Part six of my ongoing journal entries about life in the time of the 2020 Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Part One (Jan-Mar, 2020) is here. Part Two (April 2020) is here. Part Three (May 2020) is here. Part Four (June 2020) is here. Part Five (July 2020) is here. August 3, 2020 The calendar has rolled …
One of Allie’s buddies in Brownies was a girl named Anna Marie. Barb got to be friendly with her Mom and learned they were going to be heading to Denmark for a year where her husband was to teach an exchange program at a university. The friend, whose name we can’t remember, made the mistake …
I’m not quite sure how or when we decided that taking a cruise to Alaska with Allie as a 5-year old was at the top of our wish list. I suspect it’s because someone from Barb’s work had done a similar trip and recommended it (see the page of notes…from who?). I viewed it as …
Part 3 of Helen Fisher’s family scrapbook. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. The pages in this post focus on Helen’s grandparents and parents, then Helen and her children. This first page starts with Helen’s grandmother, Mary Ermina (Kellogg) Allen, also known as Minnie. We begin with a special card and poem, “Baby”. …
With the coronavirus breaking records around the country but not in Maryland, we went ahead with a planned minibreak with Allie. She came down for the week in July, the first we had seen her since returning from Aruba in March, just before the lockdowns started. Allie worked from our home instead of hers for …
Part 2 of Helen Fisher’s family scrapbook. Part 1 is here. This next page contains “more notes found pertaining to my maternal family history.” The main item on the page is this “Letter written to (?) Auntie Mae by her mother – my grandmother Allen. No date — about 1899 or 98 probably.” Auntie Mae …
Helen (DeLamater) Fisher, Fred’s mother and Barb and Betsy’s grandmother, left a thick family scrapbook which I believe came into our hands when Fred died. It then languished on a shelf in my office for many years. Barb forgot we even had it. My little archiving project for this website was the first time either …
Part five of my ongoing journal entries about life in the time of the 2020 Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Part One (Jan-Mar, 2020) is here. Part Two (April 2020) is here. Part Three (May 2020) is here. Part Four (June 2020) is here. July 4, 2020 Happy Birthday, America. It seems an appropriate time to reflect. …
In (I’m guessing) June of 2003, the Embrey family embarked on a road trip north to Yellowstone and Grand Teton Parks, followed by a leg into Alberta, Canada visiting Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper. Betsy sent photos but didn’t annotate so I’m making educated guesses on locations and sequence. Maybe they can fill in the …
Allie, Barb and I went to Florida for a summer break, starting on June 28. We stayed with Grandmom and Grandpop for a few days, probably staying at the Hilton on Singer Island. Sue was staying with Grandmom and Grandpop, too. On July 1, Barb, Allie and I checked into The Breakers Hotel in Palm …