Negatives Processed Into Digital Format 1943 To 1998

Negatives 1943 To 1998


1943	Virginia Davidson Blakeman and Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman	Kingston, NJ		Shortly after August 21, 1943
1944	Virginia Leal Blakeman, Van Blakeman and Beatrice Bruce Blakeman	with Thomas Ledyard Blakeman	and Virginia D Blakeman. And in Bebe's hand to the right ...	"The Children Who Went To New Jersey" Author might have been VDB
	Princeton, NJ June, 1944	June, 1945	In Stony Brook July, 1946	Thomas and Van Blakeman
1946			65 Westcott Rd September, 1946	On a Cape Cod sand dune July, 1947
1947		Tucker, Virginia, Bebe, Leal, Hannah Van, Tom and Penny the dog Birmingham, MI, December 25, 1948	Van and Hannah Hall Blakeman Bloomfield Hills, MI December, 1952	Virginia, Hannah and Van Blakeman dying Easter eggs April 05, 1953
1953	With Don Dohoney, camp counselor and MI football pro. Camp Charlevoix, MI August 12, 1953	Van burnt his face off weeks prior holding a match over a shellac can to clean the goop out. Bloomfield Hills, MI, April 18, 1954	Could be about when they bought the Cape house. Cataumet, MA, August, 1954	5905 Wing Lake Rd, Bloomfield Hills, MI April, 1955
1955	Van with Art and Pete Rowe camping probably in Northern MI Tom Blakeman taking picture. September, 1955		Cissy Sloan J D Martin Sloan	Bloomfield Hills, MI
1956		Their new home for a year on West Mountain Rd, West Simsbury, CN May, 1957	Tucker the Springer Spaniel
1957
	Van and his pet parakeets Cataumet, MA June, 1957	Janey Douglass on the Megansett pier	Freddie Douglass and Hobbit II Cataumet, MA	Janey and Freddie
	J D Martin Sloan	Van Blakeman's foot Don't know why	Christmas with their paternal grandmother Charlotte Phillips Van Cleve Church Princeton, NJ, December 25, 1957	Uncle Frederic Birdsey Blakeman and his new wife, Virginia "Jill" Sherwood Blakeman cutting the wedding cake. June, 1958
1958		Princeton, NJ		Cleo the Christmas puppy December 25, 1958
1959	Van's aquarium March, 1959		Cleo and Hobbit II
				Hobbit and Tom Blakeman March, 1959
	Van's bedroom	at 95 Wilson Rd, Princeton, NJ	March, 1959
			Hannah Hall Blakeman March 29, 1959
				Bebe Blakeman June, 1959
				Leal Blakeman
	Virginia Davidson Blakeman	Marty Sloan, Mt Rushmore, SD
	Need a name	Virginia Blakeman	Yellowstone National Park, WY
		The Sweetgrass Ranch Melville, MT July, 1959	Phillis and Tom Blakeman Mother and son
	Virginia and Tom watching a rodeo clown	Marty Sloan
			Van Blakeman	The Sweetgrass ranch house Melville, MT

	Janey Douglass on the Megansett pier in North Falmouth, MA August, 1959	Beach party, probably on Lawrence Island Cataumet, MA	Freddie Douglass on the bow of their motorboat	Squeteague harbor
				Squeteague harbor beetle cats Cataumet, MA
	On the ferry boat to Marthas Vineyard	Edgartown Harbor	Gay Head	Marty and Van on the ferry boat
	Biking MV and staying at a Marthas Vineyard hostel		Old Silver Beach	in Falmouth, MA
	Van took her to her prom probably near Birmingham, MI	Cannot recall her name	September, 1959	Marty digging a drainage trench
	The Sloan's new home	Back at the Wilson Rd house Princeton, NJ June, 1960	Leal	Tom Blakeman and Prince
1960		Hannah Blakeman	Elli Donald (Hawks) and Ann Donald Bill Donald III and Bill Donald II August, 1960	Elli Donald (Hawks) and Ann Donald Bill Donald III and Bill Donald II August, 1960
	Ranch hand, Sarge Hoem	Ranch hand, Van Blakeman	A roll-over on the way home from the ranch put his left leg in a full cast and a dent in his head	Van made this target for Hannah Princeton, NJ December 25, 1960
1961	September, 1961	near Princeton	Diana Berrie	His 1939 Packard
		Jody Kerssenbrock December, 1961	Hubert W Giebel and Leal Blakeman engaged	95 Wilson Rd Princeton, NJ
	Carole Farley with George Wood and Ruthie Seyfarth December 09, 1961			David Johnson
		Need a name	Need names	Bleak winter view from the house Princeton, NJ December 09, 1961
	Diana Berrie	Nick Long Need her name
1962	'Beaver' Johnson and brothers, NYC	Thomas Ledyard Blakeman Beatrice Bruce Blakeman	Jody Kerssenbrock Need his name	On his way to a friend's farm in Nebraska March, 1962
	Between Lyons and Bancroft, NE April, 1962
			Van on his way to a shower	Larry Kjeldgaard
	Dehorning the cattle ...	... before they poke each other's eyes out
		Nona Kjeldgaard Need daughter's name	Need son's name	Their babysitter
	Need her name
			December 25, 1962	One year later December 25, 1963
1964	Boot camp graduation parade	USMC, Parris Island, SC	June 11, 1964
		US Marine Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman showing his folks the obstacle course	US Marine Van Blakeman USMC, San Diego, CA November, 1964	Marching to Communication-Electronics Radio Relay classroom
	Entering their school		This may be George Morris, some have said "Van's twin"	Not sure who this is
	George Babbage and Tom Collins	Their quonset huts - home		Quonset hut supply depot
	Van		Need his name	Radio Relay class-10-night-65
	Opens a normal screen size photo	Opens an enormous photo Use your scroll bars to find an individual		After a "Junk on the Bunk" inspection
	November 10, 1964		Marsha Lynn Fink
		The Marine Corps birthday November 10, 1964		December, 1964
	Marsha Lynn Fink Blakeman and Van Blakeman, just married	William and May Fink with daughter and son-in law	Winter Haven, CA December 12, 1964
	With her sister and brother-in-law			San Diego, CA
	Flying east. December 20, 1964	With Virginia Leal Blakeman Giebel Princeton, NJ. December 24, 1964	2338 Moore St, San Diego, CA Their first home
1965	February, 1965

				Graduated and transferred Moving to El Toro
	Unpacking in their new home	Keeping some things packed in case he ships to Vietnam	566 Canyon Acres Dr Laguna Beach, CA
	Marsha Blakeman modeling	Los Angeles, CA	July, 1965
				Marine air show, El Toro, CA
1966
	Radio relay field exercises Camp Pendleton, CA
	Flying east. June, 1966	Visiting folks at 95 Wilson Rd, Princeton, NJ	Marsha	US Marine Van Blakeman June, 1966
	Flying out of New York	The engine died. He tried to rebuild it. Failed. And then it got stoned to death	More field exercises Camp Pendleton
	227 1/2 Agate Ave, Balboa Island, Newport Beach, CA after separation from Marsha and then from the Marines	Flying east about December 20, 1966	Visiting the folks at Christmas 95 Wilson Rd, Princeton, NJ

