1943
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Virginia Davidson Blakeman and
Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman
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Kingston, NJ
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Shortly after August 21, 1943
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1944
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Virginia Leal Blakeman, Van Blakeman
and Beatrice Bruce Blakeman
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with Thomas Ledyard Blakeman
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and Virginia D Blakeman.
And in Bebe's hand to the right ...
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"The Children Who Went To New Jersey"
Author might have been VDB
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Princeton, NJ
June, 1944
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June, 1945
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In Stony Brook
July, 1946
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Thomas and Van Blakeman
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1946
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65 Westcott Rd
September, 1946
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On a Cape Cod sand dune
July, 1947
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1947
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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
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Virginia, Hannah and Van Blakeman
dying Easter eggs
April 05, 1953 |
1953
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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
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1955
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Van with Art and Pete Rowe
camping probably in Northern MI
Tom Blakeman taking picture. September, 1955
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Cissy Sloan
J D Martin Sloan |
Bloomfield Hills, MI
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1956
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Their new home for a year on
West Mountain Rd, West Simsbury, CN
May, 1957
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Tucker the Springer Spaniel
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1957
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Van and his pet parakeets
Cataumet, MA
June, 1957
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Janey Douglass on
the Megansett pier
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Freddie Douglass and Hobbit II
Cataumet, MA
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Janey and Freddie
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J D Martin Sloan
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Van Blakeman's foot
Don't know why
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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
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Princeton, NJ
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Cleo the Christmas puppy
December 25, 1958
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1959
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Van's aquarium
March, 1959
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Cleo and Hobbit II
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Hobbit and Tom Blakeman
March, 1959
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Van's bedroom
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at 95 Wilson Rd, Princeton, NJ
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March, 1959
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Hannah Hall Blakeman
March 29, 1959
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Bebe Blakeman
June, 1959
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Leal Blakeman
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Virginia Davidson Blakeman
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Marty Sloan, Mt Rushmore, SD
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Need a name
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Virginia Blakeman
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Yellowstone National Park, WY
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The Sweetgrass Ranch
Melville, MT
July, 1959
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Phillis and Tom Blakeman
Mother and son
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Virginia and Tom watching a rodeo clown
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Marty Sloan
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Van Blakeman
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The Sweetgrass ranch house
Melville, MT
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Janey Douglass on the Megansett pier
in North Falmouth, MA
August, 1959 |
Beach party, probably on Lawrence Island
Cataumet, MA
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Freddie Douglass on the bow of their motorboat
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Squeteague harbor
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Squeteague harbor beetle cats
Cataumet, MA
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On the ferry boat to Marthas Vineyard
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Edgartown Harbor
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Gay Head
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Marty and Van on the ferry boat
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Biking MV and staying at a
Marthas Vineyard hostel
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Old Silver Beach
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in Falmouth, MA
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Van took her to her prom
probably near Birmingham, MI
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Cannot recall her name
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September, 1959
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Marty digging a drainage trench
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The Sloan's new home
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Back at the Wilson Rd house
Princeton, NJ
June, 1960 |
Leal
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Tom Blakeman and Prince
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1960
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Hannah Blakeman
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CMA-Ann-DonaldCMA-Bill-Donald-IIICMA-Bill-Donald-II__MF_Film_05_007__.jpg "Elli Donald (Hawks), Ann Donald, Bill Donald III, Bill Donald II. The Cayuse Livestock Company. Melville, MT. August, 1960")
Elli Donald (Hawks) and Ann Donald
Bill Donald III and Bill Donald II
August, 1960 |
CMA-Ann-DonaldCMA-Bill-Donald-IIICMA-Bill-Donald-II_cut__MF_Film_05_007__.jpg "Elli Donald (Hawks), Ann Donald, Bill Donald III, Bill Donald II. The Cayuse Livestock Company. Melville, MT. August, 1960")
Elli Donald (Hawks) and Ann Donald
Bill Donald III and Bill Donald II
August, 1960 |
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Ranch hand, Sarge Hoem
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Ranch hand, Van Blakeman
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A roll-over on the way home from the
ranch put his left leg in a full cast
and a dent in his head
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Van made this target for Hannah
Princeton, NJ
December 25, 1960 |
1961
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September, 1961
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near Princeton
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Diana Berrie
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His 1939 Packard
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Jody Kerssenbrock
December, 1961
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Hubert W Giebel and Leal Blakeman
engaged
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95 Wilson Rd
Princeton, NJ
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Carole Farley with George Wood
and Ruthie Seyfarth
December 09, 1961
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David Johnson
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Need a name
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Need names
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Bleak winter view from the house
Princeton, NJ
December 09, 1961 |
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Diana Berrie
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Nick Long
Need her name
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1962
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'Beaver' Johnson and brothers, NYC
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Thomas Ledyard Blakeman
Beatrice Bruce Blakeman
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Jody Kerssenbrock
Need his name
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On his way to a friend's
farm in Nebraska
March, 1962 |
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Between Lyons and Bancroft, NE
April, 1962
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Van on his way to a shower
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Larry Kjeldgaard
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Dehorning the cattle ...
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... before they poke each
other's eyes out
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Nona Kjeldgaard
Need daughter's name
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Need son's name
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Their babysitter
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Need her name
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December 25, 1962
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One year later
December 25, 1963
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1964
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Boot camp graduation parade
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USMC, Parris Island, SC
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June 11, 1964
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US Marine Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman
showing his folks the obstacle course
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US Marine Van Blakeman
USMC, San Diego, CA November, 1964 |
Marching to Communication-Electronics
Radio Relay classroom
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Entering their school
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This may be George Morris,
some have said "Van's twin"
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Not sure who this is
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George Babbage and Tom Collins
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Their quonset huts - home
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Quonset hut supply depot
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Van
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Need his name
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Radio Relay class-10-night-65
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Opens a normal screen size photo
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Opens an enormous photo
Use your scroll bars to find an individual
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After a "Junk on the Bunk"
inspection
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November 10, 1964
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Marsha Lynn Fink
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The Marine Corps birthday
November 10, 1964
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December, 1964
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Marsha Lynn Fink Blakeman and
Van Blakeman, just married |
William and May Fink
with daughter and son-in law
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Winter Haven, CA
December 12, 1964
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With her sister and brother-in-law
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San Diego, CA
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Flying east. December 20, 1964
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With Virginia Leal Blakeman Giebel
Princeton, NJ.
December 24, 1964 |
2338 Moore St, San Diego, CA
Their first home
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1965
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February, 1965
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Graduated and transferred
Moving to El Toro
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Unpacking in their new home
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Keeping some things packed
in case he ships to Vietnam
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566 Canyon Acres Dr
Laguna Beach, CA
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Marsha Blakeman modeling
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Los Angeles, CA
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July, 1965
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Marine air show, El Toro, CA
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1966
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Radio relay field exercises
Camp Pendleton, CA
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Flying east. June, 1966
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Visiting folks at
95 Wilson Rd, Princeton, NJ
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Marsha
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US Marine Van Blakeman
June, 1966 |
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Flying out of New York
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The engine died. He tried to rebuild it. Failed.
And then it got stoned to death
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More field exercises
Camp Pendleton
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227 1/2 Agate Ave, Balboa Island,
Newport Beach, CA after separation
from Marsha and then from the Marines
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Flying east about December 20, 1966
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Visiting the folks at Christmas
95 Wilson Rd, Princeton, NJ
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1967
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Van's parting shot as Marines prepare
for Vietnam (that's not him)
>> I do need names <<
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Good friend Joan helps Van
celebrate his discharge
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New home
227 1/2 Agate Ave, Balboa Island, CA
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Gille Flemier of France, visiting a neighbor.
