End of October Genealogy
I’ve decided to start posting about my genealogy stuff in the hopes of keep better track of it and that someone else might come along and find it. –Reviewing Tyler PA 1910 census docs looking for Helen Zurawiec, my great-grandmother. –Reading this interesting Rutgers oral history transcript from John Pino whose father was born in.. read more →
XC Meet
One of the recent bigger meets had a photographer shooting, so we got some great action shots (thanks Jeff Sides!) and I tossed in a few of my own. Hayley had a great race, she had a PR by over a minute on the Beeson Park course in Kernersville. Stretching out Race start Milkshake time.. read more →
Genealogy notes file
This is a working ‘question’ file I’ve been keeping.MATERNAL SIDE: FRED (Alfredo) FALCONER Birth 18 May 1892 in Lecce, Puglia, Italy Death 1 Nov 1976 in Chapel Hill, Orange, North Carolina Did Fred Falconer arrive at age 10 or 16 from Italy? Did he come over from Tuglie with his cousin Ippazio Saccomanno? Was anyone.. read more →
High School!
Hayley started high school and cross country. read more →
July 4th in Blacksburg
We spent July 4th up in Blacksburg again, a very relaxing break. Jeff and Hayley ran a 5k with Jeff’s parents over in Shawsville. I helped set up their new iMac (another convert to Apple). Jeff and I went back home after the holiday and Hayley stayed longer to hang out with her grandparents and.. read more →
Ready for Football!
We sure are and a visit to Chapel Hill got us all revved up! With Coach Fedora up in the Blue Zone With offensive genius Coach Anderson and recruiting whiz Coach Bell with Quinshad Davis with Kareem Martin & Malik Simmons Early peek at the new uniforms with Thomas Moore and Joey Mangili Let’s pump.. read more →
Faith visit
Hayley’s sister Faith came to stay with us for a weekend and we had a great time. The girls hit the pool a few times, hung out with our next door neighbor, went to Winterpast Farm and went horseback riding. See more photos … read more →
Doolin
A friend of mine (in fact my former HS Brit Lit teacher) has been in Ireland the past few weeks and I was stunned to see she ended up in the town some of my family was from, Doolin in County Clare. Doolin is a lovely small town on the western coast of Ireland and.. read more →
Dark on Both Sides
Hayley spent two weeks at a great teen film workshop St. Augustine’s. 16 kids, a college professor and some of her students – they had access to the entire campus to shoot and the film department’s gear. They all really worked hard on stuff and I’m really impressed how much technical stuff they’ve done with.. read more →
Semi-Formal
The Kestrel Eighth grade semi-formal was really fun. Jeff and I chaperoned for much of the evening. Hayley got ready with her friend Sandra over at our house and then meet her boyfriend Andrew at the dance. Lots more photos read more →