[at-l] Andover Guest House

[agaudet at theworld.com (Arthur Gaudet)]

Last Tuesday, July 1, Richard aka Pegleg, who ran the Andover (Maine) Guest
House passed away suddenly. Evidently he had an asthma attack during the
night and suffered a heart attack as a result. 3 AT hikers with medical
training worked on him and revived him once, but for only a couple of
minutes. The EMT's arrived sometime later (Andover is quite a distance from
Rumford, the closest hospital center).

I was visiting Andover on Saturday and the family members were at the wake.
I think the funeral was yesterday. The in-law that I talked with stated
firmly that the plan is to continue operating the Guest House for the hiking
season. Pegleg's wife wasn't available to talk and my contact was a
son-in-law (I think) who was getting his training from the hikers staying at
the house. He's planning to stay the month of July to help out.

Arthur aka RockDancer