Lee Craig:  

CLASS OF 1968
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Annapolis, MD
Baltimore, MD
Annapolis, MD
Annapolis, MD

Lee's Story

In May, 1950, “baby Harrington” was born “out-of-wedlock” in Baltimore. The male infant was given up for adoption to working class parents in Annapolis who named him Donald Lee Craig. His adopted mother loved him. She read to him, taught him good manners and encouraged him in every way. By the end of sixth grade he showed great promise indeed. But, as has been said, promise brings the capacity for letting people down. One’s self not least. By the time he reached tenth grade, adolescence had fallen on him and the marriage of his adopted parents was failing. Confused, ashamed and filled with a sort of grinding desperation, Lee frequently made an ass of himself. He did little else at AHS but graduate. "There is hardly an action we perform in that phase which we would not give anything, in later life, to be able to annul." Marcel Proust In September, 1968, Lee entered Towson State College on a small scholarship. He doesn't recall having attended a single class. He flunked out after one semester. So there he was on his own with no plans and no common sense. Thus far he had shown only a single aptitude above the common—a modest musical ability. As with much else in human life, chance and necessity ruled. For the next decade, Lee worked at performing music. There were ups and there were downs. Meanwhile Lee attended a college class here and another there, higgledy-piggledy, for entertainment more than anything else. Somehow, in 1978 ...Expand for more
he found himself in possession of an English degree from U.M.B.C. By then his so-called music career had peaked and was in decline. Whatever florescence it had once shown, watered only by his indolence, had withered. He still had no real plans but, at age 29, needed to find something soon. Somebody suggested he try law school. Why not? What else? Chance and necessity ruled again. After three years and manifold hardships of which it would have been useless to complain, he was beginning to feel his feet under him. He graduated, passed the Bar and embarked on a legal career. It was not as he had imagined. He was disappointed but to turn back was impossible. So he plowed ahead. Thirty-nine years later he retired. Somewhere along the way Lee Craig had grown up, at last. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste. . . . Shakespeare, "Sonnet 30" He lives now in Treasure Island, Florida. He is married to Bernadette Kennedy from Severna Park. He has no children and doesn’t care for them. Lee has been engrossed by architecture, baseball, boating, boxing, British history, classical music, fine art, fishing, hiking, interior design, jazz, literature, menswear, opera, photography, poetry, popular music, scuba diving and travel. He says “everything is interesting.” He doubts anyone has read this to the end.
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1964 first electric guitar
It was all about the hair.
Springtime, 2022
Treasure Island, Florida
Neist Point. Isle of Skye, Scotland
Prague
Paris
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Haworth, West Yorkshire
My first “professional” band
The frontline of my most successful band
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a pilgrimage
a pilgrimage
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Washington, D.C.
with the Go Go's

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