Negatives 1943 To 1998
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1943
Virginia Davidson Blakeman and
Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman
Kingston, NJ



Shortly after August 21, 1943
1944
Virginia Leal Blakeman, Van
and Beatrice Bruce Blakeman
with Thomas Ledyard Blakeman
and Virginia D Blakeman.
And in Bebe's hand to the right ...
"The Children Who Went To New Jersey"
Author might have been VDB



Princeton, NJ
June, 1944
June, 1945
In Stony Brook
July, 1946
Thomas and Van
1946





65 Westcott Rd
September, 1946
On a Cape Cod sand dune
July, 1947
1947



Tucker, Virginia, Bebe, Leal, Hannah
Van, Tom and Penny the dog
Birmingham, MI, December 25, 1948
Van and Hannah Hall Blakeman
Bloomfield Hills, MI
December, 1952
Virginia, Hannah and Van
dying Easter eggs
April 05, 1953
1953
With Don Dohoney, camp counselor and
MI football pro. Camp Charlevoix, MI
August 12, 1953
Van burnt his face off weeks prior holding a match
over a shellac can to clean the goop out.
Bloomfield Hills, MI, April 18, 1954
Could be about when they bought
the Cape house.
Cataumet, MA, August, 1954
5905 Wing Lake Rd, Bloomfield Hills, MI
April, 1955
1955
Van with Art and Pete Rowe
camping probably in Northern MI
Tom Blakeman taking picture. September, 1955



Cissy Sloan
J D Martin Sloan
Bloomfield Hills, MI
1956



Their new home for a year on
West Mountain Rd, West Simsbury, CN
May, 1957
Tucker the Springer Spaniel


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Van and his pet parakeets
Cataumet, MA
June, 1957
Janey Douglass on
the Megansett pier
Freddie Douglass and Hobbit II
Cataumet, MA
Janey and Freddie



J D Martin Sloan
Van's foot
Don't know why
Christmas with their paternal grandmother
Charlotte Phillips Van Cleve Church
Princeton, NJ, December 25, 1957
Uncle Frederic Birdsey Blakeman and his new
wife, Virginia "Jill" Sherwood Blakeman
cutting the wedding cake. June, 1958
1958



Princeton, NJ



Cleo the Christmas puppy
December 25, 1958
1959
Van's aquarium
March, 1959



Cleo and Hobbit II














Hobbit and Tom Blakeman
March, 1959



Van's bedroom
at 95 Wilson Rd, Princeton, NJ
March, 1959











Hannah Hall Blakeman
March 29, 1959












Bebe Blakeman
June, 1959












Leal Blakeman



Virginia Davidson Blakeman
Marty Sloan, Mt Rushmore, SD
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Virginia Blakeman
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Yellowstone National Park, WY
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The Sweetgrass Ranch
Melville, MT
July, 1959
Phillis and Tom Blakeman
Mother and son





Virginia and Tom watching a rodeo clown
Marty Sloan














Van
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The Sweetgrass ranch house
Melville, MT








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Janey Douglass on the Megansett pier
in North Falmouth, MA
August, 1959
Beach party on Lawrence Island
Cataumet, MA
Freddie Douglass on the bow of our boat
Squeteague harbor












Cataumet Beetle Cat sailboats



On the ferry boat to Marthas Vineyard
Edgartown Harbor
Gay Head
Marty and Van on the ferry boat



Biking MV and staying at a
Marthas Vineyard hostel



Old Silver Beach
in Falmouth, MA



Van took her to her prom
probably near Birmingham, MI
Cannot recall her name
September, 1959
Marty digging a drainage trench



The Sloan's new home
Back at the Wilson Rd house
Princeton, NJ
June, 1960
Leal
Tom Blakeman and Prince
1960



Hannah Blakeman
Elli Donald (Hawks) and Ann Donald
Bill Donald III and Bill Donald II
August, 1960
Elli Donald (Hawks) and Ann Donald
Bill Donald III and Bill Donald II
August, 1960



Ranch hand, Sarge Hoem
Ranch hand, Van
A roll-over on the way home from the
ranch put his left leg in a full cast
and a dent in his head
Van made this target for Hannah
Princeton, NJ
December 25, 1960
1961

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September, 1961
near Princeton
Diana Berrie
My 1939 Packard






Jody Kerssenbrock
December, 1961
Hubert W Giebel and Leal Blakeman
engaged
95 Wilson Rd
Princeton, NJ