A casual friend Van met on the island.
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Good friends, Esther Wellington
David Walden Young |
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The Mark Davidson Trio
Corona Del Mar, CA
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Hobbit the puppy
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Van got Hobbit from his
previous landlady in Laguna
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Elaine Blakely, classmate, pristine voice
.. Rub your belly and pat your head ..
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She went on to sing professionally
with The Doodletown Pipers
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Housemate Pierce Shannon
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Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman
and Gille Flemier |
Van's Opel Rekord and Shannon's Renault
in back of their home at ...
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227 1/2 Agate Ave, Balboa Island, CA
May, 1966
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The Huntington Beach Pier
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The Manhattan Beach Pier
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Carmen Del Valle
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Pierce
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Don't recall her name
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Flying east, July, 1967
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Hobbit
Princeton, NJ
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Sally Morey, Hannah Blakeman, Bob Carrick
and Hobbit
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Sally Morey, Van and Hannah Blakeman,
Hobbit and Hannah's dog Prince
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Antique copper cauldron
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Downpour in Princeton
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Stony Brook
July 1967
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Virginia Blakeman's watercolor of
Melville, Montana's Porcupine Butte |
A rusted vent under the front stoop
Well, why not?
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Beatrice Bruce Blakeman
Trenton, NJ
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Holder Hall, Princeton University
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Princeton High School 1967
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Princeton, NJ graveyard
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Sally Morey
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Cool jazz, maybe near Princeton
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Hannah Blakeman and friend, with Hobbit
August, 1967
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The Bourne Bridge
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Sky over Cataumet, MA
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Lawrence Island in the mist
Cataumet, MA
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Squeteague Harbor
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August, 1967
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10 Squeteague Harbor Rd
Cataumet, MA
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Cleo the Beagle
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Thomas Ledyard Blakeman
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Erich and Elizabeth Leal Giebel,
Virginia Leal Blakeman Giebel,
Tom Blakeman in the garage
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Erich Martin Giebel
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Hobbit the dog
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Leal and Elizabeth Giebel
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Liz and Erich Giebel
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Virginia Davidson Blakeman
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Antique ship's navigation sextant
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Leal and friend, Tom, Virginia,
Van and Hannah Blakeman |
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Antique chain lamp
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The Grasslands in Cataumet
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August 15, 1967
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Erich
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Imitating Grandfarfar
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Grandfarfar, Tom Blakeman
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The annual Cataumet Camp skit
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That may be Liz Giebel on the left
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NEED NAMES!
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??, and Debbie Laurie
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Tappan Zee Bridge. New York.
August, 1967
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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.
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The NJ Turnpike. New York - Newark stretch
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Ginny and Tom Blakeman
Newark Airport
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Flying west
August, 1967
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The afterburn
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Van's 1958 Plymouth Royal coupe
on Agate Ave. Balboa Island, CA
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The pathway from Agate Ave to
Van's home in back
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Home-made doors to keep Hobbit in
September, 1967
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Van's back patio
Balboa Island, CA
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Van's aquarium; an occasional
moment of peace
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Robin, a lovely 'young' neighbor in love with
Van. He gently kept her at arms length.
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Experimental photograpy
Balboa Island, CA
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Van's candle sculpture; another
occasional moment of peace
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Man fishing from the pier
August, 1967 |
Under the Balboa pier
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Balboa Peninsula
Newport Beach, CA
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Tihuana Hills
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Vietnam protest group outside the
El Toro Marine Corps rifle range
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An aspiring writer and his dog
Balboa Island, CA
September, 1967
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Sending off a manuscript
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A hallway inside Orange Coast College
Costa Mesa, CA
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October, 1967
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New housemate
British transplant Carol Ashworth
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A Dolphin fountain possibly in
Costa Mesa, CA
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Smoke from Paseo Grande fire
hangs over Newport Beach
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October 29, 1967
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Fire in the Paseo Grande hills
Tustin, CA
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Interesting sky somewhere in Orange County, CA
October 30, 1967
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Mildred Hodgeman cleaning the place
in exchange for fixing her appliances
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Moving
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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
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Possibly the San Juan Creek
along the Ortega Highway
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Newport Beach, CA skyline at night
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Virginia Blakeman overlooking
Laguna Beach, CA
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Laguna seas
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Van's favorite daily (come hell or high water)
swimming beach
(where he had almost drowned in rough seas) |
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Virginia Blakeman
Mission San Juan Capistrano
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Loving girlfriend for awhile
Consuelo Wingard
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About 25 years after Steinbeck
Cannery Row, CA
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At Van's new home
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His 'Youve got mail' contraption
240 E. 15th St
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Costa Mesa, CA
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Flying over Newport Harbor in CA
December 09, 1967
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Visiting UCSC Santa Cruz
considering enrollment
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Flying out of LAX
about December 20, 1967
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The Delaware river between
Lambertville, NJ and New Hope, PA
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The Battle Monument
Princeton, NJ
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Diana Berrie and Van Blakeman
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Erich Martin Giebel clowning around
Princeton, NJ
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Van's uncle John Letchworth Church
Tom Blakeman's half-brother
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Leal Giebel
Van's oldest sister
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Tom Blakeman and friends. His mother, Charlotte Phillips Van Cleve Church and Jody Kerssenbrock at the piano
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Jody Kerssenbrock singing
Pianist's name unknown
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Christmas stocking on Van's bureau
December 25, 1967
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Virginia and Hannah Blakeman, Jody, Tom Blakeman, Phillis Blakeman Church and Bebe Blakeman |
Opening Xmas stockings
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Hannah Blakeman
The Christmas tree is off limits until after breakfast |
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Hannah, Virginia and Bebe Blakeman, Jody Kerssenbrock, Tom Blakeman and his mother Phillis Church
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Gifts Van received
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Bebe Blakeman, Phillis Church, Tom Blakeman, Jody Kerssenbrock, Van and Hannah Blakeman |
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Snow in the back yard
95 Wilson Rd, Princeton, NJ
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Flying west
December 29, 1967
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1968
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Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman
getting a haircut
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Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach, CA
March, 1968 |
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Approaching the hill to Joshua Tree, CA
on Highway 62
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Van got a loan and bought this place
on March 19, 1968
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Hobbit providing some perspective
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This $50 Branstrator trailer will
become Van's home away from home
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Hobbit and Tibboh
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Tibboh was only with us for a few months
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Passing through Indio
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Back home in Costa Mesa
rebuilding the trailer
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Home at 240 E 15th St, Costa Mesa, CA.
June, 1968
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Van Blakeman
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Van's big doors find another purpose
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Dr Charles J Galbo. Newport Beach, CA
Van's respected guide and mentor |
Flying east around July 31, 1968
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Thomas Ledyard Blakeman was told to smile
Cataumet, MA
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Jody Kerssenbrock
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John Letchworth Church and Tom Blakeman
August, 1968
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Van's bedroom in the garage - full house
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Van's folk's driveway at
10 Squeteague Harbor Road
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A driftwood garden
Cataumet, MA
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A roof
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Cars in the front lawn
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A wind chime sculpture
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A tree
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Tom and daughter Virginia Leal Blakeman Giebel
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Dancing a boogie woogie
at a weekend bottle party
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Ginny and Tom Blakeman
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These people could swing!
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Their 'stink pot' in Squeteague Harbor
Cataumet, MA
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Van about to go spearfishing
in Megansett Harbor
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Flying west
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Rebuilding his Branstrator trailer
Costa Mesa, CA
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September, 1968
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His Willys Jeep
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Good friends Bill Tinkey and Les Ingledue,
two members of his writing group at OCC
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Van's cool jazz chair.
