housemates were Maureen and Pat Hearn. She taught high school English for two years at Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, Connecticut and coached soccer, basketball, and assisted with a cycling and rock-climbing group. After two years of struggling with an unsupportive department head, her contract was not renewed, and her teaching career seemed to be finished. She began contemplating other careers.
GRADUATE SCHOOL, MARRIAGE, AND MORE TEACHING
During her first summer of graduate school in 1975 at Bread Loaf School of English in Ripton, Vermont, she met Michael Murphy at Texas Falls. They both studied American Literature with Dick Broadhead their first year, and in later years studied Shakespeare in Vermont and at Lincoln College at Oxford University with John Wilders. Cathy played tennis, and Michael played softball. They moved in together in a small cabin on Lake Garda in Burlington, Connecticut in 1976. Ironically, Michael was hired to replace Cathy at Kingswood-Oxford. Unemployed, Cathy wrote a family history based on letters her parents and siblings had written.
After a summer at Bread Loaf, Michael and Cathy married on August 27, 1977, at Arrow Cottage in Northfield, Ohio, with sixty witnesses at their informal outdoors ceremony. A harpist and flutist played. Her mother and Aunt Dibbie cooked lasagna for the rehearsal dinner, and Hough Bakery catered a steak, corn on the cob and baked potato dinner with strawberry shortcake for dessert. The scorching hot day invited guests to jump in the pool when they weren’t playing tennis or volleyball. She and Michael spent their honeymoon at Deep Cove with her grandfather, which was her last time visiting him there.
Next, she taught a year at the experimental school Westledge in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she taught seventh grade and high school English and coached field hockey and softball. The following year, she taught high school English and coached softball at Loomis-Chaffee School, a boarding/day school in Winsor, Connecticut. Good friends were Suzanne Nolan, Wally and Daryl Wilson, Ben Duke, and Lud Baldwin. Cathy learned to cross country ski.
Cathy and Michael had four fabulous summers at Bread Loaf in Vermont and another two at Lincoln College, Oxford, England. In 1980 they were assistant directors of the program at Lincoln College. They traveled to Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and throughout England, as well as spending ten days in Paris at Jackie Donevan’s apartment. In addition to studying Shakespeare, they attended many productions at Stratford on Avon and in London. They typically camped or stayed in B & B’s and drove a mini. One highlight was tracking down and purchasing a concertina for Jim Fawcett. Playing strenuous squash and playing tennis on grass courts allowed them to eat heartily at the meals in the Great Hall (think Harry Potter). Particular friends were Chuck Henry, Ray Byrd, Lisa Shelby, Kim and John Niles, and Lou Bernieri.
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS AND STARTING A FAMILY
Once Michael was also let go from Kingswood-Oxford School by the same man (Warren Baird) who terminated Cathy, they moved to Cleveland Heights to 3975 Randolph Road, and Cathy taught seventh grade at the girls’ school, Laurel School in Shaker Heights for two and one-half years. She sponsored the fourth school literary magazine and was co-homeroom teacher with Nancy Smekal. It was fun to share ideas with her mother who taught at Hawken School.
Cathy and Michael spent many happy weekends with her parents in Gates Mills, Ohio. In addition to playing tennis and cross country skiing, they often played bridge. Cathy joined a co-ed soccer team. With Michael, she played indoor volleyball. They bought and repainted the interior of a brick classic side entry American Colonial four-bedroom house on 3605 Washington Blvd. in Cleveland Heights. They took vacations to the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico with Gail Bongiovani, and took road trips to Tampa, Florida, to visit Ann Worthington. Good friends were Rob and Judy Herbert, Jeremy Foy, Nancy and Jim Smekal, Chuck and Jan Miller, Bill and Jane Forbes, and Doug Ripkin. Cathy was ‘best man’ at Jeremy and Liz Foy’s wedding on Martha’s Vineyard.
