Family

Some old and new pictures here, from various family gatherings or excursions, and from my archives or the family’s.

Now, in 2018, I realize that almost all the additions have been of our family gatherings in Pine Point Maine. That’s the relatively-newly established family I mean, the Lubin-Kings, and the Cook-Hineses. There are pictures here from Pasadena in 2011, Pine Point in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2016.
I also hope to add pictures soon from 2014, and this year, 2018.

When it comes to strictly Lubin-family pictures, in weeding out about thirty years’ worth of slides, most taken with my original Bronica and very few of adequate quality, I scanned all the good ones and threw out the bad ones. Some of the good ones are linked to from this page. They show pictures from years 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, and 1972.

A couple of special singletons: a really nice picture of Al and Virginia Sloan on the day of my college graduation in 1957, and a snapshot from Christmas 1952 of lots of people named Darby, and a few others.

Beyond the above, there’s a scan I did of a very interesting family picture from about 1915.

A while back, I got loaned a bunch of prints from Marjorie Clack, daughter of my mother’s closest girlhood friend Marcia Schulte Lathrop. These range in date from the Forties to the late Eighties, and although in some cases not of very high quality, they all are of serious interest to the family. I’ve scanned them and put them up on a separate page, for all to see.

	In summer of 1968, Virginia and Al gave two parties, mostly it was friends there, but there were relatives from New Jersey, Brooklyn, and Long Island too. I’ve picked out the pictures with family in them and put them on a separate page.
	February of 2015, I was looking through proof-prints of color negatives that were in my files, and found some snapshots that would certainly be of interest to the family. Thanksgiving 1967, I guess I drove down from Providence with my camera and flash. Half a dozen pictures only, but a couple of good ones.
	In early 2014, I decided to go through some negatives that I had had since Providence, but had never examined. To my surprise, I found four showing my father Horace with hair. Since my mother always said that she had never known him with hair, these must have been taken well before the time of their meeting, which I think was 1928. They’re on a page of their own.
	At the same time, I pulled out a bunch of negatives from the 1940’s, family pictures including this one of my great-grandmother Belle Kotterman, taken in 1945. All these pictures can be seen in a special page.
	2016: This was the first year that Mark and I both got two weeks in Pine Point. It would also be the last year that the elder Kings would be able to travel to Maine, so it was a somewhat bitter- sweet time. Lots of pictures, though.
	2013: I left Saint Paul a week before Mark, to get two weeks in Pine Point, but for some inexplicable reason, I took very few pictures. The best cullings of these are on the small page for this year.
	2012: A relaxing two weeks in Pine Point. There were family galore in attendance, some for only a few days, others the whole time. Join us, at least photographically!
	2011: As a natural and necessary completion of Harris’s visit in February (see the next block below), we all agreed that Madison would visit Mark and me in Pasadena in late July, then we three would go to Maine, for a week that the three girls would spend with the Dads. Then there would be a second week during which the Moms and “Papa”— Walter Hines, M’lyn’s father—would stay in the new “Little House” with the girls while the Dads moved across the street into the “Cottage”, and then finally Devlin would return to Pasadena with the two of us for a week’s visit. There are four separate pages, but all are accessed from one central page.
	February 2011: In the Fall of 2010, I suggested to M’lyn and Diane that during the kids’ February vacation, Harris should come out to visit Mark and me in Pasadena. Both Mark and I have made up pages of our pictures of this wonderful holiday. You can see some of the pictures I took.
	First week of August, 2010, sixteen members of the extended King family, plus two of their dogs, were together in three residences, but congregating at the King family cottage in Pine Point, Maine. Lots of pictures.
	Terry Bailey took this at the August Party of 2009. With her permission, I’ve put it up here. Not bad for a cell- phone snap, and it captures the spirit of the day very nicely.
	In September of 2006, Mark and I decided to treat the Greene family to a trip to the Museum of Natural History and the Planetarium in New York. Took lots of pictures.
	The August Party of 2006 was a grand one, to fit in with my seventieth birthday. Some pictures here of the quiet conversations after the mob- scene was over.
	Michael and Mary’s Fiftieth Anniversary was in September of 2005, and I have a page with just a few pictures from the day.
	An old print I got from Virginia, four generations of women in the Aronson-Lubin family. More on the special page devoted to it.
	On what would have been Virginia’s 96th birthday, I went back to Staten Island, and took a small number of shots.
	This is a negative I found only in February 2009, but it dates from 1998 or 1999, at one of the first August Parties we had in Pasadena. My cousin Howard Ialberg was still living then, in Burbank, and we got this snapshot of Howard standing between Michael and me. No special page, just click on the picture to get a much larger version than you see here.
	A couple of pictures from the Harvard Commencement of June 1963.
	Pictures from 1964, the first year of Mary and Michael’s stay in Boston during his graduate studies at MIT, plus one other from Staten Island that year.
	A roll of black-and-white pictures I took at Christmas 1964 in Watertown. A few of them are very nice.
	In 1965, I was getting used to my new Bronica, and occasionally took it down to the Lubins’ in Watertown to take some pictures, especially at Christmas time.
	The holidays of 1966-67 were the Lubins’ last Christmas in Watertown.
	At Christmastime 1972, or another occasion for a winter party on Staten Island that year, I took a number of nice snapshots.

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