1967	Van's parting shot as Marines prepare for Vietnam (that's not him) >> I do need names <<	Good friend Joan helps Van celebrate his discharge		New home 227 1/2 Agate Ave, Balboa Island, CA
		Gille Flemier of France, visiting a neighbor. A casual friend Van met on the island.		Good friends, Esther Wellington David Walden Young
			The Mark Davidson Trio Corona Del Mar, CA	Hobbit the puppy
	Van got Hobbit from his previous landlady in Laguna		Elaine Blakely, classmate, pristine voice .. Rub your belly and pat your head ..	She went on to sing professionally with The Doodletown Pipers
	Housemate Pierce Shannon	Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman and Gille Flemier	Van's Opel Rekord and Shannon's Renault in back of their home at ...	227 1/2 Agate Ave, Balboa Island, CA May, 1966
		The Huntington Beach Pier		The Manhattan Beach Pier
		Carmen Del Valle	Pierce	Don't recall her name
	Flying east, July, 1967	Hobbit Princeton, NJ	Sally Morey, Hannah Blakeman, Bob Carrick and Hobbit	Sally Morey, Van and Hannah Blakeman, Hobbit and Hannah's dog Prince
	Antique copper cauldron			Downpour in Princeton
		Stony Brook July 1967	Virginia Blakeman's watercolor of Melville, Montana's Porcupine Butte	A rusted vent under the front stoop Well, why not?
	Beatrice Bruce Blakeman Trenton, NJ		Holder Hall, Princeton University	Princeton High School 1967
	Princeton, NJ graveyard	Sally Morey	Cool jazz, maybe near Princeton	Hannah Blakeman and friend, with Hobbit August, 1967
	The Bourne Bridge		Sky over Cataumet, MA
	Lawrence Island in the mist Cataumet, MA	Squeteague Harbor	August, 1967	10 Squeteague Harbor Rd Cataumet, MA

	Cleo the Beagle	Thomas Ledyard Blakeman	Erich and Elizabeth Leal Giebel, Virginia Leal Blakeman Giebel, Tom Blakeman in the garage	Erich Martin Giebel
	Hobbit the dog	Leal and Elizabeth Giebel	Liz and Erich Giebel	Virginia Davidson Blakeman
		Antique ship's navigation sextant	Leal and friend, Tom, Virginia, Van and Hannah Blakeman
		Antique chain lamp
		The Grasslands in Cataumet		August 15, 1967
	Erich			Imitating Grandfarfar
				Grandfarfar, Tom Blakeman
			The annual Cataumet Camp skit	That may be Liz Giebel on the left
	NEED NAMES!	??, and Debbie Laurie
			Tappan Zee Bridge. New York. August, 1967	One reason Van left NJ - (for Southern CA's smog??) Actually he never really 'left'; he just went 'towards' the CA sun, warmth, laid back ethos, etc.
	The NJ Turnpike. New York - Newark stretch	Ginny and Tom Blakeman Newark Airport	Flying west August, 1967	The afterburn
	Van's 1958 Plymouth Royal coupe on Agate Ave. Balboa Island, CA	The pathway from Agate Ave to Van's home in back	Home-made doors to keep Hobbit in September, 1967
		Van's back patio Balboa Island, CA	Van's aquarium; an occasional moment of peace
	Robin, a lovely 'young' neighbor in love with Van. He gently kept her at arms length.	Experimental photograpy Balboa Island, CA		Van's candle sculpture; another occasional moment of peace
		Man fishing from the pier August, 1967	Under the Balboa pier	Balboa Peninsula Newport Beach, CA
	Tihuana Hills		Vietnam protest group outside the El Toro Marine Corps rifle range	An aspiring writer and his dog Balboa Island, CA September, 1967
		Sending off a manuscript	A hallway inside Orange Coast College Costa Mesa, CA
		October, 1967	New housemate British transplant Carol Ashworth	A Dolphin fountain possibly in Costa Mesa, CA
	Smoke from Paseo Grande fire hangs over Newport Beach			October 29, 1967
				Fire in the Paseo Grande hills Tustin, CA
		Interesting sky somewhere in Orange County, CA October 30, 1967	Mildred Hodgeman cleaning the place in exchange for fixing her appliances	Moving
	Clowning around on top of Mount San Jacinto above Palm Springs, CA. November, 1967	Van's Plymouth Royal in the Laguna hills Orange County, CA	Possibly near USMC El Toro Irvine, CA
				Possibly the San Juan Creek along the Ortega Highway
	Newport Beach, CA skyline at night	Virginia Blakeman overlooking Laguna Beach, CA	Laguna seas	Van's favorite daily (come hell or high water) swimming beach (where he had almost drowned in rough seas)
	Virginia Blakeman Mission San Juan Capistrano


			Loving girlfriend for awhile Consuelo Wingard	About 25 years after Steinbeck Cannery Row, CA


	At Van's new home	His 'Youve got mail' contraption 240 E. 15th St	Costa Mesa, CA	Flying over Newport Harbor in CA December 09, 1967

	Visiting UCSC Santa Cruz considering enrollment
			Flying out of LAX about December 20, 1967	The Delaware river between Lambertville, NJ and New Hope, PA
	The Battle Monument Princeton, NJ	Diana Berrie and Van Blakeman	Erich Martin Giebel clowning around Princeton, NJ	Van's uncle John Letchworth Church Tom Blakeman's half-brother
	Leal Giebel Van's oldest sister	Tom Blakeman and friends. His mother, Charlotte Phillips Van Cleve Church and Jody Kerssenbrock at the piano	Jody Kerssenbrock singing Pianist's name unknown	Christmas stocking on Van's bureau December 25, 1967
		Virginia and Hannah Blakeman, Jody, Tom Blakeman, Phillis Blakeman Church and Bebe Blakeman	Opening Xmas stockings	Hannah Blakeman The Christmas tree is off limits until after breakfast
		Hannah, Virginia and Bebe Blakeman, Jody Kerssenbrock, Tom Blakeman and his mother Phillis Church	Gifts Van received	Bebe Blakeman, Phillis Church, Tom Blakeman, Jody Kerssenbrock, Van and Hannah Blakeman
		Snow in the back yard 95 Wilson Rd, Princeton, NJ	Flying west December 29, 1967
1968	Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman getting a haircut	Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach, CA March, 1968
	Approaching the hill to Joshua Tree, CA on Highway 62		Van got a loan and bought this place on March 19, 1968
		Hobbit providing some perspective






	This $50 Branstrator trailer will become Van's home away from home	Hobbit and Tibboh	Tibboh was only with us for a few months


		Passing through Indio
	Back home in Costa Mesa rebuilding the trailer

		Home at 240 E 15th St, Costa Mesa, CA. June, 1968	Van Blakeman	Van's big doors find another purpose
	Dr Charles J Galbo. Newport Beach, CA Van's respected guide and mentor	Flying east around July 31, 1968	Thomas Ledyard Blakeman was told to smile Cataumet, MA	Jody Kerssenbrock
	John Letchworth Church and Tom Blakeman August, 1968	Van's bedroom in the garage - full house	Van's folk's driveway at 10 Squeteague Harbor Road	A driftwood garden Cataumet, MA
	A roof	Cars in the front lawn	A wind chime sculpture	A tree
		Tom and daughter Virginia Leal Blakeman Giebel	Dancing a boogie woogie at a weekend bottle party	Ginny and Tom Blakeman
	These people could swing!		Their 'stink pot' in Squeteague Harbor Cataumet, MA	Van about to go spearfishing in Megansett Harbor
		Flying west	Rebuilding his Branstrator trailer Costa Mesa, CA
	September, 1968		His Willys Jeep
	Good friends Bill Tinkey and Les Ingledue, two members of his writing group at OCC		Van's cool jazz chair. Yes, he was trying to make this pic weird	His bedroom. Note the jerry-rigged mike and speaker for talking on the phone
	An Elephant Ear tree in his back yard	Experiments in photography
	Float found on the beach was twice this long. Been adding candles ever since. Don't know why - peaceful, maybe	Made this lamp sculpture from scrap. The mural is by a previous tenant	David Walden Young at Hussong's, Ensenada, MX	The pretty girls ALWAYS zeroed in on Dave, the attorney
			The mens urinal at Hussong's	A loaner from Dave's court clerk
		Horse riders on the beach	An Ensenada sunset
	The Mexican Navy in Ensenada harbor	A Mexican soldier
	Billboard for Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin San Diego, CA	Newport Beach sunset October, 1968		Foggy moon in a tree
	A boulevard at night			Experiment in photography
	A Willys Jeep towbar and headlight at night	An architectural cross on a chimney Probably Laguna Beach, CA	Photography assignment November, 1968
				Experiments in photography for his class at OCC


