And so Deane threw an old-fashioned wake. “We invited everyone over to the kitchen, had a cake,
said a few words of memoriam,” he says. “Somebody had made a casket. We carried it outside—we
have a grassy knoll—and we put up a tombstone.” Then they all went back inside to continue the
party. It was remarkably well attended—about fifty people. “When you offer free food and alcohol at
the end of the day, people tend to show up,” Deane says.