Yes, he was trying to make this pic weird
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His bedroom. Note the jerry-rigged mike
and speaker for talking on the phone
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An Elephant Ear tree
in his back yard
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Experiments in photography
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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
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David Walden Young at
Hussong's, Ensenada, MX
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The pretty girls ALWAYS zeroed in
on Dave, the attorney |
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The mens urinal at Hussong's
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A loaner from Dave's court clerk
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Horse riders on the beach
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An Ensenada sunset
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The Mexican Navy in Ensenada harbor
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A Mexican soldier
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Billboard for Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin
San Diego, CA
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Newport Beach sunset
October, 1968
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Foggy moon in a tree
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A boulevard at night
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Experiment in photography
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A Willys Jeep towbar and headlight at night
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An architectural cross on a chimney
Probably Laguna Beach, CA
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Photography assignment
November, 1968
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Experiments in photography
for his class at OCC
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He ripped old fence boards to
make this sculpture
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A dry pond on Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA
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Laguna Canyon Road from above
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His Willys Jeep in a
precarious postion
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Willys Jeep tire on his house trailer roof vent
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Hired to photograph Ernie's rock band
Orange County, CA
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Van's 1st photo job.
Can't remember Ernie's last name
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With Barbara
December, 1968
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Portrait assignment
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Dr Charles J Galbo and names forgotten
Group party in Van's home.
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Sheila Goldes, Barbara and Hobbit. Need Names.
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Flying east
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Trains from NY to Princeton, NJ
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Antique TriX camera shots
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Beatrice Bruce Blakeman and dad Tom Blakeman
December 25, 1968
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Bebe and Hannah Hall Blakeman
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Erich and Leal Giebel
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Hannah Blakeman
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Elizabeth and Leal Giebel
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Uncle Robert Bruce Davidson
reading Playboy
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Beatrice Bruce Blakeman, Virginia Davidson Blakeman,
Hannah Hall Blakeman |
Bebe, Virginia and Hannah Blakeman
opening Christmas gifts
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A 95 Wilson Road Christmas
Princeton, NJ
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Antique copper cauldron
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The Nassau Christian Church
Princeton, NJ
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Holder Hall
Princeton University
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A neighbor's dog 'Bear' had jumped the fence
in September and impregnated Hobbit
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Flying west. December 31, 1968
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1969
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Hobbit and Bear's litter
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Costa Mesa, CA
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February, 1969
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A girl named Carol modeling for his photo assignment
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
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Linda
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Nancy
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OCC
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Newport Beach, CA
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Where is this bridge??
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OCC
March, 1969
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Patty
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Van's new home
April, 1969 |
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Van got a full time job in Laguna and attended
programming classes at night in Santa Ana |
389 Loma Terrace
Laguna Beach, CA
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He built this gate from an old discarded OCC
fence to keep an obnoxious landlady out
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View from his house
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A random drive one weekend brought
him through Mammoth Lakes
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Do not recall this party
Probably someone else's negative
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Do not know these good people
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Also probably someone else's negatives
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1970
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Van's 10 acres and trailer
in Joshua Tree, CA
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Then bought 2.5 acres in Mojave, CA
January, 1970
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Mohave neighbors
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I-5 construction near Palmdale, CA
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Lake Palmdale
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Bought this hand carved eagle in Baja, Mexico
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February, 1969
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Joshua Tree, CA
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Just moved the trailer to his land
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Found this tank at a renovating laundrymat in
Costa Mesa. They let him take it away, free!
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Bought this '49 Willys Jeep to tow the trailer
from Costa Mesa up the hill to Joshua Tree
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Bought this Chevy Nova so he could return
east to find a programming job.
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Saying goodby to housemate
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Mesa Automotive agreed to store the Jeep
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The Colorado River
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He met a girl, Debra J Hildebrand, on his new job at
the Western Electric Engineering Research Center
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She agreed on a weekend's trip to the Cape
July, 1970
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Deb Hildebrand, Elizabeth Giebel, Tom and
Virginia Blakeman, Van Blakeman |
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This woman was also visiting his folks.
Can't recall her name but she had a brilliant mind |
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Tom Blakeman and Winston Kellogg
sailing the Kittiwake
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Megansett Harbor, MA
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Martha Douglas and friends quahogging
Squeteague Harbor, MA
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Winston, Deb, Ginny and Need-Name in his small steamboat, Woods Hole, MA |
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Tom Blakeman digging
Cataumet, MA
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Elizabeth Leal Giebel
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Liz Giebel
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Erich Martin Giebel and Hobbit drinking from
a clear natural spring |
Above Squeteague Harbor |
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Erich in a tree
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Lizzy Giebel sitting at the natural spring
below her grandparent's home
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On the dock in Squeteague Harbor
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Erich boating
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Hobbit meets a lobster
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Liz inside her grandmother's
driftwood sculpture
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Deb Hildebrand and her folks are
visiting friends in Enfield, ME
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The Desert of Maine in Freeport
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The former Lincoln Theater in Maine
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Andrew and Josephine Monteleone
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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
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On the corner of Highway Route 1 and ...
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Monmouth Junction, NJ |
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August 11, 1970
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Even his folks helped clean the place and
his dad dug a trench for the new water line
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His new home includes a cottage behind the trees
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A trap door in the kitchen goes
to a full sized basement
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This is exciting
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Brother-in-law Kaare Karstad flys him overhead
to get pictures of his 3/4 acre property
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At one time, this was a rock crushing plant.
Some of the concrete mounts are still in
place between the house and the cottage.
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Van and his girlfriend Deb fly west to visit California
March 31, 1971
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1971
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Flowering Prickly Pear cactus
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High Desert area, CA
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April, 1971
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Creosote bush and Ocotillo plant
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Desert Dandelion
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Mormon Tea
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Ocotillo plant and Creosote bush
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Ocotillo
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Stork's Bill Filaree
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Teddy Bear Cholla
Joshua Tree National Park, CA
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Flowering Ocotillo cactus
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Cottonwood Spring Oasis
April, 1971
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Inside the oasis |
Keys view
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Intersection of Hwy 62 and Park Blvd
Joshua Tree, CA |
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Van's Branstrator trailer
under a sun roof |
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Mount San Jacinto, CA
April, 1971 |
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Overlooking Palm Springs
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Debra J Hildebrand
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Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman
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Cable car
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Coffmans Crag
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Overlooking Palm Springs
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High Desert area
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The San Juan creek
along the Ortega highway
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Above and beyond Elsinore
on the way to San Juan Capistrano
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South Laguna shoreline
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Racing fleet of sail boats passing by
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Cliff hugging staircase and cave
below 40 N La Senda Drive
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Carved ocean pools
Three Arch Bay |
Concrete ocean pool and cabana
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Kris and Lee Bower, Van, David Walden Young
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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
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Visiting Marsha and May Fink
San Diego, CA
April 22, 1971 |
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Flying east about April 23, 1971
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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 |
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Van and Deb visit the old farmstead of
his late maternal grandparents
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Near the canal bridge in Bourne, MA
September 12, 1971 |
The Bourne Bridge
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Kaare Karstad visiting
10 Squeteague Harbor Rd, Cataumet, MA |
This almost looks like Route 6
into Provincetown, MA
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Squeteague Harbor
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The Blakeman home is in the center
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Kaare Karstad sailing his boat with
Debra Blakeman and don't know who else
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Megansett Harbor, MA
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Spohr Gardens
Falmouth, MA
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Nobska Point Lighthouse
Woods Hole, MA |
Ferry boat to Nantucket
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Early 20th century cottage behind the
ferry landing in Woods Hole |
Cobblestone street with fountain
Nantucket, MA
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It's their honeymoon, okay?