Cathy stopped teaching in November when Colin Eaton Murphy was born on November 26, 1982. She worked part time for her father as a secretary at Terminal Tower and taught a summer short story course at Hathaway Brown School. Devon Eaton Murphy was born on September 3, 1982. Being new parents was fun: taking Colin to gymnastics or swimming, jumping in the leaves, listening to stories at library story time with Dibbie Barrett, building snowmen, playing racquetball, and spending weekends at Annie and Papa’s in Gates Mills. Cathy took Colin to California to visit John’s family when he was two. They loved eating raspberries from the garden, going trick-or-treating in the neighborhood, and playing with Seth Smekal, the neighbor kids, and Doug, and Jane Wierdsma Forbes’ son.
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
In March, 1986, the family moved to a classic contemporary home built into a side lot on 105 Kimberly Knoll in Asheville, North Carolina with living room/kitchen/dining room on the first floor and bedrooms downstairs. Cathy took courses at University of North Carolina - Asheville to keep her teaching certificate current and also taught two courses a semester at the university. She played racquetball regularly and was very involved with Children’s Grammar School, Rainbow Mountain, and Jones Elementary School where Colin and Devon attended: wonderful experiential learning schools. Cathy began the ten-year odyssey writing Curse of the Pirate’s Treasure. She and Michael traveled to England for a business trip, and the family drove to Florida to visit Aunt Helen in Naples and Ann Worthington in Treasure Island. The family often visited Cathy’s parents (Annie and Papa) first in Gates Mills, Ohio, and then at Moreland Courts in Shaker Heights. Particular friends were the Bates family, David and Melanie West, Betsy Ervin, the Dameron family, the Kelly family, Mary Haadsma, and Marie and Jay with son Mark, Hobie Ford’s family. Colin and Devon hung out with Simon, Wes Gibson, Mary and Patrick Dameron, the four Bates’s kids (Emma, Hannah, Mathew, and Nora), Hannah Muerdter, Nolan and Meg Morris, Austin Glenn, Quinn Wardin, Courtney and Regina (children of neighbors Mark and Maura). Adventures included Sliding Rock, sledding at Grove Park Inn golf course and down our driveway, playing on home-made swing set, performing plays, multiple school field trips, Easter parades, music camp, going to play grounds, swimming at the JCC and at the YWCA, and hanging out at the racquetball court where I played league racquetball. Colin loved story-time at the library. Michael traveled extensively (sometimes two weeks a month) and played golf with his colleagues at Revco Scientific in Weaverville. We were close to Jenny Wing, Lorena Burke, Mary Gibson, and Marie Barker, the kids’ teachers who also often baby-sat for them. Cathy took Colin to Mount Shasta with Papa to visit Elizabeth’s family. She and Michael took the boys to Naples to visit Aunt Helen, Annie, and Papa.
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
In 1992, they moved to 626 Wintersweet Court in Annapolis, Maryland, where Cathy taught grammar and writing at Anne Arundel Community College. Special family friends were the Todds: Al, Teresa, Travis, Austin, Spencer, and Skylar. The family always spent a week or two at Conway Lake, often with Wally and Daryl Wilsons and children Connery and Ben. Cathy and the boys did long road trips in the summer from North Carolina to Maryland to Massachusetts to New Hampshire to Ohio and back to North Carolina. They had a tree house in the backyard and walked daily to the next-door school. Rollerblading on the bike trails was fun. The kids played soccer and baseball. Cathy’s parents visited as did Elizabeth and her three kids, Michael’s brother Stephen, Gail Bongiovanni, Chip Dickson, and Paul Raso.
BEDFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE
After moving to a four-bedroom center hall colonial on 3605 Joppa Hill Road, Bedford, New Hampshire, Cathy taught Fiction Writing, Literature, Mindful Communications, and Freshman Composition as well as running the Writing Center for twenty-three years at NHTI-Concord’s Community College. In 2009, she received a sabbatical for fiction writing and spent the summer at Bread Loaf School of English. Highlights at NHTI involved working on a grant for creating a course on literature bridging cultures and using mindfulness and meditation. Cathy began and built a Writing Center and mentored many wonderful adjuncts: a true learning supportive community. Her office mates were Diana Levine, Craig Cushing, and Paula Delbonis-Platt. Each semester, Cathy created a spiral bound book of over 100 pages for each course as well as publishing all her fiction writing students. She worked on a three-year grant on Nathaniel Hawthorne with faculty from Massachusetts. Her focus was women, native Americans and African Americans in Hawthorne. Typically, Cathy visited Ann Worthington in Treasure Island every spring and her siblings in Ashland, Oregon, or Santa Rosa, California every summer. Cathy and Michael also did a few trips with Gail Bongiovanni and Ev Nissley to Bald Head Island and Squam Lake.
Additionally, she traveled frequently to Moreland Courts and then Kendal in Oberlin, Ohio, to visit and assist her parents. Cathy was blessed to visit Annie, Papa, and Millie frequently and help them through the last months of their lives. So much laughter, learning, and love. How she misses them but keeps them in her heart. She has written a family history and shared their lives through memories and photographs. Two stories she wrote capture pieces of the end of their lives: “Dress Rehearsal for Dying” and “You Can’t Help Yourself.”
She spent a week with Colin at Montana State University in Bozeman, and a week doing a writer’s retreat with Karen and Herald Jenson near Seattle, Washington. Cathy wrote four original short stories a year. She revised and self-published Curse of the Pirate’s Treasure in 2003 and a short story collection, Snags and Spills, in 2013. Cathy gave readings at elementary and middle schools on Curse of the Pirate’s Treasure and talked about the writing and publishing process. Thirteen of her stories appeared in magazines, and her story “Raggedy Slippers” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. With the help of Gail Schilling and Erica Neveu, Cathy submitted and. published many stories to magazines. She spent a semester working on flash fiction with Jane Hunt. She also compiled all of her stories in a collection called Three Decades of Writing and created a fiction website. In 2015, she was the recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence. Particular school friends were Dawn Higgins, Paula Delbonis-Platt, Kris Lucas, Dan Huston, and Dave Edwards. Cathy took yoga with Tom Sherman, Pilates, core and more with Liz Durant at NHTI, played tennis, cross-country skied, and kayaked often. Cathy and Michael enjoyed many fun dinners with Liz Duck, Jan and Jeff Brown, Betsy Rocha and Jeremy Foy, Susan and Bob Murphy, Cathy and Jon Leer, Robyn and Scott Pollock, Mimi and Pete D.
Most summers the family went to Conway Lake, sometimes with the Wilsons, often with the Todds, always with Richard Christensen. They had fun holidays on Nantucket with Adele Wick, Rick Miller, and their four kids: Doug, Pat, Charlie, and Lizzie. Life revolved around Colin and Devon, their sports (soccer and track), their friends, and family get-togethers with Annie and Papa or Millie, Stephen and Carolyn. Winters found us skiing. All night proms, parties at the house, track meets, soccer games, visiting colleges, graduations, and even Legos kept us busy. We typically had Navaho Tacos with the Christensen’s every Christmas. Learning to rock climb and one sky diving adventure kept Cathy on her toes. Moose Murphy Dog Wonder filled their lives with joy for ten years, and Trixie, another Jack Russell Terrier, kept them company and encouraged walks no matter what the weather. The family flew to Colorado and drove to Utah for Richard and Jess Christensen’s wedding and also spent a long weekend rock climbing at Acadia National Park.