	He ripped old fence boards to make this sculpture		A dry pond on Laguna Canyon Road Laguna Beach, CA
	Laguna Canyon Road from above	His Willys Jeep in a precarious postion	Willys Jeep tire on his house trailer roof vent	Hired to photograph Ernie's rock band Orange County, CA

			Van's 1st photo job. Can't remember Ernie's last name	With Barbara December, 1968
	Portrait assignment			Dr Charles J Galbo and names forgotten Group party in Van's home.
			Sheila Goldes, Barbara and Hobbit. Need Names.
	Flying east	Trains from NY to Princeton, NJ

				Antique TriX camera shots


		Beatrice Bruce Blakeman and dad Tom Blakeman December 25, 1968	Bebe and Hannah Hall Blakeman
	Erich and Leal Giebel
	Hannah Blakeman			Elizabeth and Leal Giebel
		Uncle Robert Bruce Davidson reading Playboy
	Beatrice Bruce Blakeman, Virginia Davidson Blakeman, Hannah Hall Blakeman	Bebe, Virginia and Hannah Blakeman opening Christmas gifts
				A 95 Wilson Road Christmas Princeton, NJ
		Antique copper cauldron	The Nassau Christian Church Princeton, NJ
	Holder Hall Princeton University		A neighbor's dog 'Bear' had jumped the fence in September and impregnated Hobbit	Flying west. December 31, 1968
1969	Hobbit and Bear's litter	Costa Mesa, CA	February, 1969
		A girl named Carol modeling for his photo assignment Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA	Linda	Nancy
	OCC
	Newport Beach, CA
			Where is this bridge??	OCC March, 1969
		Patty		Van's new home April, 1969
	Van got a full time job in Laguna and attended programming classes at night in Santa Ana	389 Loma Terrace Laguna Beach, CA
		He built this gate from an old discarded OCC fence to keep an obnoxious landlady out	View from his house	A random drive one weekend brought him through Mammoth Lakes
	Do not recall this party Probably someone else's negative	Do not know these good people		Also probably someone else's negatives

1970
			Van's 10 acres and trailer in Joshua Tree, CA	Then bought 2.5 acres in Mojave, CA January, 1970

		Mohave neighbors

			I-5 construction near Palmdale, CA	Lake Palmdale near Mohave
	Bought this hand carved eagle in Baja, Mexico		Inside the Branstrator trailer	February, 1969
	Joshua Tree, CA

				Just moved the trailer to his land in Joshua Tree, CA
		Found this tank at a renovating laundrymat in Costa Mesa. They let him take it away, free!		Bought this '49 Willys Jeep to tow the trailer from Costa Mesa up the hill to Joshua Tree

				Bought this Chevy Nova so he could return east to find a programming job.




		Saying goodby to housemate Doug Perske, fellow ex-Marine		Mesa Automotive agreed to store the Jeep since they had rebuilt the engine a few times
	The Colorado River	He met a girl, Debra J Hildebrand, on his new job at the Western Electric Engineering Research Center in Lawrenceville, NJ	She agreed on a weekend's trip to the Cape July, 1970	Deb Hildebrand, Elizabeth Giebel, Tom and Virginia Blakeman, Van Blakeman
		This woman was also visiting his folks. Can't recall her name but she had a brilliant mind
	Tom Blakeman and Winston Kellogg sailing the Kittiwake	Megansett Harbor, MA		Martha Douglas and friends quahogging Squeteague Harbor, MA
				Winston, Deb, Ginny and Need-Name in his small steamboat, Woods Hole, MA
	Tom Blakeman digging Cataumet, MA	Elizabeth Leal Giebel	Liz Giebel
	Erich Martin Giebel and Hobbit drinking from a clear natural spring	Above Squeteague Harbor		Erich in a tree

			Lizzy Giebel sitting at the natural spring below her grandparent's home	On the dock in Squeteague Harbor
	Erich boating	Hobbit meets a lobster	Liz inside her grandmother's driftwood sculpture	Deb Hildebrand and her folks are visiting friends in Enfield, ME

			The Desert of Maine in Freeport
	The former Lincoln Theater in Maine			Andrew and Josephine Monteleone
		Van's stuff in his folk's carport, waiting for a place to go. 95 Wilson Rd, Princeton, NJ	He finds a place in the local paper, buys it, cleans it and moves in. Needs a little work.	For $100 down, Adele Dexter agrees to carry the $25K mortgage
	On the corner of Highway Route 1 and ...	1 Richard Road Monmouth Junction, NJ		August 11, 1970

		Even his folks helped clean the place and his dad dug a trench for the new water line

		His new home includes a cottage behind the trees
	A trap door in the kitchen goes to a full sized basement	This is exciting

	Brother-in-law Kaare Karstad flys him overhead to get pictures of his 3/4 acre property
		At one time, this was a rock crushing plant. Some of the concrete mounts are still in place between the house and the cottage.	Van and his girlfriend Deb fly west to visit California March 31, 1971
1971	Flowering Prickly Pear cactus	High Desert area, CA	April, 1971
			Creosote bush and Ocotillo plant
	Desert Dandelion	Mormon Tea	Ocotillo plant and Creosote bush	Ocotillo
	Stork's Bill Filaree	Teddy Bear Cholla Joshua Tree National Park, CA	Flowering Ocotillo cactus
	Cottonwood Spring Oasis April, 1971	Inside the oasis	Keys view
				Intersection of Hwy 62 and Park Blvd Joshua Tree, CA
		Van's Branstrator trailer under a sun roof		Mount San Jacinto, CA April, 1971
				Overlooking Palm Springs
			Debra J Hildebrand
			Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman
			Cable car
				Coffmans Crag
	Overlooking Palm Springs		High Desert area
	The San Juan creek along the Ortega highway	Above and beyond Elsinore on the way to San Juan Capistrano
	South Laguna shoreline		Racing fleet of sail boats passing by	Cliff hugging staircase and cave below 40 N La Senda Drive
		Carved ocean pools Three Arch Bay	Concrete ocean pool and cabana	Kris and Lee Bower, Van, David Walden Young
	An old stucco garden home probably in Laguna	The Surf & Sand Hotel, left of center, is where Van's sister Hannah spent her wedding night with John Giles	Laguna's Main Beach cove in the distance	Visiting Marsha and May Fink San Diego, CA April 22, 1971
	Flying east about April 23, 1971	Hobbit in their new back yard August, 1971	The yard was installed before their wedding Monmouth Junction, NJ	Adding a cottage deck with recycled lumber from a New Brunswick, NJ house wreaking yard
			Van and Deb visit the old farmstead of his late maternal grandparents
	Near the canal bridge in Bourne, MA September 12, 1971	The Bourne Bridge	Kaare Karstad visiting 10 Squeteague Harbor Rd, Cataumet, MA	This almost looks like Route 6 into Provincetown, MA
	Squeteague Harbor	The Blakeman home is in the center	Kaare Karstad sailing his boat with Debra Blakeman and don't know who else	Megansett Harbor, MA
	Spohr Gardens Falmouth, MA		Nobska Point Lighthouse Woods Hole, MA	Ferry boat to Nantucket
	Early 20th century cottage behind the ferry landing in Woods Hole	Cobblestone street with fountain Nantucket, MA

