My sister Karen Graham and her husband George just came back from England, where they visited what remains of Lavenham air base. My father served there in a B17 crew during the war. Karen is standing on the old airfield in the second photo.My father, who was an art student before joining the Army Air …
Tag: Family
Grandparently stuff
Eli’s Baptism in Santa Fe two weekends ago. With this and a Tom Russell concert and deadlines and trying to get Momo going and editing– BUSY!Eli and doting grandma:Niki and Eli, Jack too…The ceremony, us behind:Lib with Jenny French, one of my oldest friends in duration if not age, beaming on what she calls the …
Around the House– an Occasional series
I thought I’d post a few photos I keep up in my library, which relate to Q – type subjects- click to “embiggen” as they say in Bloglandia… First, on the bookcase, a few mentors living and dead: Anderson Bakewell, SJ, at the Magdalena shooting range about 1987 (Tom McIntyre’s title: “It’s been HOW long …
A very strange word list
This may only interest writers and other word- mad wretches.. But I recently unearthed a 1940 postcard of the Tokyo Olympiad (?) written on but never sent by Virginia Huntington, Betsy’s mother and the bishop’s wife.We NEVER made any sense of it- creative interpretations encouraged. (She was also a rather awful, but published, poet, if …
My other side
I was asked by email if I knew anything about the history on my Italian side. Not from books is my answer. Bodios (and my grandmother on that side, Sylvia Arzeni) came most recently from Ispra on the east shore of Lake Maggiore a few miles south of the Swiss border; a village called Bodio …
A fishy coat of arms
A month or two ago David Zincavage, who is both an old friend and a sort of dog relative (his Uhlan is Ataika’s nephew) emailed me asking if I knew anything about my mother’s family, the McCabes. In fact I did, but mostly family folklore; that though they came to the New World (the Canadian …
Young Eli
I’ll slow down the doting grandpa stuff after this weekend but here is Jack’s own link to Elisha Joseph (a middle name he shares with my dad, who has often featured here) Frishman, with pix funny and touching. Jackson also sent some excellent pix of the late Big Eli that sum him up better than …
Baby Name
He’ll have a good old- fashioned name, “Eli” (Elisha) after the late Eli Tripp, our “other kid” in Montana and a worthy namesake. My obit quoted his local one for some examples of his interests. “In addition to taking courses at NYU Film School and MSU, Eli was a student of life, backpacking in Europe …
Long Awaited?
Well, yeah. Here is Niki last week at a St John’s reunion dance with Larissa. I can’t believe she could still walk never mind dance, but this IS a woman who climbed Mt Taylor’s 11,000 plus feet while visibly pregnant!
Q Blog Post 2500: It’s a (big) boy!
A delightful coincidence: I had hoped for something good to blog for # 2500 but never dared dream it would be this good; the long- awaited birth of the”Peculiar- Querencia baby”! On Sat Oct 1, after two strenuous days of labor, a vigorous boy of 9 pounds 12 ounces (about twice as big as I …