cousins 1984

It's 1984. We are on a trip to the states. The picture is taken in the basement of the house where Grandma Wall lived in Hamburg. Uncle Jim bought the house I think. He kept a place in the basement that he used for an office and also had a bedroom. The rest was open space and that is where we got together for the photo. This was the trip in the same year as the Tall Ships in sydney.

Back Row: Joan, Joe, Jack & Ann's daughter Nancy (I believe), Betty and Joe's daughter Carolyn, and Katie Ann.

Front row: I think all three are Brother Tom & Karen's but I don't recognize the little boy on the left at all - most likely it's Tommy Jr.??? On the other side of Grandma Wall are Lisa, Kaitlyn & Kristin. But I'm not sure which K is which.

Brother Jim was stationed out in Fredonia on the lake at this time and we stayed with him in his rectory. We also have some pictures taken in a photo booth in the town of Jamestown where we took a day trip. It was not far from Jim's rectory. I believe that this was the trip where both Joan and Joe got to drive a bit on the way down. I think I pretended to sleep in the back between gasps. It was not a long trip as I recall because we were hurrying back for the tall ships and also because Joan did not want to be there because it was interfering with her love life. I recall daily letters being written. I also remember that we only stopped once on the way back and that was somewhere in New Brunswick...most likely near St. John.

This is one of the blank spots in my memory and I can't say why. Maybe I need to mull on it more.

Once again, I get a message after a considerable perion that there were errors during the upload and a button to return to post. I shortened the title to cousins and the title on the upload page was cousins.bmp, but it didn't come through...

Joan, can you do your magic???