CADDY FOR LIFE
The Bruce Edwards Story
Chapter One
The Reunion
TO BE IN NEW ENGLAND on the first Saturday in September when the Red Sox are in a
pennant race, when college football is beginning again and the first hints of
fall are in the air, is to be about as close to heaven as one can come while
still on earth.
On just such a day in 2003, on a morning when the sky was brilliantly blue and
the temperature at sunrise was in the low 60s, a far-flung family gathered at 416
Brenda Lane in Franklin, a Boston suburb about twenty-five miles southwest of
Kenmore Square and Fenway Park. Jay and Natalie Edwards had driven from their
retirement home in Vero Beach, Florida, stopping in Annapolis on the way to spend
a little extra time with their daughter Chris, her husband, John, and their two
children. Chris, the oldest of the four Edwards children, is, like her husband, a
retired Navy veteran. After Jay and Natalie continued their drive north, Chris
and her family flew into Boston on Friday night.
Brian, the second son, and his wife, Laurie, had the longest trip, coming ... read full excerpt from Caddy for Life ebook
