Barb and I got ready to celebrate our 50th birthdays and our 25th anniversary. Allie continued with 7th grade at GCS. It was a big year. We started the new year with an open house party for friends and neighbors at our house on January 5. I think this was the second of these annual …
Allie returned from Australia on July 12. We were delighted to have her back and hear all the stories of her travels. But no rest for the weary! On August 11, the three of us headed off on a vacation in Italy, starting with a one-day layover in London. See details in a separate post …
We return to Boston to see Allie and spend a few days in Chatham on Cape Cod. Sunday, August 29 – Drive to Boston We drove up to Boston, leaving before 8am to be sure to arrive around 4pm, in plenty of time for the evening’s John Mulaney show that Allie got tickets for the …
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 …
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 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 …