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On the honeymoon boat from Nantucket
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Back home in Monmouth Junction, NJ
November, 1971 |
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Cracked Chevy Nova windshield
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Fall leaves on their back yard
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Installing a driveway
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Added a stained glass skylight, found in a
New Brunswick, NJ house wreaking yard
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Adding an external closet
to the bedroom cottage
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Christmas wreath on the front door
December 25, 1971
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Their new kitten
cuddles with Hobbit
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'Cat'
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The stained glass bathroom skylight (under plate glass)
is covered with snow
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1972
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Building a chair-wall
July, 1972 |
Megansett Harbor, MA
August, 1972 |
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Squeteague Harbor and Lawrence Island
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Sketching a plan for their NJ home
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Van's folk's home
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Thomas Ledyard Blakeman
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Deb Blakeman, Alice Bebout,
Tom Blakeman and John Giles
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Painting their home in
Monmouth Junction, NJ |
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New soil for the corner lot which the town
provided for letting them round off the corner
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Spreading it around
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Built this stone wall to
surround the septic tank |
The house has been painted and
the cottage has new cedar siding |
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The back yard in the woods
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Blue the kitten and Cat the almost cat
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On a stone wall in the back yard
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Blue attacking the antique trunk
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Working on his penny collection
August, 1972
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A bronze handle and mail slot on a door
found at the wreaking yard covered in paint |
Stripped the paint, stained and polished
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Somewhere in the northeast
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Maple syrup country
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Where is this wooden bridge?
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Sanibel Island, FL
September 12, 1972
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Disneyworld, Orlando, FL
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Key West, FL
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Long Key Viaduct, FL
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Daytona Beach, FL
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__02_Negs_03_049__.jpg "The Florida ocean. Daytona Beach, FL. September 15, 1972")
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St. Petersburg, FL
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Castillo de San Marcos Spanish fort
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A Bucks County covered bridge in New Jersey
December, 1972
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Bowmans Tower
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Delaware River from Bowmans Tower
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Gravestone of Dale C Hildebrand
Deb Blakeman's brother
"1946 - 1966" |
Steps from the kitchen door
to the cottage crosswalk
Monmouth Junction, NJ |
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Inside their bedroom cottage
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Doors to the closet addition
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The closet pole hangs from and
rolls along a ceiling channel
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Chestnut beveled glass french doors
open to the rear deck and yard |
The doors were found in a New Brunswick, NJ
house wreaking yard |
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December, 1972
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Their Christmas
December 25, 1972
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A Stover Christmas
Robert, Bobby and Geri Stover
with Barbara Hildebrand |
Aaron Stover in the Hildebrand home
Pennington, NJ |
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Bobby Stover and Stanley Hildebrand
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Need_Name with Bobby,
Geri and Aaron Stover
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Barbara, Van, Need_Name, Red Hildebrand
and Robert, Geri and Bobby Stover
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1973
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A Golden Arborvitae, mailbox and lamp on a
hollow wood post, and a tiered timber wall
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1 Richard Rd, Monmouth Junction, NJ
July, 1973 |
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Blue the white cat
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Van is rebuilding his box trailer
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He found it in a vacant lot near his home
on Balboa Island around 1967
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He bought this trailer for $35 worth of labor from a
respected and liked friend Harvey D Pease
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Harvey was also the realtor that collected his rent
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Squeteague Harbor
Cataumet, MA
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Lawrence Island
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Thomas Ledyard Blakeman and
Virginia Davidson Blakeman
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Hobbit the dog
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Van Blakeman driving the motorboat
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Debra J Blakeman
has caught a Bluefish |
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John Letchworth Church, Van and Tom
and Virginia Blakeman with Sy Kano |
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Serving at tennis on the clay court
Cataumet, MA
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Deb sailing Win Kellogg's boat through
Long Island Sound
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August, 1973
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Winston Kellogg
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Win Kellogg sailing the Kittiwake
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Where is this?
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Coast Guard Lighthouse
Buzzards Bay
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Doing the books
Monmouth Junction, NJ
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August, 1973
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Blue the white cat
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"Think Shaklee" on their corner lot. They
were really into selling it at the time.
Truly excellent natural products. |
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December, 1973
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Their bedroom cottage
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A Cardinal in the new snow
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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
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Ocean view from the rear deck
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Had bought it 8/16/1973 sight unseen on
David and Cici Young's recommendation |
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They decided to stay
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Some of these pics were actually taken
after Van's return (see below). Oh well. |
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Adjacent to Bill and
Bernice Bailey's home
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His Willy's Jeep had been in storage at Mesa
Automotive, near where they got off the bus |
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The hills above their new home
in South Laguna |
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The back neighbor's roof was close enough
to walk across and take pictures |
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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
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Their Monmouth Junction basement holds the stuff
he couldn't fit into the stationwagon and trailer |
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Monmouth Junction, NJ
February, 1974 |
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Everything is packed.
Heading west!
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Snow and a small stream in the back yard
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On the road to California
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A Shaklee Basic-H sign is
discovered along the way. |
Deb and Hobbit sitting on a bluff
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above Thousand Steps Beach
South Laguna, CA
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May, 1974
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A Need_Name Pier and the Laguna Lido on
Thousand Steps Beach below Mission Hospital |
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Where was this concrete
pier-wall with deck?
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Red flowered Aloe cryptopoda and California
Iceplant succulents protect the bluff |
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What is this in the hills possibly above South
Laguna? A pink fiberglass helicopter cabin? |
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A trash dump in the hills above
South Laguna or maybe El Toro
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Aliso Canyon
May, 1974
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Yellow flowers on a Prickly Pear cactus
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A white Hedge Morning Glory
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What is this orange-pink flower
on a vine or long stem?
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Above Aliso Canyon
May, 1974
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A deck of box gardens
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A Bird Of Paradise
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Next door neighbor, Bernice Bailey
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Bill Bailey and Hobbit
at driveway gate under construction |
A neighbor's kitten
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An old canvased mission door
Van found in a wreaking yard |
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A roof alcove bench Van rebuilt for Don and
Jane Estep across the street |
-in-her-Laguna-NiguelQMK-condo__Negs_23_065__.jpg "A shelving unit Van built for Carole (Need Name) in her Laguna Niguel? condo. South Laguna, CA. Maybe July, 1974")
A shelving unit Van built for Carole (Need Name)
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-in-her-Laguna-NiguelQMK-condo__Negs_23_066__.jpg "A shelving unit Van built for Carole (Need Name) in her Laguna Niguel? condo. South Laguna, CA. Maybe July, 1974")
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-in-her-Laguna-NiguelQMK-condo__Negs_23_067__.jpg "A shelving unit Van built for Carole (Need Name) in her Laguna Niguel? condo. South Laguna, CA. Maybe July, 1974")
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Barbara and Red Hildebrand, Deb's folks,
on the beach at South Laguna
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August, 1974
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The former Aliso Beach Pier
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Disneyland
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Maybe Wild Animal Kingdom?
