Written by Dana Weitz Published on Monday, 02 November 2009 04:03 Last updated on Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:55
Matt and Dana went on a road trip to Arizona, Utah, and Colorado in October. They drove to Flagstaff with "the boy" Hosteen and visited with Matt's parents and sister. A second road trip then commenced with Paul and Cindy joining in, leaving Suzanne behind with Kate and Kip, and Hosteen at the kennel with the mountain view, where he was signed up for daily mountain walks.
We drove first to Monument Valley, Utah, where we spent the night at Gouldings. Up early the next morning, we had a cold and breezy, but interesting and informative, guided tour in the back of a jeep through Monument Valley. With us were people from Australia, Germany, South Korea, and the U.S. The guided tour takes you to places you cannot go in the self-guided tour, and here Dana had her hair braided by 86 year old Susie in a hogan. Susie and her young friend (in her 70s we were told) were carding and spinning wool by hand. Dana had the experience of visiting an outhouse a little way from the hogan. When she got there she found that there was no door, but the opening faced the mountain, away from the rest of the compound, so she had a lovely view of the mountain from the seat.
Written by Dana Weitz Published on Saturday, 17 October 2009 23:30 Last updated on Wednesday, 18 November 2009 04:58
The Parker Reunion was held at the end of July 2009 at various locations in western New York. The main event, a somewhat rainy but fun picnic, was held at Krull Park in Olcott.
The picnic started around noon, with the Parker Olympics. Each participant received a score card at the start of the games. You got three tries for each game, and at the completion of a game, the "official" for that game marked your score, and on you went to complete the other games. When done with all six games, the cards were handed in to the executive committee, who tallied them up and later in the day awarded prizes for the various categories. It was a lot of fun.
The games:
Can someone help fill in more information in this article, and the correct name for the games I listed above? Also any other pictures will be welcome. Thanks.
Written by Carol Cramer Jones Published on Wednesday, 18 June 2008 22:14 Last updated on Wednesday, 11 November 2009 23:29
LIFE GOES ON
The Life and Times of the
Carl and Dorothy Cramer Children
Marshall Bruce (Bud)
Robert Alan (Bob)
Dorothy Lucille (Dot)
Patricia Ann (Pat)
Gordon Dean (Gordy)
Carol Joan (CJ to some people)
Carl Cramer Family Reunion
June 28, 2008
Home of Howard and Dorothy Parker
(The Former Cramer Family Homestead)
4680 Chestnut Road, South Wilson, NY
Written by Robert Cramer Published on Wednesday, 18 June 2008 21:52 Last updated on Monday, 20 April 2009 17:18
Robert Alan Cramer
I was born on March 22 (my mother’s birthday), 1933 at Altoona, Pennsylvania. My early years were spent in Tyrone, PA and then at Roots Crossing, PA. It was at Roots Crossing that my father, Carl built a house, or should I say started to build a house. It was never completely finished while we lived there. Some of the walls only had sheet rock installed on one side. The upstairs did not have any sheet rock, and in the winter it was so cold that ice would freeze if you happened to take a glass of water up to the bed room.
We didn’t have inside plumbing, only an outhouse some 100 yards from the house. The kitchen sink which was installed on a wood top had a small hand pump which had to be primed with a small amount of water every time you wanted to use it. The water for the pump came from a concrete cistern in the basement of the house. Drinking water came from a larger hand pump located on top of a hand dug well outside. The cistern water was collected from rain that was piped from the roof gutters.
