NEDERLAND — Doug Armitage lost the violin his great-great granduncle carried when he fled Nazi Germany escaping Hitler, and John Thompson lost the connections he could make with out-of-towners who thanked him for suggesting the perfect place to hike or snowshoe.
Jeffrey and Susan Green lost the wall of mugs they gave the first 50 people to drink 50 of the beers they brewed on site from their recipes, and Diana Underhill lost the candles and bowl full of aspirational sayings on the altar she’d been adding to for more than a decade.
And Michael Camarata, who as Nederland’s family physician had given countless tetanus shots and high school physicals to kids who are just a bit more wild than average, lost a portrait of famous jazz musician Joe Bonamassa a patient had given him, and a two-volume textbook he bought for $1,000 as a medical school student in 1988 called Andrews’ Diseases of the Skin…