You’re friends with Howie?
My contact with him was limited to getting a personally autographed book at a bookstore!
Nope...not a friend. But I live near Wellesley and have bumped into him once or twice and I often go to the open shows he does during the summer...for example at Cape Gun Works or Tuck's Trucks.
And,at the trial he and I chatted briefly during the recesses.