Father of the Man Author Dr. Peter Colman

The conversation on that plane was the first of many correspondences over a period of several months. He continues to send me new chapters, and I continue to read, forwarding comments and helpful suggestions. Strangely, I have become a willing traveling companion in Mr. Colman’s (I don’t know him well enough to call him ‘Peter.’) fascinating odyssey to retrieve the missing, fragmented pages of his personal story. The source and inspiration of his compelling quest, I later discovered, was to understand his own colorful history, and to seek some path of reconciliation with a father who had been effectively absent for most of his life, one he had only recently come to know during a few extraordinary days before his father’s death.

When I returned home from my Boston trip, I found an envelope in my mailbox from Mr. Colman. I neglected to mention that I had actually flown into the Manchester airport on that earlier trip and driven the one hour to Boston. No one likes flying into Logan these days, especially if you actually live and work in Boston; many travelers are flying to Manchester because the airport is considerably less congested, and it’s only a stone’s-throw from I-93.

The envelope contained the following brief letter and account:

Dear Mr. Bachelor:
Greetings. I trust that you had a safe, productive trip to Boston. As I recall from our brief conversation on the plane, I am compelled to express how very grateful I am for your willingness to indulge an old, itinerant New Englander in search of a story. Thanks! I am also deeply appreciative of your willingness to read my manuscript. I hope you will find it enjoyable, engaging, and not too terribly tedious, as such stories customarily tend to be. I shall make every effort to make this particular story an exception.

I thought it would be helpful to fill you in on a bit of my own personal history, some too personal, I’m afraid, so that you will better understand where I’m ‘coming from,’ and help you understand some of my intrinsic idiosyncrasies, one of which is the tendency toward verbosity! In any case, to help prepare you for the chapters to come, I have composed a brief (?) preface to my personal account. I hope you will not find it to be unbearably boring…

Again, thank you for kindness. I look forward to receiving your impressions and critical comments.

Cordially,
Peter Colman




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