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Peter Warden Leavitt was born in July of 1949 and grew up on Bryan Road before we moved to the Bluff in 1962. The picture furthest to the left is Peter with dad at Bayley Beach in the late 1950s. The second picture is Peter on his Harley at the Bluff house in the late 1960s. After high school at Kings School in Stamford, Peter started a fiberglassing business that operated out of local boatyards, and then later went into sales for the textile firm, Schumachers, in New York City. He married Sue Weeks from Westport and had daughter Joy and son Chris. By the mid-70s Peter and Sue split up, they sold their house in South Norwalk, and Peter moved with the kids to the Blue Ridge Mountains east of Boone, North Carolina.

Peter bought a cabin on 5 acres in the mountains and began working for the Goodnight Brothers in Boone. Ever since the 70s Peter has worked in various capacities for this company, and currently runs their country ham packaging business. The picture on the left shows Peter’s daughter Joy (tallest) with some younger kids from the Hicks family that lived nearby. Next to Joy is Janette Hicks who took a liking to Peter early on.

Fast forward to 1992 when Becki, Mariah and I visited Peter during a cross-country tour from Palo Alto CA to Woodstock CT and back. By this time Peter was managing a liquor store in Boone that the Goodnight Brothers owned.
 Mariah was immediately captivated by Peter’s charm as you can tell by her expression. In the second picture, Mariah guards the store while Peter counts the money. In the third picture uncle David joined us for breakfast before we said good-bye at Peter’s store. We all suspected that Peter was pocketing the money from the muscular dystrophy donation can at the lower right.

We stayed at Peter’s cabin for the night and found out who Peter had been hanging around with lately.

Peter’s turkey became quite attached to our dog Lickity but the feeling wasn’t mutual. Needless to say, Lickity got no sleep while we were in NC and had ocassional nightmares during the rest of the trip. Becki and Mariah learned to imitate the turkey gobble which kept Lickity in constant fear.

Fast forward to November 2007.
Here is Peter and Janette on their wedding day in Myrtle Beach SC. Janette finally proposed and Peter’s response was “Why didn’t you say so in the first place?” Peter, correct me if I haven’t got this right.