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(Need Name of woman and location)
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Need Name of boy and location
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Robinson's at Fashion Island
Newport Beach, CA
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Could be the Statue Of David that later
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__02_Negs_01_078__.jpg "Preparing a luau. Les Lindsey with Need_Names. Orange County, CA. Maybe August, 1974")
Assisting Van's friend Les Lindsey (orange)
and crew in preparing a luau |
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Hawaiian Poi made from boiled taro roots
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Blue the white cat
South Laguna, CA
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Bougainvillea overgrowing their deck
September, 1974 |
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"Cat" in the Bougainvillea
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Their garden paradise on Santa Rosa Dr
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A South Laguna Christmas
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Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman
Debra J Hildebrand Blakeman |
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Stanley Hildebrand, Deb Blakeman
Barbara Hildebrand, Hobbit |
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Keys View
Joshua Tree National Park
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Perhaps a farmer's wood post fence with rickety
gate. Need location. Maybe February, 1975 |
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The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway
to Mount San Jacinto, 1975
Red chickened out
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Central Valley, CA
February, 1975
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Mega flower farms
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On the Balboa ferry
crossing Newport Harbor
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The Balboa Island canal
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Crystal Cove beach
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The town of South Laguna, CA
February, 1975 |
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Barbara, Need_Name and Deb
Laguna Beach, CA |
... and Van and Red
Below Eye To Eye Optical Boutique |
San Juan Capistrano, CA
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San Juan Capistrano, CA
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Dana Point jetty
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Hobbit and Barbara in the
Blakeman's front yard
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South Laguna, CA
February, 1975
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Looking through a flowery
picture window to the deck
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on Santa Rosa Drive
South Laguna, CA
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Through the front gate
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Aliso Pier at sunset
South Laguna, CA |
Miles Standish Staples
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In the hills above South Laguna, CA
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Aliso and Wood Canyons
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Ocean view from the hilltop
February, 1975
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Natural hilltop rock formation
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Wild flowers in the rugged hills
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A Laguna hills windsurfer
loosing altitude fast |
Van climbed the hill in his Jeep and took
the guy and his sail to his car
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Jim Davis used to work with them at the
Western Electric ERC in Lawrenceville, NJ |
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February 15, 1975
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People climbing the hills above
the town of South Laguna |
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May, 1975
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Aliso Beach Pier as seen from
an ancient hilltop water tank |
Aliso Canyon and creek
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A Cholla cactus
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Classic wooden water tank on the hilltop
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1000 Steps Beach, undeveloped,
as seen from the hills |
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Hilltop destruction
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California Sun Cup, maybe
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A living beach terrain
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Sea anemones
South Laguna, CA
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Aliso Canyon from the top of the hill
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No jobs. Had to sell and return East.
Taking stuff to Joshua Tree for storage |
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Keys view
Joshua Tree National Park |
May, 1975 |
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Looks like Peters Canyon Reservoir
in Tustin, CA |
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Rosarito Beach dining in Baja California
June, 1975 |
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Hobbit with Preggy's litter
South Laguna
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Mysterious Preggy appeared on their
doorstep, weak, hungry and ready to burst
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Van eased them out and cut the cords
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Preggy likes to stay in seclusion
July, 1975
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A garden probably at the Baileys
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Bernice and Bill Bailey with Hobbit
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Miles Standish Staples
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Need_Name. Tom? hired Van to take pictures
July, 1975
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A street in South Laguna
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Deb father's nickname, Red Hildebrand,
on somebody's license plate |
Their bedroom/office window
August, 1975 |
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Front yard and garden. The cobbled
driveway is under construction |
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The driveway was cobbled with Santa Ana River
rock gathered when the river was dry |
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Preggy watches
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Neighbor and friend Dan Hosfeldt's eye for design
guided assembly of this found fencing |
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Matthew the kitten and siblings on top of Deb
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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 |
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Installing a Sears sprinkler line
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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
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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
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Van in the shadows, not happy
Monmouth Junction, NJ
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Christmas 1975
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A light January snowfall on the Arborvitae bushes
January, 1976 |
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A snowfall in the woods
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Preggy's son Matthew, not happy
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Their cottage bedroom in the snow
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Matthew the cat in a basket
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Matthew the cat on aunt Hannah's cushion
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1977
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Blue the white cat under the Asparagus plant
May, 1977
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Bleeding Hearts volunteer in the Arborvitae garden
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Arborvitaes wrap around the corner lawn
Route #1 and 1 Richard Road
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Monmouth Junction, NJ
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Tulip Trees
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Tulip Tree flowers
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Their vegetable garden
June, 1977 |
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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
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The Hildebrand barn and cherry trees
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Clearing space for a cabana
Monmouth Junction, NJ |
Expanding Van's store into the adjacent store.
Princeton Furnishings & Antiques
December, 1977
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1978
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Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman visiting his folks
Cataumet, MA
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February, 1978
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Back in Monmouth Junction, NJ, this potbelly
stove warmed their entire home very nicely |
His old candle-in-a-beach-found-float and
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Found this big mahogany roll-top desk at an auction.
Not their dog; probably dog sitting |
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New sprout on the Schefflera umbrella tree plant
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Debra Blakeman waiting in their shop near
the Princeton hospital during the '78 blizzard |
Darby Dale Blakeman, Age 0
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February 07, 1978
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At home in Monmouth Junction, NJ
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Darby and her paternal great grandmother
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Boy (name needed) with Darby
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Back in Monmouth Junction, NJ
July, 1978 |
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Deb painted vines on their kitchen cabinets
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Adding another
August, 1978
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Van's workbench in the basement
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Experimenting with a high speed
film needing no flash
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Spider webs in the trees
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Painting by Van's sister Hannah H Blakeman
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Fall trees and a red house on a placid lake
Do not know year or location |
Reading the Trenton Times newspaper
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Got a new Ulefos wood stove
December, 1978
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Much, much nicer then the old potbelly
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Winter sky on Richard Road
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Christmas
December 25, 1978 |
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Pepper the cat
February, 1979
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Is this Aaron Stover?
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1979
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Their screened cabana on a redwood platform
in the back yard behind the cottage |
Van chopping small firewood
for the wood stove
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Darby Blakeman, age 1,
February 07, 1979 |
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Deb and Darby are vacationing in California
April, 1979
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This is the South Laguna community park
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Visiting old neighbors Bill and Bernice Bailey
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Their old home next door
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The new owners turned the deck into a dining room
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Bill and Bernice taking Deb to check out the trailer |
Joshua Tree, CA
April 15, 1979
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Bernice Bailey
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with Miles Staples and Willa Bailey Gupta
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Bill and Bernice's back yard
April 17, 1979
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The first 'On Consignment' in their lives. This one in
Laguna Beach. Van opened one in Princeton, NJ |
Back home in Monmouth Junction, NJ
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Maternal grandparents Stanley and Barbara Hildebrand
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Van made this sign for Paul Hill's Fine Foods |
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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
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Monmouth Junction, NJ
May, 1979
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South Brunswick bringing in a new sewer line
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Their Arborvitae corner now includes a stockade
fence discarded by his shop's landlord
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Preparing to lay a second driveway
in back of the cottage
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Ernie Sturgeon did the heavy lifting in exchange for ...
