No better place to be, than at my mother’s side, when I hear the great man, Cronkite has passed.
She had read that Walter recently befriended, as a sailing partner, Mickey Hart– percussionist for our beloved Grateful Dead.
So, at the outset of this worthy media reverie, I am treated to my mom’s best routine about the pair:
“Mickey… Mickey…,” Cronkite intones, “Could you just lay off the wind chimes for a bit?”