March 13, 2012. Western Head, N.S. Marsh.

Marsh is always on the go.  He comes to dinner at his cousin Walt's house and leaves five minutes after dinner has finished.  He is not at all rude.   He is just ready to go.

Marsh is a retired attorney who lives in Halifax.   His area of expertise,  when he worked,  was title problems.   He worked for the province sorting out issues that arose when  properties were passed down for hundreds of years without ever coming for sale.   Over the years  we would see him at Mary and Walt's home for dinner or other celebrations.   He knows a lot about who owns what and where along the coast and the rivers, so I am always picking his brain.

He is one of the nicest people in the world and also one of the most energetic.  Since his retirement, he takes several trips a year,  often with friends but often alone.  He has never married but often travels with one woman or another.   His Mother died when he was very young and he was raised by his father, who married again unsuccessfully after Marsh was at University.    So Marsh is single.   He is active in his church and active in the Icelandic Society of Nova Scotia.   He was kind to an old lady at his church and often picked her up for church or took this old lady out for dinner, because he thought she was poor.  He helped her with chores around the house, just because he was single and could have the time to be helpful.  The amazing part  is that the poor lady was not poor and when she died she left Marsh quite a lot of money, which astonished him.  He denoted half to the church and now that he is retired, he travels here and he travels there.

It is a nice story and he is a nice man.  He is one of those people that you would like to get to know better.  But he is always on the go.