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Red and Barabra's back yard in Pennington, NJ
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Bobby Stover with Dar
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Darby and dad in Squeteague Harbor
Cataumet, MA |
Below his folks home (not visible here)
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With paternal grandmother
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Virginia Davidson Blakeman
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Dar and cousin Erich Martin Giebel
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Paternal grandfather Thomas Ledyard Blakeman
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Ed Delaney and Eileen Delaney
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Best friend neighbors trick-or-treating
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Monmouth Junction, NJ
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aka: On Consignment
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Posing for an article
about the store
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Tom Blakeman, Erich Giebel, Virginia Blakeman,
Deb Blakeman, John Randall, Darby Blakeman,
Leal Blakeman Randall. Thanksgiving |
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Need location. November 22, 1979
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Their Christmas tree
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Monmouth Junction, NJ
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December 25, 1979
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Red Hildebrand, Aaron Stover, Bobby Stover
Geri Stover, Darby, Deb, Barbara
don't recall name, Robert Stover |
1980
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Debra J Hildebrand Blakeman and
Darby Dale Blakeman
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Creating a temporary bedroom for Van and Deb
1 Richard Road, Monmouth Junction, NJ |
Darby's 2nd birthday February 07, 1980
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Bebe Karstad, KariAnna Bergitte Karstad,
Kaare Karstad and Virginia Downey Giles |
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Dar with aunt Hannah Hall Blakeman Giles
and Bobby Stover |
Dar, John Giles, Red Hildebrand, Geri and Robert and Aaron Stover
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Aaron, John, Red, Hannah, Robert, Geri, Deb, Bobby
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Bobby, Aaron, Ginny Giles, Bebe Karstad, KariAnna |
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Hannah, Robert, Geri, Deb |
John, Hannah, Robert, Geri, Deb, Bebe, KariAnna
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John Lawrence Tomas Giles, Dar and Kaare
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John Giles Jr, John Sr, Geri, Barbara
Bobby, Aaron, Deb, Bebe, Kaare
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At Van Blakeman's consignment store
Princeton Furnishings & Antiques |
His home-made sliding felt jewelry rack
March, 1980
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Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman taking what will eventually
become know as a 'selfie' (or testing the film)
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The Holder Memorial Tower
Princeton University, NJ
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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
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Darby and Deb Blakeman in dad's office
June, 1980 |
Van subleased his adjacent store to Leo Arons
next to Princeton Furnishings & Antiques |
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Darby washing dad's van
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July, 1980
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Halloween window display
Princeton Furnishings & Antiques |
October, 1980
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The redwood platform without it's cabana in the
corner yard. Also their new Plymouth Horizon |
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November, 1980
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Barbara Hildebrand and Darby Blakeman and Abby
December 25, 1980 |
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Christmas
Pennington, NJ |
Stanley Hildebrand and Darby
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Christmas at Bebe's house
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Darby and Deb
Princeton, NJ |
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Deb and Darby Blakeman, Bobby Stover
Monmouth Junction, NJ |
Darby's 3rd birthday
February 07, 1981
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1981
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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 |
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Princeton Hospital
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Deb and Bri Blakeman
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Darby in her bunk bed
Monmouth Junction, NJ |
Built by their father to fit over Bri's crib
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Debra J Hildebrand Blakeman and Bri
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Brianny Blakeman and Barbara Hildebrand
A newborn and her maternal grandmother
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May 14, 1981
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Darby and Brianny
May 20, 1981 |
Monmouth Junction, NJ
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June, 1981
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Big sister Darby Dale Blakeman, Deb and Bri
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Bri Blakeman at grandparents home
Pennington, NJ |
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Darby and grandmother Barbara
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Aaron Stover
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Brianny asleep on a Persian rug
August, 1981 |
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At paternal grandparents home in
Cataumet, MA
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All vehicles into the rear driveway, out of the way
Monmouth Junction, NJ |
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Glorstan Builders adding bedrooms
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September 17, 1981
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Glorstan Builders doing interior work
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Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman doing interior work
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The wood stove chimney was removed before construction
October, 1981 |
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Dar asleep in dad's found-at-auction
and reupholstered morris chair
November, 1981 |
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At a school play
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With Santa Claus
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Christmas eve
Monmouth Junction, NJ |
December 24, 1981
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Geri Stover and Bri
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Christmas at Bebe's
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Tommy 'Ledge' Blakeman
Princeton, NJ |
Tom and daughter Hannah Blakeman Giles
December 25, 1981 |
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KariAnna Bergitte Karstad, Debra, Leal Randall,
Ginny Giles, Bebe and Katrine Karstad |
Deb, Liz Giebel, Ginny Blakeman
Darby, Erich Giebel, KariAnna
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Virginia Giles, Deb, Darby, Bri
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KariAnna, Deb, Bri, Darby, Erich
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Liz, Virginia Blakeman, Darby, Erich, KariAnna
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Darby Dale Blakeman
Brianny Davidson Blakeman
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1982
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A Tulip tree wood pile in the snow
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January, 1982
Monmouth Junction, NJ
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Darby Dale Blakeman, Aaron and Geri Stover
Darby's birthday |
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Darby, Katrine Karstad, Geri Stover, Hannah Giles
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Darby opening a birthday gift
February 07, 1982 |
Debra, Robert Stover, Kaare Karstad and Aaron Stover
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Virginia Downey Giles, Red Hildebrand, Hannah
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Hannah, Deb, John Giles, Robert, Kaare, Aaron
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Kaare, Deb, John Lawrence Tomas Giles
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KariAnna Bergitte Karstad
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Red, Hannah, Ginny and John Giles, Robert Stover
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Aaron, Bebe and Katrine, Bobby and Geri, KariAnna, Barbara Hildebrand |
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Bri's first birthday
May 12, 1982 |
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Deb, Bri, Barbara, Dar, Geri
John Giles Jr, Bobby Stover |
Deb, Virginia Downey Giles, Barbara, Dar, Geri
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Ginny Giles, Bri
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Geri Stover
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Darby and dad Van washing dishes
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A Hildebrand weekend on the Jersey shore
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Bri's got dad's coffee cup on the kitchen floor
August, 1982 |
Monmouth Junction, NJ
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Halloween at school
October 31, 1982 |
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Squeteague Harbor behind
Darby and cousin Erich Martin Giebel |
Cataumet, MA
November 25, 1982
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Jeanette and J D Martin Sloan
A quick hello and goodby |
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Van is set up in his mother's studio
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He brings his 'portable' Apple ][e with him
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Squeteague Harbor. Cataumet, MA
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Thanksgiving preparations in his folk's kitchen
November 25, 1982 |
Thomas Ledyard Blakeman
carving the turkey
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Virginia Davidson Blakeman
having her evening Dubonnet
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Tom Blakeman and
Hannah Hall Blakeman Giles |
Erich, [don't recall his friend's name], Deb, Tom
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Hannah, Ginny Blakeman, Dar, Erich and friend
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Virginia Leal Blakeman Randall, Dar, Erich
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November 25, 1982
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Bri trying to sneak up the Cataumet stairs
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Bri back home in Monmouth Junction
November 30, 1982 |
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Bri sneaking up the stairs again
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Hiding in dad's office |
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Christmas play at the Monmouth Junction school
December, 1982 |
Christmas tree
December 25, 1983 |
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Darby Blakeman wrapped in a crochet blanket
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1983
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Brianny Davidson Blakeman
watching her sister's baseball game
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Darby Blakeman running into home plate
May, 1983
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Darby and Deb Blakeman in motion
Monmouth Junction, NJ |
Need_Names
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Darby Dale Blakeman
Brianny Blakeman |
Bri's second birthday
May 12, 1983
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Bri, Barbara Hildebrand, Dar,
Debra J Hildebrand Blakeman |
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Dar, Stanley Hildebrand, Ginny Giles, Bri, Hannah Giles, John Lawrence Tomas Giles, Barbara
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Ed Delaney, Bri, Red Hildebrand, Ginny Giles, Hannah |
Monmouth Junction, NJ
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Ed Delaney, Red Hildebrand, Hannah,
Virginia Downey Giles |
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John Giles
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Bri
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Darby, grandmother Barbara Hildebrand and Bri
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Eileen Delaney, Bri, Dar and Ed Delaney
May 12, 1983 |
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Another Hildebrand weekend on a Jersey beach
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Barbara
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Don't know who this is
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Recycling before they started paying us for it
July, 1983
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At the Cataumet tennis courts
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Beatrice Bruce Blakeman Karstad
Elizabeth Leal Giebel |
Virginia Leal Blakeman Randall
with (maybe) Chris Thurlby |
Leal Randall
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Scott and Wendy Burns, Bebe Karstad
Katrine Margaret Karstad, Lizzy Giebel |
Cataumet beach
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Honey bees moving into their new gabled roof
(but not into the room)
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Though sometimes overwhelming, they are harmless
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A local bee keeper loaned Van a one way trap.
