[TheForge] Roger Duncan

[Andy Vida]

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> 
> Forwarded to theforge by Bruce Freeman:

> You mentioned seeing him a few weeks ago, full of energy and very much
> himself. He was that way up to the very end, as he died of a snap heart
> attack helping a friend work up firewood on a beautiful Maryland
> Saturday morning. He will be missed by many.

	Never met him, but you have my sympathies in any event.

	Look at it this way, he went about as well as anyone can
	ever expect to go, doing something he liked doing on a
	beautiful morning.  Beats the pants off of going in misery
	in a bed, surrounded by sad and miserable people.

	Life's a strange thing.  We get to feeling so strong at times,
	yet we go in an instant.  One of our fellow smiths just had his
	brother killed in Portland the week I was in NJ.  Car went
	out of control, went off an elevaterd exit ramp on I-5, landed 
	upside down and that was all she wrote.  We did a little
	wrought-iron-scrounging-as-therapy while he was here.  Found
	a top tool in a conglomeration of rusted wrought iron on the
	river.  Hot hardy as far as we could tell.  Small consolation,
	but better than nothing, I suppose.

	Speaking of which, we also found some serious amounts of wrought
	iron cable.  Never knew they made cable from that material, though
	I suppose it makes sense.  Now I have to go gather it all up. :)