Larry changed my life.  He was my Elementary School bus driver (and a friend of my grandfather who also drove a school bus after retirement) and I sat in the front seat right behind him.  One day, in the mid 1980s, he saw that I had a book about Dracula movies and struck up a conversation about it.

For the next 3-4 years, I talked to him about movies on the way to and from school.  Every day I looked forward to those chats.  Larry taught me everything about cinema, and I was astonished at all the films, both old and new, that he had seen.

Larry, more than anyone else, is the reason movies (and other forms of artistic expression) have been my passion for over 40 years now.  His gentle, affable spirit allowed him to impart his knowledge to me in a way that my young mind could understand.  But he gave me the straight scoop, never sugarcoated...he respected my burgeoning intelligence.

In 2003, I ran into Larry at a pizza shop in Dartmouth.  He remembered me instantly.  We had a wonderful conversation in which he wholeheartedly recommended I watch films by the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.  I told him I had already seen 3 or 4 films by the director and he seemed very pleased.

I would not be who I am today without Larry.  I'm 100% certain of that.  He truly was the man who introduced me to the arts, and a personal journey that is ongoing.  I've never met another man like him, and I don't believe I ever will.

LARRY meant a great deal to me in our time of friendship.  Though, through these later years, we saw little of one another, I will remember with great fondness of what we once shared, Garrison St. in particular one such memory.  You were always a unique person with great talent. 

Until we meet again as I believe we shall,

Maurice

Dartmouth Funeral Home

Lawrence Gilson

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Lawrence Lincoln Gilson

29 diciembre, 1935 – 20 julio, 2020

Waring-Sullivan Dartmouth Funeral & Cremation Service

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