The arrivals hall at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sept. 3, 1971, was teeming with people. Among the crowds was 24-year-old Linda Ford, clutching her suitcase, her life about to change forever.
But right then, in that exact moment, Linda wasn鈥檛 aware she was on the brink of something. Right then, she simply felt 鈥渞ather weary.鈥
Linda was in JFK ahead of starting a year鈥檚 teaching post at the City University of New York. She was excited to continue her academic career, to experience a new city 鈥 but relocating across the Atlantic was daunting.
Linda knew no one in the United States. While she鈥檇 left her home in southeast England before 鈥 she鈥檇 spent a stint as a postgraduate student in Paris researching the French Revolution 鈥 New York City felt particularly far. The transatlantic flight was the longest she鈥檇 ever taken. Linda landed, severely jet-lagged and more than a little apprehensive.
鈥淣ew York is a wonderful city,鈥 Linda tells CNN Travel today. 鈥淏ut it鈥檚 a bit fearsome for someone who hasn鈥檛 been there before, a woman on her own.鈥
But Linda was searching for someone in the arrivals hall: George Porter. He was pretty much a stranger 鈥 a man she鈥檇 never met 鈥 but he was a friend of a friend who鈥檇 agreed to meet her off the flight.
Linda knew next to nothing about George. But after the mutual acquaintance linked them up, they鈥檇 exchanged a couple of transatlantic letters. In Linda鈥檚 note, she detailed exactly what she鈥檇 be wearing when she arrived at JFK 鈥 figuring that information would help George track her down.
鈥淚鈥檒l wear a pink and white top, paired with beige-coloured trousers,鈥 she wrote.
鈥淚 have absolutely no idea what I鈥檒l be wearing,鈥 replied George.
Linda arrived in New York City 鈥渋n precisely the clothes I described.鈥 At the airport, she glanced around, searching the throngs of people. Then her eye landed on two men, standing side by side, both looking at her expectantly.
One was tall, dark-haired, with a moustache and a smile on his face. The other was a dashing employee of Air France, wearing an airline uniform.
鈥淎re you Linda Dean?鈥 asked the dark-haired man. He had a Southern U.S. accent.
Then the second man said hello. He had a French accent.
Linda looked from man to man, bemused.
鈥淚 was in the rather strange position of arriving at a very busy airport, in a country I鈥檇 never visited before, and being met by not just one, but two very nice young men,鈥 Linda recalls today.
The dark-haired, moustachioed man 鈥渨as George,鈥 Linda soon realized.
The Air France guy was the wild card. This was Jean-Claude, another friend of a friend who she鈥檇 never met, also there, unexpectedly, to greet Linda. Jean-Claude was married, it turned out, to the cousin of a girl Linda had known in Paris.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 recall exactly how he had found out that I was arriving on this flight, presumably he had the means of looking it up. But he had gone along to meet me as well,鈥 recalls Linda. 鈥淗e was a very charming Frenchman.鈥
Jean-Claude, when he realized George and Linda had a preplanned arrangement, bowed out, saving Linda the awkwardness of choosing between two airport guides.
鈥淭his potentially rather confusing situation was very amicably resolved,鈥 says Linda. 鈥淕eorge would escort me into New York.鈥
So Linda and George bid farewell to Jean-Claude. George took Linda鈥檚 bag. And they set off into Manhattan together.
Like Linda, George Porter was also a New York City transplant. He grew up in a small town in Arkansas and moved northeast to work as an architect.
New York in the early 1970s was an 鈥渆xciting place鈥 and there were 鈥渁 lot of new things happening鈥 to 27-year-old George.
But even as he revelled in the city and all it had to offer, George felt New York would be more fun 鈥渢o share with somebody.鈥
鈥淚 just hadn鈥檛 found exactly the right person to do that with,鈥 George tells CNN Travel today.
An old friend from high school in Arkansas connected George with Linda 鈥 this friend was dating someone in Linda鈥檚 extended circle in Paris. She wrote to George, and asked if he鈥檇 meet Linda at the airport on Sept. 3, 1971. In her note, the friend told George a little about Linda 鈥 describing her intellect, her ambition, her sense of adventure.
鈥淟inda seems like the sort of person that I might end up liking quite a lot, because I really like intelligent women,鈥 says George.
