Barely time for the snow to melt off the roof

2 Forest Avenue, Old Greenwich, listed at $2.795 million two weeks ago and under contract today. Very, very nice owners, who Greenwich will miss. Rita was a classmate of mine back in Eastern and Greenwich High — she survived the rather dreadful Herr Rudolph Oblum’s German classes and went on to become a beloved (there’s that overworked term again but apt in this case) German teacher at the high school; I pursued other endeavors.

(Barely) Related: How dry, humorless, and truly awful was Herr Oblum to study under? I came across this partial article written by him in 1960, and it captures the man perfectly, instantly transporting me back to Greenwich High School, 1970 and dreading another agonizing hour in his classroom: