Frank McCourt's Parting Wishes

Frank McCourt had some last words before passing on last Sunday; he expressed his wish to have his ashes scattered on the Shannon River in Ireland. The river flows past his childhood hometown, Limerick. This is the place that his book Angela’s Ashes describes in vivid strokes; it is a fine and fitting goodbye. The Shannon is as complex as the writer was, slow/fast, gentle/dangerous, but always fascinating. Farewell Frank.