Since 2009 I have had the pleasure of being a member of the Chesapeake Boyz book club. The group has been fairly steady in membership,10 to a dozen of us. We are old guys broadly spread politically but tied together by boats and the Bay.
Over time some have moved to Florida and one has passed on to the big book club in the sky. We have a core of members from the beginning and some new old guys along the way to bolster our ranks.
The attraction is not so much the books as the comradery, opportunity to discuss worthy issues raised by the read and generally solve the problems of the world, at least in out minds.
For the past year and a half we have done our almost monthly meetings by Zoom. In May, with COVID on the decline, we had our first in person gathering, a raft up of several boats in Whitehall Bay.
Today we had our first since COVID gathering at our of our homes. This is more our norm and it was nice to get back to same. And, since it was on a nearby creek, I got to go by boat!