Carole Farley with George Wood
and Ruthie Seyfarth
December 09, 1961






David Johnson

















Bleak winter view from the house
Princeton, NJ
December 09, 1961
Diana Berrie
Nick Long and friend
1962
'Beaver' Johnson and brothers, NYC
Thomas Ledyard Blakeman
Beatrice Bruce Blakeman
Jody Kerssenbrock
Need his name
After walking out of the principal's office, never
to return, Van is on his way to a friend of a
friend's farm in Nebraska. March, 1962



Between Lyons and Bancroft, NE
April, 1962

















Van on his way to a shower
Larry Kjeldgaard



Dehorning the cattle ...
... before they poke each
other's eyes out











Nona Kjeldgaard
Need daughter's name
Need son's name
Their babysitter



Need her name

















December 25, 1962
One year later
December 25, 1963


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What do you think?
1964



Boot camp graduation parade
USMC, Parris Island, SC

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June 11, 1964








US Marine Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman
showing his folks the obstacle course
US Marine Van
USMC, San Diego, CA   November, 1964
Marching to Communication-Electronics
Radio Relay classroom



Entering their school



This may be George Morris,
some have said "Van's twin"
Not sure who this is



George Babbage and Tom Collins
Their quonset huts - home



Quonset hut supply depot



Van


Need his name
Radio Relay class-10-night-65


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Opens a normal screen size photo
Opens an enormous photo
Use your scroll bars to find an individual



After a "Junk on the Bunk"
inspection



November 10, 1964



Marsha Lynn Fink







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The Marine Corps birthday
November 10, 1964



December, 1964



Marsha Lynn Fink Blakeman and
Van, just married
William and May Fink
with daughter and son-in law
Winter Haven, CA
December 12, 1964





With her sister and brother-in-law






San Diego, CA



Flying east. December 20, 1964
With Virginia Leal Blakeman Giebel
Princeton, NJ.
December 24, 1964
2338 Moore St, San Diego, CA
Their first home


1965
February, 1965
































Graduated and transferred
Moving to El Toro



Unpacking in their new home
Keeping some things packed
in case he ships to Vietnam
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566 Canyon Acres Dr
Laguna Beach, CA





Marsha Blakeman modeling
Los Angeles, CA
July, 1965














Marine air show, El Toro, CA
1966














Radio relay field exercises
Camp Pendleton, CA











Flying east. June, 1966
Visiting folks in
Princeton, NJ
Marsha
US Marine Van
June, 1966


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Flying out of New York
The engine died. He tried to rebuild it. Failed.
And then it got stoned to death
More field exercises
Camp Pendleton





227 1/2 Agate Ave, Balboa Island,
Newport Beach, CA after separation
from Marsha and then from the Marines
Flying east about December 20, 1966
Visiting the folks at Christmas
95 Wilson Rd, Princeton, NJ



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1967

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My parting shot
>> I do need names <<
Good friend Joan helps me
celebrate my discharge



New home
227 1/2 Agate Ave, Balboa Island






Gille Flemier



Good friends, Esther Wellington
David Walden Young









The Mark Davidson Trio
Corona Del Mar
Hobbit the puppy



I got Hobbit from my
previous landlady in Laguna



Elaine Blakely




Housemate Pierce Shannon
Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman
and Gille Flemier
My Opel Rekord and Shannon's Renault
227 1/2 Agate Ave, Balboa Island
May, 1966






The Huntington Beach Pier


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The Manhattan Beach Pier






Carmen Del Valle
Pierce





Flying east, July, 1967
Princeton, NJ
Sally Morey, Hannah Blakeman, Bob Carrick
and Hobbit





Antique copper cauldron














Stony Brook
July 1967
My mother's 1930's watercolor of
Melville, Montana's Porcupine Butte


Bebe Blakeman
Trenton, NJ



Princeton University
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Princeton High School






Sally Morey


Hannah Blakeman and friend, with Hobbit
August, 1967


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The Bourne Bridge














Squeteague Harbor





















Cleo
Thomas Ledyard Blakeman










Leal and Elizabeth Giebel
Liz and Erich Giebel
Virginia Davidson Blakeman






Antique ship's navigation sextant









Antique chain lamp











The Grasslands in Cataumet



August 15, 1967



Erich






Imitating Grandfarfar












Grandfarfar, Tom Blakeman









The annual Cataumet Camp skit
That may be Liz Giebel on the left


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Debbie Laurie on the right












Tappan Zee Bridge. New York.
August, 1967




The NJ Turnpike. New York - Newark stretch
Ginny and Tom Blakeman
Newark Airport
Flying west
The afterburn



