Yesterday I noticed
that the song I had chosen for Day 26 (today) was called “26 Miles (Santa
Catalina),” a song about an island 26 miles off the coast of southern
California. And suddenly it dawned on me: we have actually BEEN to Santa Catalina! Fortunately, some years ago I had organized
many of our old photographs into file boxes with cards marking the dates and
events, and I was able to find some pictures from that trip back in the summer
of 1990. I was able to confirm what I recalled: the annual meeting of the
American Statistical Association was in Anaheim, California that August, and we
spent a day with Simmie and Dina on Catalina as a side trip before the meeting
started, during which Barry spent a couple of days with them at Disney Land. Here
are a few pictures of our daughters and me from that trip.
In 1958, the song "26 Miles" by the Four Preps hit number 2 on the Billboard charts. The main theme of the song is summed up in the last line in the refrain, calling Santa Catalina "the island of romance." The island has just one incorporated city, Avalon, which appears in the phrase “in a noisy bar in Avalon I tried to call you” in Crosy, Stills and Nash’s 1982 “Southern Cross.”
26 Miles (Santa Catalina) (The Four Preps)
I have only one CSN t-shirt so today I’m sporting a shirt from the Carole King and James Taylor 2010 “Troubadour Reunion Tour.”
Love,
Rebecca
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