Greetings, Tweets -

Sad news, indeed.

During the past year Patricia and I accidentally reconnected over some
W.O.S. business. It had been about 35 years; we had a good long
telephone conversation, and an e-mail exchange. Subsequently, and
unfortunately, our paths never crossed in Seattle or Olympia.

I first met Patty, as she was then known, in the early 1970s when we
were both students at The Evergreen State College, and she was living
in a group home on Cooper Point where I occasionally attended the
parties. Our mutual friend, Bill James, writes now from Alaska about
those times, and asked that I post the following to Tweeters...

Patty Lott was a roommate of mine when we both attended Evergreen
State. At the time she was majoring in music and I doubt if many know
that she was a one in ten million talent then. She had a voice with
incredible range and power. We rented a house on the water on Budd
Inlet and when she practiced on the lawn boats that were a mile and
half off shore would come to a halt and then turn in toward the beach
to hear more. Disease took away a burgeoning operatic career. I am sure
most don't know this as she was not one to complain about might-have
beens. She made a sailing trip in the San Juan Islands with me once, I
can close my eyes and hear her voice echoing off of surrounding islands
as she practiced her scales while I was sitting ashore on a hill side,
reading. I still have some old recordings of her singing. I am going to
break out the wine, listen, and get very maudlin.

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Douglas Canning
Olympia, Wash
dcanning at zhonka.net
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