Father of the Man

Before returning home that day, and at my request, Dad took me to the outskirts of Manchester, on the old Goffstown Road (in the direction of Glen Lake). Just at the fork in the road which led northwest toward the town of Goffstown and Weare, the old Dunbarton Road headed due north to the right, parallel to the Merrimack River.

The original township of Dunbarton and Weare, settled during the day of General John and Molly Stark, went all the way to the river. On the morning of the same day, we spent several hours revisiting and exploring the old homestead (the ancient ‘Eliot or Morse’ house – built in 1822 - at the junction of Morse and Montalona) in Dunbarton. An early picture of the Dunbarton house features three crude chimneys and two towering, but leafless pines standing like tired sentinels with bare, thinned arms ready to defend the lonely, feeble fortress at all cost against no one in particular.

There is a strange similarity between my father’s and my high school, with some minor exceptions, which requires little speculation or imagination to appreciate. To some extent, it amounts to a repetition of history. Can it be construed as mere coincidence that both Dad and I attended the same high school? Not really. No mystery there. It is intriguing, nonetheless, to consider that my father, who grew up in Manchester, would shuttle off to the Pacific theater as a teenager, only to return, move to a remote area of Dunbarton, and gravitate back to Manchester, his only son in tow, and that his son would later wander the same streets (within a matter of block), only to retrace his father’s steps to the same old yellow-brick edifice a few years later.







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