			It's their honeymoon, okay?	On the honeymoon boat from Nantucket
				Back home in Monmouth Junction, NJ November, 1971
	Cracked Chevy Nova windshield		Fall leaves on their back yard	Installing a driveway
			Added a stained glass skylight, found in a New Brunswick, NJ house wreaking yard	Adding an external closet to the bedroom cottage
		Christmas wreath on the front door December 25, 1971
				Their new kitten cuddles with Hobbit
	'Cat'
	The stained glass bathroom skylight (under plate glass) is covered with snow
1972
		Building a chair-wall July, 1972	Megansett Harbor, MA August, 1972
	Squeteague Harbor and Lawrence Island	Sketching a plan for their NJ home		Van's folk's home
	Thomas Ledyard Blakeman		Deb Blakeman, Alice Bebout, Tom Blakeman and John Giles	Painting their home in Monmouth Junction, NJ
	New soil for the corner lot which the town provided for letting them round off the corner	Spreading it around	Built this stone wall to surround the septic tank	The house has been painted and the cottage has new cedar siding
		The back yard in the woods	Blue the kitten and Cat the almost cat	On a stone wall in the back yard
	Blue attacking the antique trunk		Working on his penny collection August, 1972
		A bronze handle and mail slot on a door found at the wreaking yard covered in paint	Stripped the paint, stained and polished
	Somewhere in the northeast	Maple syrup country
		Where is this wooden bridge?
		Sanibel Island, FL September 12, 1972
	Disneyworld, Orlando, FL
		Key West, FL	Long Key Viaduct, FL
		Daytona Beach, FL
		St. Petersburg, FL
	Castillo de San Marcos Spanish fort		A Bucks County covered bridge in New Jersey December, 1972	Bowmans Tower
	Delaware River from Bowmans Tower		Gravestone of Dale C Hildebrand Deb Blakeman's brother "1946 - 1966"	Steps from the kitchen door to the cottage crosswalk Monmouth Junction, NJ
		Inside their bedroom cottage		Doors to the closet addition
	The closet pole hangs from and rolls along a ceiling channel		Chestnut beveled glass french doors open to the rear deck and yard	The doors were found in a New Brunswick, NJ house wreaking yard
			December, 1972
		Their Christmas December 25, 1972	A Stover Christmas Robert, Bobby and Geri Stover with Barbara Hildebrand	Aaron Stover in the Hildebrand home Pennington, NJ
		Bobby Stover and Stanley Hildebrand	Need_Name with Bobby, Geri and Aaron Stover
		Barbara, Van, Need_Name, Red Hildebrand and Robert, Geri and Bobby Stover
1973	A Golden Arborvitae, mailbox and lamp on a hollow wood post, and a tiered timber wall	1 Richard Rd, Monmouth Junction, NJ July, 1973

	Blue the white cat		Van is rebuilding his box trailer	He found it in a vacant lot near his home on Balboa Island around 1967
	He bought this trailer for $35 worth of labor from a respected and liked friend Harvey D Pease	Harvey was also the realtor that collected his rent	Squeteague Harbor Cataumet, MA
	Lawrence Island			Thomas Ledyard Blakeman and Virginia Davidson Blakeman
	Hobbit the dog	Van Blakeman driving the motorboat	Debra J Blakeman has caught a Bluefish
	John Letchworth Church, Van and Tom and Virginia Blakeman with Sy Kano		Serving at tennis on the clay court Cataumet, MA
	Deb sailing Win Kellogg's boat through Long Island Sound	August, 1973		Winston Kellogg


		Win Kellogg sailing the Kittiwake
	Where is this?	Coast Guard Lighthouse Buzzards Bay	Doing the books Monmouth Junction, NJ	August, 1973
				Blue the white cat
				"Think Shaklee" on their corner lot. They were really into selling it at the time. Truly excellent natural products.
	December, 1973
		Their bedroom cottage	A Cardinal in the new snow
	Left here on a bus heading west. It was to be a short trip to see the new investment and collect the back rent.	Under the rear deck of their home on Santa Rosa Drive South Laguna, CA	January, 1974
1974


			Ocean view from the rear deck	Had bought it 8/16/1973 sight unseen on David and Cici Young's recommendation
	They decided to stay	Some of these pics were actually taken after Van's return (see below). Oh well.		Adjacent to Bill and Bernice Bailey's home
	His Willy's Jeep had been in storage at Mesa Automotive, near where they got off the bus
	The hills above their new home in South Laguna

	The back neighbor's roof was close enough to walk across and take pictures

			Van flew east to gather their posessions. This began the overuse of their credit card which would eventually lead to their having to sell the place	Their Monmouth Junction basement holds the stuff he couldn't fit into the stationwagon and trailer
				Monmouth Junction, NJ February, 1974


				Everything is packed. Heading west!

	Snow and a small stream in the back yard			On the road to California
	A Shaklee Basic-H sign is discovered along the way.	Deb and Hobbit sitting on a bluff	above Thousand Steps Beach South Laguna, CA	May, 1974
				A Need_Name Pier and the Laguna Lido on Thousand Steps Beach below Mission Hospital

	Where was this concrete pier-wall with deck?


	Red flowered Aloe cryptopoda and California Iceplant succulents protect the bluff		What is this in the hills possibly above South Laguna? A pink fiberglass helicopter cabin?
	A trash dump in the hills above South Laguna or maybe El Toro	Aliso Canyon May, 1974
	Yellow flowers on a Prickly Pear cactus		A white Hedge Morning Glory	What is this orange-pink flower on a vine or long stem?
				Above Aliso Canyon May, 1974
			A deck of box gardens	A Bird Of Paradise

	Next door neighbor, Bernice Bailey	Bill Bailey and Hobbit at driveway gate under construction	A neighbor's kitten	An old canvased mission door Van found in a wreaking yard
	A roof alcove bench Van rebuilt for Don and Jane Estep across the street	A shelving unit Van built for Carole (Need Name) in her new Laguna Niguel? condo
			Barbara and Red Hildebrand, Deb's folks, on the beach at South Laguna	August, 1974

	The former Aliso Beach Pier is in the background
			Disneyland
			Maybe Wild Animal Kingdom?	(Need Name of woman and location) with Barbara Hildebrand
	Need Name of boy and location			Robinson's at Fashion Island Newport Beach, CA
	Could be the Statue Of David that later fell in the 1987 Whittier earthquake		Assisting Van's friend Les Lindsey (orange) and crew in preparing a luau

	Hawaiian Poi made from boiled taro roots		Blue the white cat South Laguna, CA	Bougainvillea overgrowing their deck September, 1974
		"Cat" in the Bougainvillea
				Their garden paradise on Santa Rosa Dr



	A South Laguna Christmas
1975	Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman Debra J Hildebrand Blakeman		in Joshua Tree, CA

				Stanley Hildebrand, Deb Blakeman Barbara Hildebrand, Hobbit
			Keys View Joshua Tree National Park
				Perhaps a farmer's wood post fence with rickety gate. Need location. Maybe February, 1975
		The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway to Mount San Jacinto, 1975 Red chickened out	Central Valley, CA February, 1975	Mega flower farms

		On the Balboa ferry crossing Newport Harbor
	The Balboa Island canal			Crystal Cove beach

