While the Fisher family was stationed in Dusseldorf, they conspired with the Babcocks to buy adjoining lots in Chincoteague, Virginia. I think the plan was to both have a summer getaway destination that they could also rent out. It may have also had something to do with the Fishers maintaining a Virginia address for the …
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 …
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 …
These are photos and other things from Barb’s childhood scrapbook made mostly in 1966 when she lived in Italy. The commentary and captions are the best I can glean from the album and my own guesses. There are a few photos and things at the end from another scrapbook from 1968-1970. I need to get …
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”. …
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 …
This post represents the last, partial album that Barb didn’t quite complete before Allie was born. After this point, posts come from the raw photos we have from year to year. In the late spring of 1994, we invested in some new landscaping for our backyard. Our yard was actually a steep hill that had …