Mountain Scene
May 3, 2021
By PHILIP CHANDLER
An Anzac Day tradition on Queenstown’s Edith Cavell Bridge, started during lockdown last year, was observed again last Sunday when a local bagpiper honoured the World War I nurse the bridge is named after.
During lockdown, Graeme Glass, 68, played the pipes on his Arthurs Point balcony about every second day at noon.
‘‘A few people started noticing.
‘‘Someone up the hill from us came down and had this idea I play on the Edith Cavell Bridge at midday on Anzac Day.’’
After a bit of publicity, he guesses half the Arthurs Point community turned up socially distancing to watch him play the lament,
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