Remember Big Nick
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Nick Nick Robertshaw
This site is a wiki, which means you can easily leave information here. We encourage you to add your memories to the Guest Book, add pages, edit pages, and contribute your photos or videos. We want to learn as much as we can about our amazing friend. To learn how to do this, see 'Housekeeping', below.
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A Life Celebration Service for Nick
Attendance!
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In addition to this wiki site, memories of Nick are also being collected here :
by email: RememberBigNick@gmail.com
or send send photos to: photobucket.com/login (Username: NickRobertshaw_photo password: friends)
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This poem was written by Dave Smith who is a long-time friend of Frances (an inventor, author, and cabinet-maker). Dave is helping Terry and Frances winterize Toad Hall--the lovely old growth forest and 1700's stone cottage near Allentown where Nick had planned to live and where some of his ashes will be scattered. Terry placed this poem on one of the tables displaying Nick's interesting creations:
Nick of time
-attributed to Mary Frye
Do not stand at my grave and weep
not sleep. sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
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Stories of Nick's professional life from Frances Page Glascoe
Memories of Uncle Nick by Clare Robertshaw
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Sheila and Alan Willis remember their brother-in-law.
Stories of Nick's professional life from Frances Page Glascoe
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Sheila and Alan Willis remember their brother-in-law.
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Here are a few selected videos from the celebration of Nick's life.
Linsdey Robertshaw speaks about his brother.
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Memorial Songs
Selected Videos
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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone
H. Auden Auden adapted by Sheila Willis and Terry Robertshaw
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
the coffin, let the mourners come. memories, all his loved ones.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
nothing right now can ever come to any good. good.
However, we shall see stars again,
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A Tribute to My Little Brother
by Lindsay Lindsey and Anita Robertshaw
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A Tribute to My Little Brother
Anita Robershaw Robertshaw
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At practice, Jim Besser and I played the interregnum as best we could. Audiences won't know it, but it's not the same.
Memories of Nick
I was a friend at Preston Manor (secondary school) to 1970 and for a few more years before we both moved on.
I recall Nick taking the lead in the Taming of the Shrew, a gangly Petruchio and swashbuckling acting technique is revealed to the public, clearly the potential Russell Brand of his time. I had a]]>
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mysticism, that that at least his lovely spirit lives on in all of us -- what "after-life" may truly mean.
--Frances Glascoe, East Berlin, PA
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I remember meeting Nick and Thomas at a Party. They both were very friendly individuals. When I left that party I knew I had just made two of the most fabulous friends I would ever have. I would drop in from time to time and Nick would come out to the barn and hang out with all of us and listen to Thomas spin. Nick would always greet me with a Big Nick Bear Hug. There was something so comforting about his hugs.
About two or so years into Thomas and my friendship we began to date. Nick, Terry and Thomas welcomed me into there lives with open arms. It was like I had always been a part of there family.
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August 31, 1951 - October 29, 2007
Remember Big Nick
Please join us to remember
This site is a wiki, which means you can easily leave information here. We encourage you to add your memories to the Guest Book, add pages, edit pages, and contribute your photos or videos. We want to learn as much as we can about our amazing friend. To learn how to do this, see 'Housekeeping', below.
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A Memorial Life Celebration Service for Nick
A Sincere Thank You for Everyone's Participation and Attendance!
Please upload your pictures of the Memorial Service on this or the Photobucket Site.
In addition to this wiki site, memories of Nick are also being collected here :
by email: RememberBigNick@gmail.com
or
send send photos to: photobucket.com/login (Username: NickRobertshaw_photo password: friends)
In lieu of Flowers please consider a Donation in his Memory.
With an extraordinary passion for life h]]>
remember Nick
Nick Robertshaw
This site is a wiki, which means you can easily leave information here. We encourage you to add your memories to the Guest Book, add pages, edit pages, and contribute your photos or videos. We want to learn as much as we can about our amazing friend. To learn how to do this, see 'Housekeeping', below. _______
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A Memorial Service for Nick
Attendance! Please
Please upload your pictures of the Memorial Service on this or the Photobucket Site.
Links to other content on this site are in the upper right-hand corner; click on 'SIDEBAR'.
In addition to this wiki site, memories of Nick are also being collected here :
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remember
Nick Nick Robertshaw
This site is a wiki, which means you can easily leave information here. We encourage you to add your memories to the Guest Book, add pages, edit pages, and contribute your photos or videos. We want to learn as much as we can about our amazing friend. To learn how to do this, see 'Housekeeping', below.
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A Memorial Service for Nick
Attendance!
Please Please upload your pictures of the Memorial Service on this or the Photobucket Site.
Links to other content on this site are in the upper right-hand corner; click on 'SIDEBAR'.
In addition to this wiki site, memories of Nick are also being collected here :
send photos to: photobucket.com/login (Username: NickRobertshaw_photo password: friends)
In lieu of Flowers please consider a Donation in his Memory.
him. He He loved nature so much and was horrified by the h]]>
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"An evening of music and dancing in remembrance of our friend."
Peter Brown, Kalina, Greg Fabian, and Paul Kalina
Jim Lewis
Morris musicians from Foggy Bottom Morris Men and Rock Creek Morris Women. All evening a giant background screen flashed
images from Nick's multifaceted life.
Morris dancers hopped and gathered and whirled in honor of our big Nick.
Thomas, behind a brilliant psychedelic screen, spinning Electronica in a blast of late-night color, dancing and lights.
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