鈥淚t seemed like a fun thing to do,鈥 recalls George, who adds he was also 鈥渇ascinated with the idea of someone from England, from Europe.鈥
At JFK, he looked out for young blonde women who might be Linda, ruling them out when they weren鈥檛 in the requisite pink and white top. Then he noticed Jean-Claude, the Air France employee, also approaching women and also asking if they were Linda Ford.
鈥淪o then we realized that we were both waiting for the same person,鈥 says George.
When George first saw Linda walk through the crowds towards him, he was struck by her right away, thinking she was 鈥渞ather good-looking.鈥
Linda, for her part, thought George 鈥渟eemed very charming.鈥
And despite the surreality of their airport meeting 鈥 and the Jean-Claude of it all 鈥 Linda and George felt an instantaneous comfort around each other. Together, they boarded a bus into the city towards Linda鈥檚 temporary accommodation in midtown. It was evening, and Linda was exhausted from travelling, so George left her to rest up 鈥 but not before asking if she鈥檇 like him to give her a New York City introduction the following day.
Linda agreed, so on Sept. 4, 1971, she and George walked the length and breadth of Manhattan together 鈥 talking, sightseeing, getting to know each other.
They realized, as Linda puts it, that they had a 鈥渟imilar outlook on life.鈥 They were both 鈥減olitically and socially aware,鈥 she says, and 鈥渢here was some sort of natural gravitation.鈥
George loved seeing the city that had captured his heart through Linda鈥檚 eyes. It was clear Linda was quickly becoming enamoured with New York too.
鈥淚 remember, in the evening, driving in a taxi to the theatre through New York City, looking at all the skyscrapers lit up,鈥 says Linda. She recalls being 鈥渃aptivated.鈥
鈥淲e both were very much captivated by New York City,鈥 says George. 鈥淲e absolutely loved it.鈥
George and Linda were also captivated by one another. The days rolled into each other, and they continued to spend every moment they could together. George took Linda on the Staten Island Ferry 鈥 not to visit Staten Island, but rather to admire the spectacular views of the city鈥檚 skyline from the water.
鈥淚t鈥檚 just a wonderful way to get a feel for the island of Manhattan,鈥 says Linda. 鈥淭hen, later on, probably not that first weekend, but not long after I鈥檇 been there, we took a boat trip that you can do that goes all around the island, and takes you past the Statue of Liberty.鈥
Linda and George鈥檚 romantic connection, 鈥渏ust happened,鈥 says Linda. 鈥淎nd quite quickly, I have to say, as well.鈥
About a week or so after Linda鈥檚 arrival in JFK, Linda and George shared their first kiss in George鈥檚 apartment one evening.
鈥淚 think if you share interests, and you have a fairly outgoing personality, which we both do, then things just naturally grow from it,鈥 says Linda.
鈥淎nd I mean, George was very good-looking 鈥 he still is. But he was. My friends at home were dead impressed, as you can imagine.鈥
George and Linda fell in love against the backdrop of a buzzy, 1970s New York. They wandered the city鈥檚 museums, went to the theatre, relaxed in Central Park, and walked the streets hand in hand.
The first month Linda was there it was hot and humid, but October was 鈥渂eautiful.鈥 As the leaves on the Central Park trees turned bronze and gold, Linda and George grew closer.
Meanwhile, Linda settled into her university job 鈥 the commute was long, but the work was interesting and rewarding. She found an apartment on Third Avenue in Manhattan, sharing with two new friends, Penny and Patty.
Meanwhile George lived downtown, in an apartment he calls 鈥渘ot the world鈥檚 best鈥 鈥 home not only to himself, but plenty of cockroaches and an old waterbed left by the previous hippie tenant.
New York wasn鈥檛 the counterculture epicentre it had been 10 years before 鈥 鈥渘ow all the hippies were on the West Coast,鈥 says George.
鈥淏ut New York actually, in some ways, was a bit more authentic, just a place where a lot of things were happening,鈥 says George. 鈥淚t was a very, very exciting place at the time.鈥
About six weeks after Linda鈥檚 arrival in New York, Linda鈥檚 father came to the city on business. Linda was pleased to have an opportunity to introduce him to George.