THINKERS LODGE: VOLUNTEERING AND RESEARCH
In 2010, Cathy and her best friend, Adele Wick, traveled to Nova Scotia, and Cathy began a history project interviewing people behind the scenes at Thinkers Lodge in Pugwash. Vivian Godfree suggested people to interview. Firefighters, wait staff, chefs, landscapers, construction workers, conference drivers, people who billeted conference attendees, teachers, people who met Yuri Gagarin or her grandfather or who attended conferences were among the 60 people interviewed. As the project expanded, she published documents, interviews, and photographs on Thinkerslodgehistories.com. In the summer of 2013, Cathy, John, and Elizabeth all worked at Thinkers Lodge. Starting in 2013, Cathy stayed at Thinkers Lodge where she gave tours, mentored the interns, interviewed people, set up for fund-raisers, volunteered for Canada Day, planted flowers, cleaned the Lobster Factory, bar tended, and attended yoga. She purchased bookcases and moved all the books to the second floor to create a library. Her particular friends are Vivian and Jeremy Godfree, Louise and Richard Dittami, Sally and Maya Filmore, Teresa Kewachuk, Greg and Noreen Smiley, Margaret Eaton, Mary Jamieson, Rhonda, Thelma Colbourne, and Paolo and Sandy Brenciaglia. Kayaking on the river or on Northumberland Strait and frequent swims energized her. She began spending two to five weeks in Pugwash and also returned to Deep Cove several times where she swam across the cove and kayaked up and down the cove. The beloved cabin at Deep Cove burned down in November 2015. Cathy felt very blessed that stayed in the cabin in her grandfather’s bedroom and got to go a boat ride with Hazel’s son-in-law Stephen and grandson Evan Densmore and zoom past all the islands and Chester. She always visited Connie and Brent LeBlanc and Mabel Schnare and stayed with David and Mieke at the Century House in Blandford. In 2017, the family drove to Parsboro to see the play Pugwash based on the 1957 conference of nuclear scientists, the children of Pugwash, and her grandfather. The focus in Pugwash is peace. Staying at Thinkers Lodge, a national historic site, was a gift that Cathy treasured. Cathy and Michael toured Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island in 2016 and 2017.
RETIREMENT
In 2016, Cathy retired from teaching and began working on learning DSL photography as well as Iphone photography and editing via tutorials and online courses. She created a photography website and submit weekly work to a 52-week photography challenge. She even created videos for Thinkers Lodge and her Oahu trips. She traveled with her sister Elizabeth, Dawn Higgins, and Elizabeth Cleveland to Oahu, Hawaii. In spring 2017, she and Michael did five and one half week road trip south. In autumn of 2017, they went to Pugwash for Climate Change Conference. Then in January 2018 they celebrated 40thanniversary in Oahu, Hawaii with Al and Teresa Todd staying at time share courtesy of a generous gift from Stephen and Carolyn. For over twenty-five years she has been an active member of the Cyrus Eaton Foundation and after Ray Szabo retired, she became president and also created their website. On her trips to Cleveland Heights, she continues to do research on the Pugwash Conferences and Cyrus Eaton at the Western Reserve Historical Society. Typically, she stayed with Lissy and Hank Gulick or Jim and Nancy Smekal. She helped coordinate her 50th high school reunion and created a website for it. Cathy has gone to every Smith College and Hathaway Brown reunion that convene every five years.
WRITING AND PUBLISHING
In 2018, Cathy published Thinkers Lodge: Its History and Legacy, a culmination of her interviewing staff that worked at Thinkers Lodge, researching the Pugwash Conferences and people involved with the peace initiatives to eliminate nuclear war. In 2018, she began working with the Centre for Local Prosperity with the goal of drawing down our carbon imprint and reversing climate change.
EXERCISE AND THE FUTURE
Exercise continued to be central to Cathy’s life. Whether, she is kayaking on Lake Massabesic with Liz, swimming at Baboosic Lake with Mimi, cross country skiing at Legacy, doing yoga with Tom, rock-climbing with Kris Lucas or Devon, playing tennis with Debby Cogan and the Bedford Meet-Up group, taking Pilates classes with Liz, or walking with Mimi, Susan, and Jan, Cathy relishes playing outdoors while working on her balance and strength. In 2018, she and Michael joined the YMCA in Goffstown, and Cathy fell in love with Pickle Ball and began doing Zumba Core and Step and Sculpt.
Cathy and Michael love visiting Colin, Nicole, and Devon and sharing their adventures and work. (Updated March 19, 2018).