An adventure with lasting impact...
By GAIL LOWE There was nothing out of the ordinary that might have suggested a major quake was about to rock the earth — not a slight tremble, not a falling rock, not even a gut feeling. Only the animals may have known what was coming. But there was that bit of rain the day before the 7.8 earthquake struck Kathmandu, Nepal. In hindsight, it unnerves Richard (Richie) Pittenger, who grew up on Lincoln Street in Melrose, to think that he and his companions may have been in the thick of it, that they may have been among those who lost their lives. The quake on Saturday, April 25, destroyed not only thousands of homes, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless but claimed more than 8,000 lives and injured more than 19,000 people. Pittenger, 34,...
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