Uible/Wells Bldg.

Anyone remember the construction of the first building at the factory in New Vienna Granddaddy did? The note in Dad's handwriting on the back says "view of Wells Bldg. going up with Main Street New Vienna".

Home place from the rear

Dad's writing on the back of photo:

Probably 1957--our back yard still has no grass. We moved in Thanksgiving of 1956. The maple trees came from the old Farms (?) Lk. lot.

If you can look at this image larger--even full page---the detail is amazing, especially to the right hand side of the photo.

Ohio maps on t-shirts

I'm wearing a Glendale Public Library shirt today but I do like these map shirts.

Celebrating Easter with Chinese food

Today we had a nice Easter lunch at Good China in Peoria.

Mom and Dad were there. Roberta and Sid were there. Catherine and Gerry were there. Wendy Jean, Kenneth Charles II, and Kenneth Charles III were there. Pat, her niece Shannon and her husband Kim were there. I was there, too. Dinky had to stay in the car.

The restaurant was pretty quiet - except for our table. By the way, I heard Wendy Jean make some comment about Ken mentioning Wendy Jean's crazy aunts . . . I'm sure he was referring to Julie, Mary Virginia and Roberta.

I got a beautiful Easter Lily at lunch.

Sorta interesting site

Flashearth makes it easier to compare web map searches. One site does a pretty good job of New Vienna - another doesn't.

Wendy Jean

Has everyone heard her news?

Is it supposed to be a secret?

Old New Vienna

Here's an old post card for sale with the following information:
* THIS IS AN OLD, AUTHENTIC REAL PHOTO OHIO POSTCARD VIEW OF:
* THE I. O. O. F. HALL ON A DIRT STREET IN NEW VIENNA, OHIO
* A NEW VIENNA, OHIO POSTMARK OF 1912
* IN FINE CONDITION
* A Very Nice Real Photo Image
* A Good Close Up Photo View of:
* THE I. O. O. F. HALL ON A DIRT STREET IN NEW VIENNA, OHIO
* On the building which houses the I. O. O. F. HALL there is advertising that reads: DRY GOODS, CARPETS AND SHOES on the awning
* A HORSE AND BUGGY can be seen on the DIRT STREET
* Buyer will pay $1.00 shipping and handling for purchasing one to seven cards in one package

Youth Cue Festival Charlotte, NC 2008

The Group....

and Ginny....

KC - 15 Months Old!

Here's the famous KC in his toddler duds.

Goats are still his favorite at the petting zoo -- this time at the World Wildlife Zoo on the west side of Phoenix.

All the excitement means he still sleeps like a baby!

The Lindberghs

From Shorpy's Blog here's a picture one of Mother's famous historical couples to which we have a connection and the accompanying words: September 18, 1929. "Lindbergh & wife." Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, four months after they married. View full size. National Photo Company glass negative. Charles, the pioneering aviator, was probably the most famous person in America at the time; Anne would become an accomplished aviator in her own right, as well as one of the best-selling writers of the 20th century. Some three years after this picture was taken, the tragedy of their child's murder helped define the modern phenomenon of mass-media super-celebrity. From Anne's February 2001 obituary in the New York Times: "Nothing, not even Lindbergh's 1927 landing in Paris, had prepared them for the carnival of reporters, photographers, con artists, curiosity-seekers, vandals and crazy people who invaded their lives after their baby was kidnapped. Americans would not experience a similar flood of publicity until the O. J. Simpson murder trial of the 1990s."