Patrick Meadows and Stephanie Shepard Memorial Site
Hello, all, Happy 2019! This is an interesting article I stumbled upon while doing some research for a project I’m working on: Why forest bathing is good for your health It’s about “forest bathing”, which is a term I find rather poetic and beautiful. I suppose that’s why it reminded me of Stephanie and […]
Here are some old photos by Cassandra from concerts in the early 1980s or perhaps even late 1970s. In most cases clicking on an image will show an enlarged version of it. JPI’m the son of Patrick of Meadows.
Here are a few more images of Stephanie that I found in Patrick’s files. JPI’m the son of Patrick of Meadows.
Sometimes we are reminded of loved ones at the oddest times and places. Last Wednesday I drove out to Carpinteria to help a friend cut down a dead tree, to spend several hours turning it into firewood and sawdust. With chain saws and rope in the back of my truck, I stopped at a nearby […]
Stephanie’s brother Tate sent this poem to me to share on the site. You can see the handwritten version more clearly by clicking on the images, but the copies are faded so it’s typed here as well. Nobody, nobody at all is going to care when I die. My brother and I were our mother’s […]
Here’s a lovely drawing and note that I received from Stephanie’s brother Tate about Stephanie’s last words.
In addition to Circles, Patrick, Stephanie, and Phil accompanied Lady June in this recording of Loving. Much of this recording is a Lady June poetry recitation, and the audio quality is on the somewhat abysmal side, but perhaps you’ll enjoy the pictures I put to the recording. (Many are re-used from the Circles video.) Patrick, […]
YouTube video of a recording from Patrick, sent to me on 22 Jan 2014, along with the following description. In 1978, before we moved to the House you all know, There was a poetry reading in the French Restaurant. It ended in a free for all between an Irish bagpiper and and Australian poet. Before […]
On 26 July 2018 the Deia International Music Festival will host a special concert to honor Patrick. The concert includes trios by Coleridge-Taylor, Gilchrist, Torrandell and Patrick’s friend Carl Mansker, performed by Suzanne Bradbury (another of Patrick’s dear friends), Eilidh Martin and Tom Hankey. The concert will begin at 9:00 PM and will be held […]
JPI’m the son of Patrick of Meadows.
While seeking a legal document I came across these of Patrick and Stephanie. JPI’m the son of Patrick of Meadows.
Today was a very special day here in Cincinnati, Ohio. We met this afternoon at the cenotaph for Patrick and Stephanie, in the Shepard family plot. In addition to Stephanie’s immediate family (brother Tate, niece Alison and her husband Evan, nephew Carl and his wife Brittany, Stephanie’s son Tim and his family Kelly, Zoe, Nicolas, […]
Here’s a map of Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati Ohio, where the US memorial will be held on 21 October 2017 at 1:00 PM. The cenotaph honoring Stephanie and Patrick will be placed in Stephanie’s family plot. JPI’m the son of Patrick of Meadows.
Sam Jones wrote from the UK about visiting Mallorca over the years, beginning 25 years ago, saying “Mallorca to me has always meant that very special house inhabited by those two extraordinary people” and “All of my friends who met him fell in love with him a little.” Here’s the full letter. Thank you so […]
Here’s a gallery of pictures of Stephanie from over the years. Many of these are from Patrick’s collection but some come from other sources. JPI’m the son of Patrick of Meadows.