Elaine Eike:  

I'd like to say I'm still that crazy girl that grew up in the 50's and 60's in small town Baldwin. I have mixed memories of Baldwin, but now, having lived in the Orlando area of Florida for over 35 years, I remember the beauty of the seasons and the smell of salt air near my home on Eastern Blvd. I was your prototype 60's girl: art major in college, then, left wing politics while living in the East Village and later, lived on a farm in upstate N.Y. with like minded hippies. Had a baby, Zachary, in 1969, and faced with that reality, moved to Florida to be with my parents, who moved there in 1965. I became a born again Christian in 1972! Biggest event of my life, really. I married a Swiss citizen in 1972 and had our daughter, Brynja in 1974. We were married for 17 years. During that time I completed my registered nursing degree. I have now spent 23 years with the same company working as a field Hospice nurse. [I am also an alternative health care practitioner.] It is definitely a calling, and while it has it's stresses I really love the job. I can't say that I am overly ambitious. Maybe it's the anti-materialism of the 60's, I don't know. I live in a comfortable home on a lake in Casselberry. I am now married to Stan, another refugee from Long Island, of the same Norwegian heritage as myself. I am now a grandmother, and live around the corner from my daughter and her husband. My sister Gail lives 2 miles away and my other sister Linda lives in Miami. Would love to hear from people from Baldwin past...I wen...Expand for more