Great anecdote, thanks for sharing. One of the greatest joys of my present life is remembering little incidents from my childhood. Funny how you never forget some things that were of little or no consequence.
Dom,
You know, "Quentin's Theme" really
does sound like the kind of music people would skate to at an ice skating rink. I can envision couples skating together and rounding the rink at a slow and elegant pace to the sound of Robert Cobert's lilting and haunting music.
Come to think of it, perhaps many of the residents of the mythical village of Collinsport, Maine
were avid ice skaters? Certainly, in a cold weather state like Maine, ice skating must be a popular recreational pasttime.
One of my friends in college was from Minnesota and I remember him telling me that ice skating was extremely popular in his home state. (I'll bet that Kathryn Leigh Scott must have been a keen skater, when she was growing up out there in Robbinsdale, Minnesota.)
Anyway, wouldn't it have been cool to have seen some of the Dark Shadows regulars, hitting the ice at the local ice rink, or, perhaps, at a nearby frozen-over lake?
No doubt, Maggie, Joe, Sam, Chris, Tom and Amy Jennings, Sheriff Patterson, Tony Peterson, Bill Malloy and Bob Rooney were all accomplished skaters.
Do you think that the eminent Prof. T. Elliot Stokes might have laced on a pair of ice skates for a late afternoon's skate to unwind after delivering a two-hour lecture at his university? (And, would the good professor be wearing his trademark monocle as he glided along the ice?)
And, what about the patrician Collinses, would they be avid ice skaters as well? I can certainly see Carolyn and David enjoying a spirited skate on a brisk and cold Maine winter's day. However, I just can't envision the top-lofty Roger Collins, deigning to be seen skating with the "common folk" of Collinsport .
As to Carolyn's former boyfriend, Buzz Hackett, I see the "Buzz-man" as more of a roller skating fan, where he could shake his "groove thing" to the sounds of a disco version of "Meet Me at the Blue Whale" at the town's local roller skating rink.
And, what about the man himself, Mr. Barnabas Collins, do you think he also hit the ice (at night) , dressed in his trademark Inverness coat and brandishing his wolf's head cane? (Perhaps Dr. Hoffman was chasing right after him on the ice, with hypodermic in hand, intent on giving her patient his latest injection?)
Bob, who hasn't hit the ice since high school , many, many years ago!