Category: Lessons
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See the full gallery on Posterous We stayed here after visiting Campobello Island (the Roosevelts’ vacation home on the US-Canadian border—Virginia is an Eleanor Roosvelt fan). It was a rainy day and Lubec didn’t impress. At about 7:45 pm, we went into town because we had seen an ice cream place, but it was closed.…
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See the full gallery on Posterous We stopped at Portland on Day 1 of our vacation, and saw our friends Deb and Dale, who joined us for a Sea Dogs game. Next day, we were off to Millinockett. On Sunday, we hiked Mount Katadhin. It was, in a word, hard—4k vertical feet during a 10-mile…
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See the full gallery on Posterous Ah, Mr. Bagel. Caught a Portland Sea Dogs game last night, as well as our first lobster of the trip!
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See the full gallery on Posterous Amid the run of afternoon thunderstorms we had one Monday that kleft a permanent impression on us—lightning struck a tree less than 100 feet from our house, knocking loose a 15-foot piece of the tree, which went flying all about. A shard of it landed more than 100…
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We caught a baroque music concert at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Phoenixville, led by our friend Pam Baxter, who plays cello (and also serves as director of religious education at a UU church near Media, Pa.). It was fun. Give a listen to this Purcell piece.
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See the full gallery on Posterous We’ve been to the DeGeorges’ lake house before, but never with Joe, Gabrielle and Trey. And just to amp up the fun, the McKeones and Harts were along as well. We had a blast! Great food, more water sports than you could recite in 30 seconds (and the joy…
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See the full gallery on Posterous We picked up Kelly from Unirondack summer camp in Lowville, NY. As usual, he had a great time—even though this year he stayed for two weeks, rather than one. Also, his friend Trey was there for the second week, as well as Alex Kahn. We brought all three home today,…
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See the full gallery on Posterous Photos from our last day, at Field Museum of Natural History, the night before at Wrigley, and a church near our hotel.
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…. And sweaty armpits. A sweltering 3-day visit concluded for Pete and I with a last visit to the Belmont El station, the Field museum, and Soldier Field. Then it was off to Midway and a trip home via Pittsburgh.
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View from sec 213, row 5, seat 14.
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That’s it in the background.