Last Waltz

I recently went to a parks’ league softball game where some of the old neighborhood guys (and their sons) were playing. Nothing unusual about that, a long-standing ritual across most of the U.S., except that this was the final game for the White Horse Pipe Company team after 40 years. White Horse won, besting their long-time nemeses The Punks, 11-10. The WHPC founder had died last year, a day after defeating the same team. After the game came the traditional fist-bump.

So ends another chapter of local history with this, the last waltz of a childhood dance, played out on a dusty field.