Fred and Louise put together this album covering their early life together. Betsy has the album and I scanned it while in Colorado in 2021. The album has a green cover that says S.S. Independence, a cruise ship that mainly plied the Atlantic in the 1950s-1960s. I’m not sure when they might have sailed on …
Part seventeen of my ongoing journal entries about life in the time of the 2020-2021 Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Previous posts: Part One (Jan-Mar, 2020). Part Two (April 2020). Part Three (May 2020). Part Four (June 2020). Part Five (July 2020). Part Six (August 2020). Part Seven (September 2020). Part Eight (October 2020). Part Nine (November …
Our post-Covid (?) family reunion with the Embreys (and to meet Embrey Ann) in Denver and Breckenridge, plus a side visit to Estes Park to see Frances and Dave. In the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, just after the elections in November 2020 and around the time the first vaccine developments were announced, I got …
We only have three somewhat partial albums from Barb’s youth: one that Betsy put together for Barb’s 40th birthday, one that Barb made mostly in 1966 when she lived in Italy, and one from Barb’s school ski trips in Dusseldorf. Betsy has a much larger trove of photos of their youth and earlier that we’ve …
These photos come from an album that Gerry Carleton put together and gave eventually to Barb. Gerry was a teacher at the American International School in Dusseldorf. This post covers two trips, one in February 1972 to Sachrang in Germany and a second February 24 – March 5, 1973 to Ried im Zillertal, Austria. There …
This post is based on the album Betsy put together for Barb on her 40th birthday, supplemented by other photos from Betsy’s collection and ones I’ve found. The commentary is mostly mine, added much later and subject to corrections and revisions from more knowledgeable sources. The Fishers moved to Hong Kong in 1958. Barbara Helen …
Allie’s 2007 People To People trip to Australia. In the fall of 2006, we learned about the People To People Student Ambassador program, possibly as an outgrowth of Allie’s involvement in the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth summer programs that Allie had done in previous years. Allie was invited to participate in People To …
Allie was in 6th grade, middle school at GCS. We gave the first of what proved to be a short-lived tradition of inviting friends and neighbors to a post-New Year’s open house. It was a nice idea: it forced us to clean up the house, it was a good chance to meet our expanding list …
In November 1974, Dad was invited to join a group of Hong Kong business people on a two-week tour of China. Mom was able to go with him. This was two years after Nixon’s groundbreaking 1972 trip to China and one of the early tours for any American businessman beyond the Canton Trade Fair. The …
Part sixteen of my ongoing journal entries about life in the time of the 2020-2021 Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Previous posts: Part One (Jan-Mar, 2020). Part Two (April 2020). Part Three (May 2020). Part Four (June 2020). Part Five (July 2020). Part Six (August 2020). Part Seven (September 2020). Part Eight (October 2020). Part Nine (November …