			The town of South Laguna, CA February, 1975
	Barbara, Need_Name and Deb Laguna Beach, CA	... and Van and Red Below Eye To Eye Optical Boutique	San Juan Capistrano, CA

	San Juan Capistrano, CA	Dana Point jetty
	Hobbit and Barbara in the Blakeman's front yard	South Laguna, CA February, 1975	Looking through a flowery picture window to the deck	on Santa Rosa Drive South Laguna, CA
	Through the front gate	Aliso Pier at sunset South Laguna, CA	Miles Standish Staples	In the hills above South Laguna, CA
	Aliso and Wood Canyons	Ocean view from the hilltop February, 1975	Natural hilltop rock formation
	Wild flowers in the rugged hills
		A Laguna hills windsurfer loosing altitude fast	Van climbed the hill in his Jeep and took the guy and his sail to his car
				Jim Davis used to work with them at the Western Electric ERC in Lawrenceville, NJ
		February 15, 1975		People climbing the hills above the town of South Laguna
	May, 1975	Aliso Beach Pier as seen from an ancient hilltop water tank	Aliso Canyon and creek	A Cholla cactus
	Classic wooden water tank on the hilltop			1000 Steps Beach, undeveloped, as seen from the hills
		Hilltop destruction

				California Sun Cup, maybe



	A living beach terrain
		Sea anemones South Laguna, CA	Aliso Canyon from the top of the hill	No jobs. Had to sell and return East. Taking stuff to Joshua Tree for storage
		Keys view Joshua Tree National Park	May, 1975
		Looks like Peters Canyon Reservoir in Tustin, CA		Rosarito Beach dining in Baja California June, 1975
	Hobbit with Preggy's litter South Laguna	Mysterious Preggy appeared on their doorstep, weak, hungry and ready to burst	Van eased them out and cut the cords	Preggy likes to stay in seclusion July, 1975
	A garden probably at the Baileys	Bernice and Bill Bailey with Hobbit		Miles Standish Staples
	Need_Name. Tom? hired Van to take pictures July, 1975	A street in South Laguna	Deb father's nickname, Red Hildebrand, on somebody's license plate	Their bedroom/office window August, 1975
	Front yard and garden. The cobbled driveway is under construction			The driveway was cobbled with Santa Ana River rock gathered when the river was dry
	Preggy watches	Neighbor and friend Dan Hosfeldt's eye for design guided assembly of this found fencing
				Matthew the kitten and siblings on top of Deb
		Their front yard was created under the direction of neighbor Miles Staples	A neighbor (NEED NAME) painted this picture of the front yard	The painting broke in the mail when it was sent to the Blakeman home in Monmouth Junction, NJ
			Installing a Sears sprinkler line
		Birthday gift of Elephant bathing shorts made by Van's sister Hannah Blakeman, an artist	Ran out of gas backing the Jeep into the U-Haul
	An ocean view from their rear deck though not on the day of departure	Heading east August, 1975 Doubled their money, but still a bummer	Van in the shadows, not happy Monmouth Junction, NJ	Christmas 1975
1976	A light January snowfall on the Arborvitae bushes January, 1976		A snowfall in the woods
	Preggy's son Matthew, not happy	Their cottage bedroom in the snow
			Matthew the cat in a basket	Matthew the cat on aunt Hannah's cushion
1977	Blue the white cat under the Asparagus plant May, 1977	Bleeding Hearts volunteer in the Arborvitae garden	Arborvitaes wrap around the corner lawn Route #1 and 1 Richard Road	Monmouth Junction, NJ
	Tulip Trees	Tulip Tree flowers		Their vegetable garden June, 1977
	Troy the dog. Van made this sign for his wife's folks	Aaron and Bobby Stover Pennington, NJ	Bobby, Aaron and Geri Stover June, 1977	Bobby Stover and Troy the dog
	The Hildebrand barn and cherry trees
		Clearing space for a cabana Monmouth Junction, NJ	Expanding Van's store into the adjacent store. Princeton Furnishings & Antiques December, 1977
1978	Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman visiting his folks Cataumet, MA	February, 1978	Back in Monmouth Junction, NJ, this potbelly stove warmed their entire home very nicely	His old candle-in-a-beach-found-float and lots of plants are in this little dining room
		Found this big mahogany roll-top desk at an auction. Not their dog; probably dog sitting
	New sprout on the Schefflera umbrella tree plant		Debra Blakeman waiting in their shop near the Princeton hospital during the '78 blizzard	Darby Dale Blakeman, Age 0
	February 07, 1978
			At home in Monmouth Junction, NJ


				Darby and her paternal great grandmother Charlotte Phillips Van Cleve Church
	Cataumet, MA		Boy (name needed) with Darby
			Back in Monmouth Junction, NJ July, 1978

			Deb painted vines on their kitchen cabinets	Adding another August, 1978
	Van's workbench in the basement	Experimenting with a high speed film needing no flash

		Spider webs in the trees
	Painting by Van's sister Hannah H Blakeman
		Fall trees and a red house on a placid lake Do not know year or location	Reading the Trenton Times newspaper
		Got a new Ulefos wood stove December, 1978	Much, much nicer then the old potbelly	Winter sky on Richard Road
				Christmas December 25, 1978
			Pepper the cat February, 1979	Is this Aaron Stover?
1979	Their screened cabana on a redwood platform in the back yard behind the cottage	Van chopping small firewood for the wood stove		Darby Blakeman, age 1, February 07, 1979
	Deb and Darby are vacationing in California April, 1979	This is the South Laguna community park

		Visiting old neighbors Bill and Bernice Bailey
			Their old home next door

	The new owners turned the deck into a dining room
		Bill and Bernice taking Deb to check out the trailer	Joshua Tree, CA April 15, 1979

	Bernice Bailey		with Miles Staples and Willa Bailey Gupta
				Bill and Bernice's back yard April 17, 1979
	The first 'On Consignment' in their lives. This one in Laguna Beach. Van opened one in Princeton, NJ	Back home in Monmouth Junction, NJ	Maternal grandparents Stanley and Barbara Hildebrand	May, 1979
				Van made this sign for Paul Hill's Fine Foods
	May, 1979	He made this sign for Crisp N' Clear Printing Princeton, NJ	He made this sign for his shop, On Consignment later renamed Princeton Furnishings & Antiques	Connecting to the town's new sewage line
	Monmouth Junction, NJ May, 1979

	South Brunswick bringing in a new sewer line
			Their Arborvitae corner now includes a stockade fence discarded by his shop's landlord
	Preparing to lay a second driveway in back of the cottage	Ernie Sturgeon did the heavy lifting in exchange for ...	letting him park his machine until all sewers were in
			Red and Barabra's back yard in Pennington, NJ	Bobby Stover with Dar
		Darby and dad in Squeteague Harbor Cataumet, MA	Below his folks home (not visible here)
	With paternal grandmother	Virginia Davidson Blakeman	Dar and cousin Erich Martin Giebel
	Paternal grandfather Thomas Ledyard Blakeman sailing the boat			Ed Delaney and Eileen Delaney
	Best friend neighbors trick-or-treating	Monmouth Junction, NJ		Van
	in his shop: Princeton Furnishings And Antiques	aka: On Consignment	Posing for an article about the store	Tom Blakeman, Erich Giebel, Virginia Blakeman, Deb Blakeman, John Randall, Darby Blakeman, Leal Blakeman Randall. Thanksgiving
	Need location. November 22, 1979

