A racecallers' homecoming . . .

Today took me to The Meadows for a United States Harness Writers' Association meeting, and as a result, a view of the work-in-progress that is their new grandstand.  The last I had been there, the old grandstand was still intact, I had yet to be at Chester, and I was still toting a tape recorder and Crayola markers in the grandstand's top row.

Before the meeting, Roger Huston pulled me aside and asked me if I wanted to call a couple races on today's card.  And even though the old grandstand has been replaced by a construction site for the new plant, and horsemen were the only people in attendance live, it was an absolute thrill and honour to call a pair of races at my old home track.  It truly was good to be home, even just for the day.