Janice Long:
CLASS OF 1968
Lane High SchoolClass of 1968
Charlottesville, VA
Janice's Story
OK, so I wrote a bunch of stuff in the "Timeline" section of Classmates - but they've discontinued it. Good thing I save drafts - now I don't have to feel badly about not sharing!
September 1, 1975, to July 1, 1977. Lived in Arlington and worked in DC at Capitol Hill Club, adjoining National Republican Club, as banquet manager during Ford's administration and unsuccessful run against Carter.
Got married at the club, but it only took for a year and a half! :o)
July 1, 1977, to March 31, 1982. Life in the Big Apple!
I lived in some dramatically different-from-each-other addresses in NY - 55th St between 8th and 9th Aves, 76th St between Central Park West and Columbus, and last, Madison Ave between 37th and 38th. LOVED NY! I worked at Restaurant Associates HQ in Times Square, then as Asst Director at La Brasserie in the Seagrams Bldg, then Banquet Director at Lincoln Center - awesome. Loved Lincoln Center work to death, but it worked me to death! I stepped out of management in Fall, 1979, sublet my appt, left everything there and took off on "sabbatical" to work my way across Canada and down the west coast of US. Montreal, Banff, and Vancouver were very cool, but Seattle I still love to this day. (and that's where my Canadian working papers finally came through...) I stayed in Seattle until August 1980, and went back reclaim my NY apt and my stuff. Stayed in NY one more year, tending bar in La Trattoria, Pan Am building, and working the US Open at Flushing Meadows in 1980 and 1981, and meeting my second husband, George, only months before I relocated to Seattle, as I had planned to do! Well, George came out to Seattle to visit, and we got married 1/7...Expand for more
/82. By February, we were back in his apartment in NY, figuring exactly where we were going to start our new adventure, me as a business owner/operator, he writing the books he wanted to write. All we needed was a place just like Seattle, but on the east coast...hmmmm.
April 1, 1982, to March 18, 1990 â life on the New England coast.
New husband George and I picked Camden, Maine, out on a map and went to investigate it. Not only did we fall in love with Camden and the area, we found out what we'd do there once we spent the night in a little bed & breakfast inn! We bought a 100+-year-old house with a barn at the foot path up Mt Battie, and bordering on the state park there. Lots of sweat equity and some professional contractors converted the barn to 3 guestrooms with 2 baths, so with the three extra bedrooms and 2 extra baths in the house, we opened our bed & breakfast (Swan House, still open!). After selling that business, we manufactured our own ice cream for a roadside stand, later a parlor, we bought with partners (Miss Plum's Ice Cream - closed down around 2001, I think).
My best Christmas present ever was first child, Brian, born Dec 20, 1984. George and I separated maybe 2 years later and another best gift ever, son John, was born in 1987.
The off-season in Maine is most of the year, so I learned lots of "trades" and did professional painting, papering, and furniture refinishing at least as much of the time as I worked at Miss Plum's (George and I had sold our half to our partners). In March, 1990, I moved with the boys to Virginia Beach. My parents had retired there years before, and I was happy to have family there for the boys as they grew.
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