	Their Christmas tree	Monmouth Junction, NJ	December 25, 1979
				Red Hildebrand, Aaron Stover, Bobby Stover Geri Stover, Darby, Deb, Barbara don't recall name, Robert Stover
1980	Debra J Hildebrand Blakeman and Darby Dale Blakeman	Creating a temporary bedroom for Van and Deb 1 Richard Road, Monmouth Junction, NJ	Darby's 2nd birthday February 07, 1980 [ click on a picture to view their names ]	Bebe Karstad, KariAnna Bergitte Karstad, Kaare Karstad and Virginia Downey Giles
	Dar with aunt Hannah Hall Blakeman Giles and Bobby Stover	Dar, John Giles, Red Hildebrand, Geri and Robert and Aaron Stover	Aaron, John, Red, Hannah, Robert, Geri, Deb, Bobby	Bobby, Aaron, Ginny Giles, Bebe Karstad, KariAnna
	Hannah, Robert, Geri, Deb	John, Hannah, Robert, Geri, Deb, Bebe, KariAnna	John Lawrence Tomas Giles, Dar and Kaare	John Giles Jr, John Sr, Geri, Barbara Bobby, Aaron, Deb, Bebe, Kaare
	At Van Blakeman's consignment store Princeton Furnishings & Antiques	His home-made sliding felt jewelry rack March, 1980	Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman taking what will eventually become know as a 'selfie' (or testing the film)	The Holder Memorial Tower Princeton University, NJ
	Darby Blakeman Easter hunting in their newly fenced in corner yard	at highway Route #1 and 1 Richard Road Monmouth Junction, NJ	April 06, 1980
			Darby and Deb Blakeman in dad's office June, 1980	Van subleased his adjacent store to Leo Arons next to Princeton Furnishings & Antiques
				Darby washing dad's van
	July, 1980

		Halloween window display Princeton Furnishings & Antiques	October, 1980	The redwood platform without it's cabana in the corner yard. Also their new Plymouth Horizon
	Monmouth Junction, NJ	November, 1980		Barbara Hildebrand and Darby Blakeman and Abby December 25, 1980
	Christmas Pennington, NJ	Stanley Hildebrand and Darby	Christmas at Bebe's house [ click on the picture to view their names ]	Darby and Deb Princeton, NJ
	Deb and Darby Blakeman, Bobby Stover Monmouth Junction, NJ	Darby's 3rd birthday February 07, 1981	[ click on the picture to view their names ]
1981	Their aquarium May, 1981	Darby Blakeman in back of the Stover house Pennington, NJ	Dar eating lunch, as we wait Monmouth Junction, NJ	Brianny Davidson Blakeman is born May 12, 1981
	Princeton Hospital	Deb and Bri Blakeman
		Darby in her bunk bed Monmouth Junction, NJ	Built by their father to fit over Bri's crib And dad has lost his office.
	Debra J Hildebrand Blakeman and Bri			Brianny Blakeman and Barbara Hildebrand A newborn and her maternal grandmother
	May 14, 1981		Darby and Brianny May 20, 1981	Monmouth Junction, NJ
				June, 1981
			Big sister Darby Dale Blakeman, Deb and Bri
		Bri Blakeman at grandparents home Pennington, NJ
		Darby and grandmother Barbara		Aaron Stover
				Brianny asleep on a Persian rug August, 1981
	At paternal grandparents home in Cataumet, MA			All vehicles into the rear driveway, out of the way Monmouth Junction, NJ
	Glorstan Builders adding bedrooms	September 17, 1981

	Glorstan Builders doing interior work	Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman doing interior work		The wood stove chimney was removed before construction October, 1981

			Dar asleep in dad's found-at-auction and reupholstered morris chair November, 1981





			At a school play
	With Santa Claus	Christmas eve Monmouth Junction, NJ	December 24, 1981

	Geri Stover and Bri	Christmas at Bebe's [ click on the picture to view their names ]	Tommy 'Ledge' Blakeman Princeton, NJ	Tom and daughter Hannah Blakeman Giles December 25, 1981
	KariAnna Bergitte Karstad, Debra, Leal Randall, Ginny Giles, Bebe and Katrine Karstad	Deb, Liz Giebel, Ginny Blakeman Darby, Erich Giebel, KariAnna	Virginia Giles, Deb, Darby, Bri	KariAnna, Deb, Bri, Darby, Erich
	Liz, Virginia Blakeman, Darby, Erich, KariAnna

			Darby Dale Blakeman Brianny Davidson Blakeman
1982		A Tulip tree wood pile in the snow	January, 1982 Monmouth Junction, NJ	Darby Dale Blakeman, Aaron and Geri Stover Darby's birthday
	Darby, Katrine Karstad, Geri Stover, Hannah Giles	Darby opening a birthday gift February 07, 1982	Debra, Robert Stover, Kaare Karstad and Aaron Stover	Virginia Downey Giles, Red Hildebrand, Hannah
	Hannah, Deb, John Giles, Robert, Kaare, Aaron	Kaare, Deb, John Lawrence Tomas Giles	KariAnna Bergitte Karstad	Red, Hannah, Ginny and John Giles, Robert Stover
	Aaron, Bebe and Katrine, Bobby and Geri, KariAnna, Barbara Hildebrand		Bri's first birthday May 12, 1982
	Deb, Bri, Barbara, Dar, Geri John Giles Jr, Bobby Stover	Deb, Virginia Downey Giles, Barbara, Dar, Geri	Ginny Giles, Bri	Geri Stover



				Darby and dad Van washing dishes
	A Hildebrand weekend on the Jersey shore		Bri's got dad's coffee cup on the kitchen floor August, 1982	Monmouth Junction, NJ
			Halloween at school October 31, 1982
		Squeteague Harbor behind Darby and cousin Erich Martin Giebel	Cataumet, MA November 25, 1982	Jeanette and J D Martin Sloan A quick hello and goodby
	Van is set up in his mother's studio	He brings his 'portable' Apple ][e with him	Squeteague Harbor. Cataumet, MA
		Thanksgiving preparations in his folk's kitchen November 25, 1982	Thomas Ledyard Blakeman carving the turkey	Virginia Davidson Blakeman having her evening Dubonnet
	Tom Blakeman and Hannah Hall Blakeman Giles	Erich, [don't recall his friend's name], Deb, Tom
	Hannah, Ginny Blakeman, Dar, Erich and friend	Virginia Leal Blakeman Randall, Dar, Erich
			November 25, 1982	Bri trying to sneak up the Cataumet stairs
		Bri back home in Monmouth Junction November 30, 1982		Bri sneaking up the stairs again She seems to have a thing for this

	Hiding in dad's office		Christmas play at the Monmouth Junction school December, 1982	Christmas tree December 25, 1983