鈥淚 said that George had been taking me around and we were enjoying each other鈥檚 company,鈥 she recalls. 鈥淚t was nice for them to meet quite early on in our relationship.鈥
Then, when Christmas rolled around, George invited Linda to spend the holidays with him and meet his family.
Linda was just about getting accustomed to New York City by then. The small town in Arkansas was another culture shock, but to Linda, it was fascinating, with its 鈥渧ery beautiful scenery, mountains and pine woods, and all that and lakes.鈥
George鈥檚 parents welcomed Linda happily 鈥 they were excited to see their son so content, and were fascinated by Linda鈥檚 tales of life in the U.K. George鈥檚 mother proudly told her friends the young couple were 鈥渆ngaged to be engaged.鈥
George and Linda batted those comments away, but it was true they saw a future with one another. Accordingly, in spring 1972, they moved in together. They loved waking up each day in the same small apartment, and spending long evenings out and about in the city.
But there was a time limit on this happiness 鈥 Linda鈥檚 work visa only permitted her to stay in the U.S. for a year. Her period in New York had a definitive endpoint.
That鈥檚 how the conversation about marriage first started. There was no big romantic proposal, but to George and Linda, the moment still felt romantic simply because the decision to commit was so obvious to them both.
鈥淲hen you meet someone that you have very similar interests and outlook to, it does occur to you that maybe it would be sensible to spend the rest of your life with them,鈥 says Linda.
Here's George and Linda on their wedding day. (G. Porter and Dr. L. M. Porter)
Linda and George flew back to the U.K. to get married in summer 1972. Their wedding took place in Sevenoaks in Kent, England, where Linda鈥檚 parents lived. It was a small celebration. Linda鈥檚 wedding dress was inspired by a design she鈥檇 seen in a magazine in New York, made by someone locally in the U.K.
Linda says the wedding day felt like 鈥渢he fulfilment of a year of having gotten closer to each other.鈥
鈥淚 was as excited as could be,鈥 says George, but he adds that he thought of the wedding day as more of a 鈥減ublic commitment.鈥
鈥淚 think we鈥檇 made private commitments to each other before that,鈥 he says.
鈥淵es, we had,鈥 agrees Linda.
Newly married, Linda 鈥 who took George鈥檚 name, becoming Linda Porter 鈥 returned to the U.S., once again landing in JFK airport. It was less than a year since she鈥檇 first met George in the busy arrivals hall. Now they were walking through the airport together, starting a new chapter.
Linda and George moved into a new apartment in Manhattan, on West End Avenue between Riverside Park and Broadway. They threw lively parties, inviting friends around into the early hours of the morning. They still loved New York. They went out to the theatre, watched concerts and whiled away afternoons in art galleries.
Then, in 1975, Linda and George welcomed their daughter, who spent her early years as a New Yorker, until in 1979, the family moved to the U.K.
This decision was influenced by a number of factors. For one, Linda felt her academic career had stalled, she was still part-time and wasn鈥檛 sure where she鈥檇 go from there. Meanwhile the city of New York was broke, as George recalls it, so architecture jobs were suddenly few and far between. Plus, George and Linda weren鈥檛 sure about bringing up their daughter in the city 鈥 but also didn鈥檛 fancy relocating to the suburbs of New Jersey.
鈥淲hy don鈥檛 we try living in the U.K.?鈥 suggested George one day. And so in 1979 they packed up their life, shipping their most treasured belongings across the Atlantic and relocated to Linda鈥檚 parents鈥 hometown of Sevenoaks, where they鈥檇 got married.
George was excited to experience life in the U.K. 鈥 and his mother, rather than balking at her son relocating across the Atlantic, was delighted.
鈥淪he absolutely hated New York City,鈥 says George. 鈥淏ut she was quite enchanted with the southern part of England.鈥
Upon moving back to the U.K., Linda left academia behind, and worked a corporate job for 22 years.
But later, when her daughter was grown up, Linda returned to her first love 鈥 research and writing. She鈥檚 since written five history books 鈥 focused on British Tudor History 鈥 with her sixth set to publish in June 2024.
George and Linda loved throwing parties. Here's one of the innovative ways they sent out party invites. (G. Porter and Dr. L. M. Porter)
George and Linda, now in their late 70s, still live happily in Sevenoaks in the U.K.
