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August 17, 2005
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Will Brown’s obituaries will be filled with well-deserved tributes to his work as a conservationist, a Democratic political activist and a Dunbarton town official. He was a public servant in the best sense of the word, firm in belief, gracious in behavior.
For all that, my best memory of Will has nothing to do with politics or conservation. Nor does it pertain to his many quiet, well-reasoned letters to the editor, which he always carried in by hand. Rather I remember the time I saw Will leading a group of developmentally disabled citizens in a sing-along at the Concord Community Music School. This was four or five years ago, so Will was in his mid-80s.
Peggy Senter, the school’s founder, was leading three of us from the Monitor on a tour. She showed us the new rooms where instructors taught prodigies and thumpers alike how to improve their playing. We stood in the wings of the former church sanctuary while chamber musicians practiced.
Then Peggy led us into a large room where a cacophony of voices was singing “Row Row Row Your Boat.” There at the front of the room was Will Brown, mouthing the words loudly and making rowing motions with his arms. It was a late autumn day, and Will wore his trademark flannel shirt, buttoned to the top, and red suspenders. Madonna-like, he had a microphone clasped to his head.
Some of the people in the room sang lustily, in tune and out. Some leaned and lurched and tried to figure out how to follow Will’s lead. And some sat silent, lost in their own worlds.
The song changed to “Old McDonald.” With great animation, Will flapped his hands beside his head like donkey ears or mooed like a cow. He had a deep, hoarse voice, and he seemed not to have a self-conscious bone in his body. His whole purpose was to cajole his audience to sing along.
I took this lesson from Will’s performance that day: One secret to a long life is to stay active even as your physical abilities decline, to set aside the inhibitions that grow like barnacles with age and to seek out good works that need doing.
It’s hard for a community to lose a Will Brown, but if others follow his lead, he stays with us.
Posted by Mike Pride at August 17, 2005 01:48 PM
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