			Darby Blakeman wrapped in a crochet blanket
1983	Brianny Davidson Blakeman watching her sister's baseball game	Darby Blakeman running into home plate May, 1983	Darby and Deb Blakeman in motion Monmouth Junction, NJ	Need_Names
	Darby Dale Blakeman Brianny Blakeman	Bri's second birthday May 12, 1983	Bri, Barbara Hildebrand, Dar, Debra J Hildebrand Blakeman
	Dar, Stanley Hildebrand, Ginny Giles, Bri, Hannah Giles, John Lawrence Tomas Giles, Barbara	Ed Delaney, Bri, Red Hildebrand, Ginny Giles, Hannah	Monmouth Junction, NJ	Ed Delaney, Red Hildebrand, Hannah, Virginia Downey Giles
	John Giles		Bri	Darby, grandmother Barbara Hildebrand and Bri
			Eileen Delaney, Bri, Dar and Ed Delaney May 12, 1983
	Another Hildebrand weekend on a Jersey beach	Barbara
	Don't know who this is			Recycling before they started paying us for it July, 1983
	At the Cataumet tennis courts	Beatrice Bruce Blakeman Karstad Elizabeth Leal Giebel	Virginia Leal Blakeman Randall with (maybe) Chris Thurlby	Leal Randall
		Scott and Wendy Burns, Bebe Karstad Katrine Margaret Karstad, Lizzy Giebel	Cataumet beach	Honey bees moving into their new gabled roof (but not into the room)
	Though sometimes overwhelming, they are harmless	A local bee keeper loaned Van a one way trap. They went away	Monmouth Junction, NJ
			Darby boards the school bus September 12, 1983	Bri welcomes her home
	Closed his store after seven years. Selling off the dregs. (Back into computer programming)	School halloween parade. Darby with Need_Names October 30, 1983
		Monmouth Junction, NJ
		Bri and Catty the kitten		Dar in costume at Thanksgiving
		Squeteague Harbor whitecaps December, 1983	Lawrence Island Cataumet, MA	Van's mom asked him to design and build an enclosure for this tub
	Van worked up a sketch, but his sisters nixed it	Bri decorating the Christmas tree Monmouth Junction, NJ	Need_Name and Bri	December 25, 1983
		Deb, Barbara Hildebrand, Darby and Bri		Stanley, Bri, Barbara
	Red and Darby
	Christmas at Bebe's [ click on the picture to view their names]	Tom Blakeman, Katrine, Darby, KariAnna, Bri, Bebe, Virginia Blakeman	Princeton, NJ December 25, 1983	Beatrice Bruce Blakeman Karstad, Virginia Davidson Blakeman
1984	Darby's birthday February 07, 1984	Barbara Hildebrand, John Giles Jr, Darby, Virginia Giles Monmouth Junction, NJ	Bri, KariAnna and Katrine and Bebe Karstad	Ginny Giles, Darby, John Giles and John Lawrence Tomas Giles, Red Hildebrand
	Ginny, Debra and Darby, John Giles Jr, Red	Ginny, Deb and Dar, Red	Ginny, Deb, John Giles, Darby, John Giles Jr, Red	KariAnna, John, Barbara, Darby and Debra, Ginny
	Red, John Giles, Debra, John Giles Jr, Bebe, Darby February 07, 1984	Red, KariAnna, Bri, Katrine and Bebe		Balloons on the mailbox May 12, 1984
	Bri's 3rd birthday party May 12, 1984	Brianny Davidson Blakeman	Tulips and a figurine
	Darby, John Giles Jr and Hannah Giles, Bri and Barbara		Darby and Bri, Barbara and Deb
		Virginia and Hannah Giles, Darby and Bri and Barbara	[ click on the picture to view their names]	John Giles, Bebe, Katrine and KariAnna Karstad, Ginny and John Jr and Hannah Giles, Darby
	Stanley Hildebrand	Bebe, Katrine and KariAnna, Ginny, Darby and Bri, Barbara, Deb and Red	Ginny and Hannah Giles, Bri and Barbara Hildebrand
	KariAnna, Ginny, Darby and Bri, Barbara	KariAnna, Ginny, Darby, Bri, Barbara
	KariAnna and Debra	Katrine and Bri eating the birthday cake May 12, 1984		June, 1984
	Catty the doll	Bri not asleep on the couch
	Van and Catty This was a comfortable couch	Bobby Stover, Darby and Aaron Stover at the Stover house Pennington, NJ July, 1984	On the beach in Cataumet, MA August, 1984	A freighter and boats passing by Mashnee Island August 23, 1984
	Van's first view of the canal from the bottom of his street on Mashnee	The canal-side beach and Hog Island on the causeway	The canal-side beach on Mashnee Island	From Hog Island, the canal beach on the causeway to Mashnee
	The Cape Cod Canal as seen from Hog Island on the Mashnee dyke	Their new home at 47 Wianno Rd as seen from the tennis courts	In back of their new home at 47 Wianno Rd, Mashnee Island, MA
	The front yard		Not their stuff


			Bri back home in Monmouth Junction, NJ

	Their last Halloween in Monmouth Junction		Have begun moving some stuff to Mashnee November, 1984	Moved in around 12/01/84. This is Christmas. Mashnee Island, MA
	Bri and Darby at their Christmas tree December 25, 1984
				Brianny enjoying Christmas in her sunny new home
		Erich Martin Giebel, Virginia Blakeman, Debra and Leal's friend Ed Wells	Erich, Need_Name (Hannah's date), Virginia, Deb, Hannah, Dar, Ed in Cataumet, MA	Virginia Leal Blakeman Randall, Hannah, Tom Blakeman and Elizabeth Giebel
	Virginia, Deb and Bri, Ed and Leal Randall	Ginny Blakeman, Deb, Hannah Giles, Dar, Ed, Liz, Leal, Tom	Tom Blakeman, Liz Giebel, Hannah and her mother Virginia	Elizabeth Leal Giebel, Hannah Giles, Virginia and Erich
	Darby	Erich		Van made this outdoor butcher block table of mahogany garden stakes for his mother April, 1985
1985	Brianny Davidson Blakeman	Building a shower stall in back of their new home at 47 Wianno Rd, Mashnee Island, MA	Plumbing a clothes washer into the hallway	May, 1985
		Van was hired by Ed Wells to make this bookcase		Catty
	Virginia Leal Blakeman Randall Darby Dale Blakeman, Ed Wells, Bri Blakeman	Leal Randall, Ed Wells Virginia Davidson Blakeman and Bri	Bri's 4th birthday May 12, 1985

			Name unknown
	Bri and granfather Thomas Ledyard Blakeman	June, 1985

	Pepper the kitten and Catty the cat			August, 1985
	Darby and need other names Cataumet Camp end of summer skit			Pippin the puppy March 17, 1987
		Christmas December 25, 1985
			Pippin the puppy, Van, Darby and Bri

				Barbara and Red Hildebrand at Christmas
			Bri, Leal, Darby, Virginia Cataumet, MA
	Christmas dinner Mashnee Island, MA	Bri and Debra, Barbara, Dar Monopoly at the Hildebrands		Well, I think it's a Christmas tree
1986	Hildebrand plants in their natural solarium	Mashnee Island, MA	January, 1986
		Darby Blakeman and Brianny Davidson Blakeman and mom Debra J Hildebrand Blakeman	Darby's birthday February 07, 1986	Darby and Brianny Blakeman with Abby the dog
		Catty March, 1986	Bri, Dar and paternal grandmother Virginia Davidson Blakeman	Brianny's birthday May 12, 1986
		Bri and cousin Elizabeth Leal Giebel	Aunt Virginia Leal Blakeman Randall and Liz Giebel
	Friends Dave Toppin's son and self with the girl's maternal grandfather Stanley Hildebrand	Need_Names with Bri Bourne school, MA	December, 1986	Brianny Blakeman and classmates dancing on a Christmas stage


		Their home at 47 Wianno Road December 25, 1986	A Hildebrand wreath over the mantle	Mashnee Island, MA
	Stanley Hildebrand, Debra Hildebrand Blakeman Barbara Hildebrand, Darby and Bri	Bri, Deb, Red Hildebrand, Barbara, Darby	Dad Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman and Bri
	Pippin the dog, Van and Bri		Barbara and Red with Darby
	Christmas cards and stockings over the wood stoved fireplace	Snowed in on Wianno Road Photos by Barbara Hildebrand	January, 1987
1987	Darby, Pippin and Van shoveling		Red
				Van and Pippin
			Deb wiping her folk's car