Meanwhile their now adult daughter is married with two teenage girls and living in Switzerland. Linda and George are proud of their international family.
鈥淚f your parents have come from different countries, it鈥檚 not so alarming to you, necessarily, to move somewhere else,鈥 says Linda.
The family reunites when they can 鈥 sometimes in the U.K., sometimes in Switzerland, and occasionally on vacation elsewhere in the world. It鈥檚 been some years since Linda and George made it to the U.S., but a few years ago, Linda and George鈥檚 daughter took her children to New York, and they retraced the footsteps of their grandparents' first meeting.
This year, Linda and George will celebrate their 53rd wedding anniversary.
鈥淧eople often assume there is some sort of secret to it,鈥 says Linda of their decades of happiness.
鈥淚 think in our case, it鈥檚 a combination of having similar interests, but also rather different backgrounds, which can produce a positive kind of tension, if you like.鈥
Linda adds that marriage is 鈥渁 journey.鈥
鈥淎nd like all journeys, sometimes it has twists and turns, but the end is always that you are together,鈥 says Linda.
鈥淚鈥檓 very grateful for that,鈥 agrees George, who adds that long marriages encompass many different phases.
鈥淚鈥檓 nearly 80 years old, I鈥檓 not like I was when Linda first saw me,鈥 he says, although he still has the moustache.
鈥淭here have been a great long number of transitions 鈥 I would tend to say our marriage has never been the same from one year to another. It鈥檚 constantly evolved.鈥
But throughout the years, across the phases and transitions, a stalwart of Linda and George鈥檚 marriage has been the 鈥渟upport鈥 they provide for one another, as George puts it.
Looking back on their airport rendezvous five decades later, and the series of serendipitous events that led to their meeting, Linda reflects that she鈥檚 not a great believer in coincidences. She and George both feel 鈥渓ife is what you make of it鈥 and are big proponents of the importance of 鈥渇ollowing your instincts鈥 and committing to making something work when it feels right.
Still, the couple still chuckle when they recall Linda stepping onto U.S. soil for the first time only to find two men waiting for her in JFK arrivals.
鈥淛ean-Claude was very pleasant,鈥 says George, laughing. 鈥淏ut I was the one who ended up with her.鈥
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A six-year-old girl who was reported missing in northern B.C. earlier this week remains unaccounted for, and "significant resources from across the province" have joined in the search, police said Saturday.
A pair of runaway pigs are in the custody of an animal sanctuary in the Okanagan after evading police and volunteers for hours earlier this week.
The Red Bridge, a historic landmark in Kamloops, B.C., was completely destroyed by fire early Thursday morning.
Animal protection officers in British Columbia have rescued three pit bulls 鈥 including one that gave birth to 10 puppies 鈥 from a rat-infested home in Kelowna.
Despite the heavy rain, plenty of muscle turned up for United Way鈥檚 annual Pull the Bus fundraiser in Lethbridge Friday.
Lethbridge County has rescinded its fire restriction as a result of the recent cool, wet weathr.
The Lethbridge Hurricanes kicked off the 2024-25 season on a winning note Friday night, defeating the Edmonton Oil Kings 3-1 in a game played at VisitLethbridge.com Arena.
A northern Ontario man is facing a $12,000 fine after illegally shooting a moose near the Batchawan River.
Following an outbreak of COVID-19 on its continuing care floor and just ahead of the flu season, St. Joseph鈥檚 General Hospital in Elliot Lake has opted to re-introduce a universal masking policy until further notice.
A 26-year-old driver from Surrey, B.C., has been charged with three counts of criminal negligence causing death and bodily harm in a crash that killed two youths in northern Ontario last year.
Newfoundland and Labrador sponsored a minor football team in England, now they鈥檙e about to play one of the biggest clubs in European soccer.
Newfoundland and Labrador's chief medical officer is monitoring the rise of whooping cough infections across the province as cases of the highly contagious disease continue to grow across Canada.
A 16-year-old biennial event aimed at fostering business in the country's eastern Arctic and northern regions has been cancelled indefinitely as a dispute unfolds between Inuit in Canada and a Labrador group claiming to share their heritage.
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