George Harvey’s life was celebrated by about 100 family, friends, and fellow fly fishers this afternoon at the Stackhouse School at Fisherman’s Paradise. George Harvey’s granddaughter led off with a poem by her grandfather. She was followed by several of Harvey’s friends, colleagues, and pupils who recounted stories of fishing trips or personal encounters with the “Dean of Fly Fishing.” At 2:15 a bagpiper in full Scottish regalia summoned the crowd outside to the banks of Spring Creek. To the strains of Amazing Grace from the piper, the granddaughter and Joe Humphreys scattered George Harvey’s ashes on a riffle near the footbridge to the hatchery. The piper continued his plaintive tune and slowly walked upstream as the crowd thinned out and a light rain began.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Celebrating a Fly-Fishing Life
George Harvey’s life was celebrated by about 100 family, friends, and fellow fly fishers this afternoon at the Stackhouse School at Fisherman’s Paradise. George Harvey’s granddaughter led off with a poem by her grandfather. She was followed by several of Harvey’s friends, colleagues, and pupils who recounted stories of fishing trips or personal encounters with the “Dean of Fly Fishing.” At 2:15 a bagpiper in full Scottish regalia summoned the crowd outside to the banks of Spring Creek. To the strains of Amazing Grace from the piper, the granddaughter and Joe Humphreys scattered George Harvey’s ashes on a riffle near the footbridge to the hatchery. The piper continued his plaintive tune and slowly walked upstream as the crowd thinned out and a light rain began.
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