	Red and Barbara playing cards		St Augustine, FL	February, 1987
	Authentic Old Drug Store Museum	St. Augustine's horse carriages		Where was this building?
	The Ponce de Leon hotel	Darbydale Ave Woodbridge, VA		Eileen Delaney in front of Ed and Eileen's new Virginia home. Need location
		Darby Dale Blakeman's birthday February 07, 1987	Leal Randall, Brianny and Darby, Red Mashnee Island, MA
		Barbara, Name unknown, Deb, unknown, Bri		April, 1987
			Pippin the dog	Need_Name and Bri Easter bunny girls
		Barbara and Abby the dog	Barbara's photo film wheel packages that are probably on these pages	Bri and Need_Names
	Bri's birthday. May 12, 1987			Bri, Barbara Hildebrand, Virginia Blakeman and Pippin
		Pippin, Deb, Dar, Bri and Ed Wells		Need Names and location June, 1987
			Photos by Barbara Hildebrand	Andy Monteleone at the Stover house Pennington, NJ
	Abby the dog, I think		Need locations:
		An ocean beach and eelgrass	A long ocean road
	Hildebrand's gardens Mashnee Island, MA	July, 1987	Blue Hydrangeas	Darby cracked her arm on a Cataumet Club tennis court iron post
				Bri in costume July 04, 1987
	Mashnee Island, MA	Darby and Brianny and Need_Name July 4 parade	Darby at the YMCA Camp Rotary July, 1987	Boxford, MA
	Hillside staircase built by Van for Shirley Delisle	Van and Darby and Brianny Falmouth, MA	August, 1987
	On a dock at the bottom of the staircase with retractable steps	With landings	Red Hildebrand
		Neighbor Mrs Cruise, Deb, Dar, Bri	Brianny boarding the school bus September 14, 1987	Mashnee Island, MA

		Bri and Need_Names. Prior to the Halloween parade at the Bourne Middle School	October 31, 1987	Inspired Halloween costumes
		Catty, dead November, 1987	Names unknown, Darby and Bri	Location and date unknown
	Guessing Thanksgiving November 26, 1987	Angelic Bri on skates. Bourne, MA December, 1987	A Bourne Skating Club Christmas show on ice
				Bourne Skating Club, MA
	Christmas		Hildebrand plants January, 1988	Mashnee Island, MA
1988	Names unknown with Darby			Closet cabinets and shelving built for Arnett Peccini
	Mattapoisett, MA	March - May, 1988
	Installing drainage at the Murphy home on Mashnee Island, MA	Then attaching the frame for a deck to the house	May, 1988
	Catty lives across the street. Van has moved to his own place nearby.		Rebuilt the front entryway of the Murphy home June, 1988	Bri's birthday May 12, 1988
	Brianny, Deb and Darby biking around Bar Harbor, ME	Acadia National Park near Bar Harbor, ME	June, 1988

			Otter Cove Stone Bridge, Loop Road Acadia National Park	Bri in Cataumet Club sweatshirt Mashnee Island, MA July, 1988
	Bri with a professionally painted face	August, 1988	The girls and dad collected this trash from the shores of Mashnee Island, MA September, 1988	Installed a shelving unit for the Pappas family
	September, 1988	Preparing to install a shower stall for the Pappas family		Mashnee Island, MA
			Van did much carpentry for his folks through the '80s November, 1988	Rebuilt their corner porch Cataumet, MA
	Outdoor shower stall behind the garage	Installed a storm door unit	Reassembled a trellis around his mother's delicate wisteria vines	A corner shelf for an antique 3-part mirror
	A retractable TV shelf within a cabinet previously built by carpenter Reg Swift	A sofa end shelf	Need location Looks like December, 1988	Cat in the bird feeder Need location
	Girlfriend Patty Dancer in my rental on Leeward Rd, Mashnee Island, MA	Katrine and Bri making music and dancing Cataumet, MA	Katrine and Darby making music	Bri's Christmas school show costume Mashnee Island, MA


		Bourne, MA December, 1988	Someone forgot to hit inside shut-off valve on Van's folks' outdoor faucet	Cataumet, MA
		Christmas December 25, 1988	Mashnee Island, MA

			Cataumet, MA
	Bri, Dar and paternal grandfather Tom Blakeman
		Dar, Bri, Virginia and Tom
		December 25, 1988
1989	Pippin the dog and Brianny Davidson Blakeman Mashnee Island, MA	June, 1989	Reinforcing the Lucas shower wall with insulating spray foam	Uncovered a Lucas drain pipe July, 1989
	The drainage system under the Lucas rear deck	Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman's summer cottage, same property as winter house rental	Brianny Blakeman visiting dad August, 1989
	Biggs the puppy with his sisters and brothers		Debbe Sharpe with her sister Karen Madden and daughter	Jim Madden
			Need_Name	Need_Names. D' Sharpe's extended family
	Van's neice Elizabeth Leal Giebel	Name, place and time unknown	Biggs playing with neighbor's brown lab Mashnee Island, MA August, 1989	Biggs outside their summer home September, 1989
		Before extending the wall above the Cataumet Club's tennis backboard. (No after pic yet) October, 1989	Bri and Need_Name kitten October 23, 1989

				Brianny and Darby Blakeman Halloween
	Bri and Pippin the dog November, 1989			Dar and Catty

			Bri's room
		Nina Stokes June, 1990	Need_Names Party near Falmouth, MA
1990		Stanley Hildebrand Mashnee Island, MA November, 1990	Darby's dad is residing Bernie Rotberg's house May, 1991
1991		June, 1991	Bernie Rotberg's house on the left being shingled by Van Blakeman	Attaching the Pecks new deck to their house July, 1991
	Piping a shower stall for the deck	Framing the deck and shower stall

		With benches	The hinges and latch of the shower stall were a hand made experiment
				Van added a small deck to his winter home rental for the owners
	His winter home on Mashnee Road August, 1991	Writing software for The Emotion Mining Company	Inside his one room summer cottage
				Shallow rooted Locust trees about to topple during Hurricane Bob
	August 19, 1991		Mashnee road on the causeway is under water	The clubhouse parking lot is flooded
	Need_Names	The clubhouse lawn is under water	Some Mashnee properties and the causeway are under water
		A significant chunk of the Mashnee causeway was washed away
	Buzzards Bay surf laps the Pappas trees	The Mashnee end of the Cape Cod canal	Darby Blakeman should not be here. Buzzards Bay surf is still rolling in	A Mashnee road and mailboxes
		The very high Buzzards Bay surf almost reached this Mashnee anchor	Hog Island and the Mashnee causeway

	Replaced the rotted foundation and floor of this shed with pressure treated lumber		September, 1991
		Rebuilt the rotted sill under the Lucas side door	June, 1992
1997	Mo the dog in Van's office East Sandwich, MA	May, 1997
	Van's girlfriend Eileen Kerr managing Gladstone Furniture	East Falmouth, MA		Mo, Bri and Dar East Sandwich, MA

	Pretty girls, Eileen, Brianny and Darby
		... and Missy the cat	Darby in the basement
	Mo, Bri and Dar by the pool		Cottage tenant Al Rosa and landlady Eileen June, 1997	Rebuilding a rotted floor and sagging wall in a 200+/- year old additon to the even older house


			Grant Parsons and Need_Names, Ann Parsons and sister Eileen	Thornbury, Canada
		Mo in back of their East Sandwich home October, 1997	Laying a new walkway with old dug-up brick found under the back yard
1998	Eileen and Van dancing at the Heritage Plantation's rock 'n' roll show in Sandwich, MA June, 1998	Photography compliments of Jane M Robin	Van recreated the Heritage Plantation's membership database system, software and such being his true profession