They went away |
Monmouth Junction, NJ
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Darby boards the school bus
September 12, 1983 |
Bri welcomes her home
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Closed his store after seven years. Selling off
the dregs. (Back into computer programming)
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School halloween parade. Darby with Need_Names
October 30, 1983 |
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Monmouth Junction, NJ
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Bri and Catty the kitten
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Dar in costume at Thanksgiving
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Squeteague Harbor whitecaps
December, 1983
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Lawrence Island
Cataumet, MA
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Van's mom asked him to design and build
an enclosure for this tub
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Van worked up a sketch, but his sisters nixed it
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Bri decorating the Christmas tree
Monmouth Junction, NJ |
Need_Name and Bri
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December 25, 1983
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Deb, Barbara Hildebrand, Darby and Bri |
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Stanley, Bri, Barbara
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Red and Darby
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Christmas at Bebe's
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Tom Blakeman, Katrine, Darby, KariAnna, Bri,
Bebe, Virginia Blakeman |
Princeton, NJ
December 25, 1983
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Beatrice Bruce Blakeman Karstad,
Virginia Davidson Blakeman |
1984
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Darby's birthday
February 07, 1984
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Barbara Hildebrand, John Giles Jr, Darby, Virginia Giles
Monmouth Junction, NJ |
Bri, KariAnna and Katrine and Bebe Karstad
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Ginny Giles, Darby, John Giles and
John Lawrence Tomas Giles, Red Hildebrand |
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Ginny, Debra and Darby, John Giles Jr, Red |
Ginny, Deb and Dar, Red
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Ginny, Deb, John Giles, Darby, John Giles Jr, Red |
KariAnna, John, Barbara, Darby and Debra, Ginny
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Red, John Giles, Debra, John Giles Jr, Bebe, Darby
February 07, 1984 |
Red, KariAnna, Bri, Katrine and Bebe
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Balloons on the mailbox
May 12, 1984 |
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Bri's 3rd birthday party
May 12, 1984
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Brianny Davidson Blakeman
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Tulips and a figurine
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Darby, John Giles Jr and Hannah Giles, Bri and Barbara
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Darby and Bri, Barbara and Deb
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Virginia and Hannah Giles, Darby and Bri and Barbara
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John Giles, Bebe, Katrine and KariAnna Karstad,
Ginny and John Jr and Hannah Giles, Darby
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Stanley Hildebrand
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Bebe, Katrine and KariAnna, Ginny,
Darby and Bri, Barbara, Deb and Red
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Ginny and Hannah Giles, Bri and Barbara Hildebrand
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KariAnna, Ginny, Darby and Bri, Barbara
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KariAnna, Ginny, Darby, Bri, Barbara
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KariAnna and Debra
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Katrine and Bri eating the birthday cake
May 12, 1984 |
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June, 1984
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Catty the doll
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Bri not asleep on the couch
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Bobby Stover, Darby and Aaron Stover at the Stover house
Pennington, NJ July, 1984
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On the beach in Cataumet, MA
August, 1984
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A freighter and boats passing by Mashnee Island
August 23, 1984
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Van's first view of the canal from the bottom
of his street on Mashnee
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The canal-side beach and Hog Island
on the causeway
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The canal-side beach on Mashnee Island
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From Hog Island, the canal beach on the
causeway to Mashnee
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The Cape Cod Canal as seen from
Hog Island on the Mashnee dyke
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Their new home at 47 Wianno Rd
as seen from the tennis courts
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In back of their new home at
47 Wianno Rd, Mashnee Island, MA
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The front yard
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Not their stuff
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Bri back home in Monmouth Junction, NJ
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Their last Halloween in Monmouth Junction
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Have begun moving some stuff to Mashnee
November, 1984 |
Moved in around 12/01/84. This is Christmas.
Mashnee Island, MA
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Bri and Darby at their Christmas tree
December 25, 1984
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Brianny enjoying Christmas
in her sunny new home
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Erich Martin Giebel, Virginia Blakeman, Debra
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Erich, Need_Name (Hannah's date), Virginia,
Deb, Hannah, Dar, Ed in Cataumet, MA
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Virginia Leal Blakeman Randall, Hannah,
Tom Blakeman and Elizabeth Giebel
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Virginia, Deb and Bri, Ed and Leal Randall
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Ginny Blakeman, Deb, Hannah Giles,
Dar, Ed, Liz, Leal, Tom
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Tom Blakeman, Liz Giebel,
Hannah and her mother Virginia
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Elizabeth Leal Giebel, Hannah Giles,
Virginia and Erich
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Darby
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Erich
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Van made this outdoor butcher block table of
mahogany garden stakes for his mother
April, 1985 |
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Brianny Davidson Blakeman
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Building a shower stall in back of their new home
at 47 Wianno Rd, Mashnee Island, MA |
Plumbing a clothes washer into the hallway
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Catty
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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
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Bri and granfather Thomas Ledyard Blakeman
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June, 1985
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Pepper the kitten and Catty the cat
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August, 1985
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Darby and need other names
Cataumet Camp end of summer skit
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Pippin the puppy
March 17, 1987
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Christmas
December 25, 1985 |
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Pippin the puppy, Van, Darby and Bri
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Barbara and Red Hildebrand at Christmas
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Bri, Leal, Darby, Virginia
Cataumet, MA
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Christmas dinner
Mashnee Island, MA |
Bri and Debra, Barbara, Dar
Monopoly at the Hildebrands |
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Well, I think it's a Christmas tree
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1986
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Hildebrand plants in their natural solarium
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Mashnee Island, MA
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January, 1986
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Darby Blakeman and Brianny Davidson Blakeman
and mom Debra J Hildebrand Blakeman
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Darby's birthday
February 07, 1986
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Darby and Brianny Blakeman
with Abby the dog
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Catty
March, 1986
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Bri, Dar and paternal grandmother
Virginia Davidson Blakeman
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Brianny's birthday
May 12, 1986
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Bri and cousin Elizabeth Leal Giebel
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Aunt Virginia Leal Blakeman Randall and Liz Giebel
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Friends Dave Toppin's son and self with the girl's
maternal grandfather Stanley Hildebrand
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Need_Names with Bri
Bourne school, MA
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December, 1986
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Brianny Blakeman and classmates
dancing on a Christmas stage
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Their home at 47 Wianno Road
December 25, 1986
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A Hildebrand wreath over the mantle
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Mashnee Island, MA
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Stanley Hildebrand, Debra Hildebrand Blakeman
Barbara Hildebrand, Darby and Bri |
Bri, Deb, Red Hildebrand, Barbara, Darby
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Dad Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman and Bri |
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Pippin the dog, Van and Bri
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Barbara and Red with Darby
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Christmas cards and stockings over
the wood stoved fireplace
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Snowed in on Wianno Road
Photos by Barbara Hildebrand
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January, 1987
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1987
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Darby, Pippin and Van shoveling
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Red
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Van and Pippin
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Deb wiping her folk's car
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Red and Barbara playing cards
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St Augustine, FL
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February, 1987
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Authentic Old Drug Store Museum
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St. Augustine's horse carriages
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Where was this building?
