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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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Storks 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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