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The Ponce de Leon hotel
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Darbydale Ave
Woodbridge, VA
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Eileen Delaney in front of Ed and Eileen's
new Virginia home. Need location
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Darby Dale Blakeman's birthday
February 07, 1987 |
Leal Randall, Brianny and Darby, Red
Mashnee Island, MA |
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Barbara, Name unknown, Deb, unknown, Bri
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April, 1987
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Pippin the dog
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Need_Name and Bri
Easter bunny girls
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Barbara and Abby the dog
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Barbara's photo film wheel packages
that are probably on these pages
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Bri and Need_Names
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Bri's birthday. May 12, 1987
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Bri, Barbara Hildebrand,
Virginia Blakeman and Pippin
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Pippin, Deb, Dar, Bri and Ed Wells
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Need Names and location
June, 1987
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Photos by Barbara Hildebrand
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Andy Monteleone at the Stover house
Pennington, NJ
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Abby the dog, I think
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Need locations:
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An ocean beach and eelgrass
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A long ocean road
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Hildebrand's gardens
Mashnee Island, MA
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July, 1987
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Blue Hydrangeas
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Darby cracked her arm on a
Cataumet Club tennis court iron post
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Bri in costume
July 04, 1987
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Mashnee Island, MA
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Darby and Brianny and Need_Name
July 4 parade
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Darby at the YMCA Camp Rotary
July, 1987
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Boxford, MA
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Hillside staircase built by Van
for Shirley Delisle
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Van and Darby and Brianny
Falmouth, MA
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August, 1987
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On a dock at the bottom of the staircase
with retractable steps
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With landings
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Red Hildebrand
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Neighbor Mrs Cruise, Deb, Dar, Bri
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Brianny boarding the school bus
September 14, 1987
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Mashnee Island, MA
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Bri and Need_Names. Prior to the Halloween
parade at the Bourne Middle School
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October 31, 1987
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Inspired Halloween costumes
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Catty, dead
November, 1987
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Names unknown, Darby and Bri
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Location and date unknown
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Guessing Thanksgiving
November 26, 1987
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Angelic Bri on skates. Bourne, MA
December, 1987
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A Bourne Skating Club Christmas show on ice
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Bourne Skating Club, MA
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Christmas
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Hildebrand plants
January, 1988
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Mashnee Island, MA
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1988
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Names unknown with Darby
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Closet cabinets and shelving built
for Arnett Peccini
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Mattapoisett, MA
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March - May, 1988
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Installing drainage at the Murphy home
on Mashnee Island, MA |
Then attaching the frame for a deck to the house
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May, 1988
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Catty lives across the street.
Van has moved to his own place nearby.
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Rebuilt the front entryway of the Murphy home
June, 1988
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Bri's birthday
May 12, 1988
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Brianny, Deb and Darby biking around
Bar Harbor, ME
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Acadia National Park
near Bar Harbor, ME
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June, 1988
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Otter Cove Stone Bridge, Loop Road
Acadia National Park
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Bri in Cataumet Club sweatshirt
Mashnee Island, MA
July, 1988 |
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Bri with a professionally painted face
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August, 1988
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The girls and dad collected this trash from the shores of
Mashnee Island, MA
September, 1988 |
Installed a shelving unit
for the Pappas family
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September, 1988
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Preparing to install a shower stall
for the Pappas family
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Mashnee Island, MA
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Van did much carpentry for his folks through the '80s
November, 1988
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Rebuilt their corner porch
Cataumet, MA
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Outdoor shower stall behind the garage
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Installed a storm door unit
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Reassembled a trellis around his
mother's delicate wisteria vines
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A corner shelf for an antique 3-part mirror
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A retractable TV shelf within a cabinet
previously built by carpenter Reg Swift |
A sofa end shelf
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Need location
Looks like December, 1988
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Cat in the bird feeder
Need location
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Girlfriend Patty Dancer in my rental on
Leeward Rd, Mashnee Island, MA
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Katrine and Bri making music and dancing
Cataumet, MA
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Katrine and Darby making music
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Bri's Christmas school show costume
Mashnee Island, MA
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Bourne, MA
December, 1988
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Someone forgot to hit inside shut-off
valve on Van's folks' outdoor faucet
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Cataumet, MA
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Christmas
December 25, 1988
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Mashnee Island, MA
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Cataumet, MA
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Bri, Dar and paternal grandfather Tom Blakeman
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Dar, Bri, Virginia and Tom
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December 25, 1988
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1989
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Pippin the dog and Brianny Davidson Blakeman
Mashnee Island, MA
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June, 1989
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Reinforcing the Lucas shower wall
with insulating spray foam
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Uncovered a Lucas drain pipe
July, 1989
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The drainage system under the Lucas rear deck
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Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman's summer cottage,
same property as winter house rental
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Brianny Blakeman visiting dad
August, 1989
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Biggs the puppy
with his sisters and brothers
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Debbe Sharpe with her sister
Karen Madden and daughter
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Jim Madden
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Need_Name
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Need_Names. D' Sharpe's extended family
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Van's neice Elizabeth Leal Giebel
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Name, place and time unknown
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Biggs playing with neighbor's brown lab
Mashnee Island, MA
August, 1989 |
Biggs outside their summer home
September, 1989
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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
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Brianny and Darby Blakeman
Halloween
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Bri and Pippin the dog
November, 1989
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Dar and Catty
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Bri's room
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Nina Stokes
June, 1990
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Need_Names
Party near Falmouth, MA
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1990
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Stanley Hildebrand
Mashnee Island, MA
November, 1990 |
Darby's dad is residing
Bernie Rotberg's house
May, 1991 |
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1991
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June, 1991
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Bernie Rotberg's house on the left
being shingled by Van Blakeman |
Attaching the Pecks new deck to their house
July, 1991 |
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Piping a shower stall for the deck
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Framing the deck and shower stall
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With benches
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The hinges and latch of the shower
stall were a hand made experiment |
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Van added a small deck to his winter
home rental for the owners |
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His winter home on Mashnee Road
August, 1991
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Writing software for The Emotion Mining Company
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Inside his one room summer cottage
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Shallow rooted Locust trees about to
topple during Hurricane Bob
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August 19, 1991
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Mashnee road on the causeway is under water
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The clubhouse parking lot is flooded
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Need_Names
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The clubhouse lawn is under water
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Some Mashnee properties and the causeway
are under water
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A significant chunk of the Mashnee
causeway was washed away
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Buzzards Bay surf laps the Pappas trees
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The Mashnee end of the Cape Cod canal
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Darby Blakeman should not be here.
Buzzards Bay surf is still rolling in
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A Mashnee road and mailboxes
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The very high Buzzards Bay surf almost
reached this Mashnee anchor
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Hog Island and the Mashnee causeway
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Replaced the rotted foundation and floor of this
shed with pressure treated lumber
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September, 1991
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Rebuilt the rotted sill under
the Lucas side door
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June, 1992
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1997
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Mo the dog in Van's office
East Sandwich, MA
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May, 1997
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Van's girlfriend Eileen Kerr managing
Gladstone Furniture
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East Falmouth, MA
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Mo, Bri and Dar
East Sandwich, MA
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Pretty girls, Eileen, Brianny and Darby
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... and Missy the cat
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Darby in the basement
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Mo, Bri and Dar by the pool
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Cottage tenant Al Rosa and landlady Eileen
June, 1997
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Rebuilding a rotted floor and sagging wall in a
200+/- year old additon to the even older house
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Grant Parsons and Need_Names,
Ann Parsons and sister Eileen
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Thornbury, Canada
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Mo in back of their East Sandwich home
October, 1997 |
Laying a new walkway with old dug-up brick
found under the back yard |
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1998
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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
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