My 1958 Plymouth Royal coupe
My home is in back
Home-made doors to keep Hobbit in
September, 1967

















Neighbor Robin
Experimental photograpy



My candle sculpture








Under the Balboa pier
Balboa Peninsula
Newport Beach



Tihuana Hills



Vietnam protest group outside the
El Toro Marine Corps rifle range
An aspiring writer and his dog






Sending off a manuscript
Orange Coast College







October, 1967
New housemate





Smoke from Paseo Grande fire






October 29, 1967












Tustin






October 30, 1967
Mildred Hodgeman cleaning the place
in exchange for fixing her appliances
Moving



November, 1967


Possibly near USMC El Toro
Irvine

















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Virginia Blakeman overlooking
Laguna Beach
  


My favorite daily (come hell or high water)
swimming beach


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Mission San Juan Capistrano

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Loving girlfriend for awhile
Consuelo Wingard
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Cannery Row


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At my new home
My 'Youve got mail' device works
240 E. 15th St
Costa Mesa
Flying over Newport Harbor in CA
December 09, 1967

















Visiting UCSC Santa Cruz

















Flying out of LAX
December 20, 1967
The Delaware river



The Battle Monument
Princeton, NJ
Diana Berrie and I
Erich!
My uncle John Letchworth Church
My dad's half-brother



Leal Giebel
My oldest sister
Tom Blakeman and friends.
Jody Kerssenbrock
Christmas stocking
December 25, 1967







Opening Xmas stockings
Hannah!








Gifts I received


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Flying west
December 29, 1967





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1968
Van getting a haircut
Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach
March, 1968		     (i)





Approaching the hill to Joshua Tree
on Highway 62



Van got a loan and bought this place
on March 19, 1968








Hobbit providing some perspective




























































































This $50 Branstrator trailer will
become my home away from home
Hobbit and Tibboh






































Passing through Indio

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Back home in Costa Mesa
rebuilding the trailer




























June, 1968
Van
My big doors find another purpose



My respected guide and mentor
Flying east around July 31, 1968
Thomas Ledyard Blakeman was told to smile
Cataumet, MA
Jody Kerssenbrock



John Church and Tom Blakeman
August, 1968
My bedroom in the garage - full house
My folk's driveway
A driftwood garden



A roof
Cars in the front lawn
A wind chime sculpture
A tree






Tom and daughter Virginia Leal Blakeman Giebel
Dancing a boogie woogie
at a weekend bottle party
Ginny and Tom Blakeman



These people could swing!



Their motorboat in Squeteague Harbor
Cataumet
Van about to go spearfishing
in Megansett Harbor






Flying west
Rebuilding his Branstrator trailer
in back of his home in Costa Mesa





September, 1968



His Willys Jeep

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Good friends Bill Tinkey and Les Ingledue,
two members of his writing group at OCC
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My cool jazz chair.
Yes, he was trying to make this pic weird
His bedroom. Note the jerry-rigged mike
and speaker for talking on the phone

An Elephant Ear tree
in his back yard
Experiments in photography






Float found on the beach was twice this long.
Been adding candles ever since.
Don't know why - peaceful, maybe
Made this lamp sculpture from scrap.
The mural is by a previous tenant
David Walden Young at
Hussong's, Ensenada, MX
The pretty girls ALWAYS zeroed in
on Dave, the attorney









The mens urinal at Hussong's
A loaner from Dave's court clerk






Horse riders on the beach
An Ensenada sunset





The Mexican Navy in Ensenada harbor
A Mexican soldier








Billboard for Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin
San Diego
Newport Beach sunset
October, 1968
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Foggy moon in a tree



A boulevard at night
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Experiment in photography



A Willys Jeep towbar and headlight at night
An architectural cross on a chimney
Probably Laguna Beach
Photography assignment
November, 1968














Experiments in photography
for his class at OCC































He ripped old fence boards to
make this sculpture



A dry pond on Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach





Laguna Canyon Road from above
His Willys Jeep in a
precarious postion
Willys Jeep tire on his house trailer roof vent
Hired to photograph Ernie's rock band
Orange County


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My 1st photo job.
Can't remember Ernie's last name
With Barbara
December, 1968



Portrait assignment





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Dr Charles J Galbo and names forgotten
Group party in my home.









Sheila Goldes, Barbara and Hobbit. Need Names.





Flying east
Trains from NY to Princeton, NJ































Antique TriX camera shots


































Beatrice Bruce Blakeman and dad Tom Blakeman
December 25, 1968
Bebe and Hannah Hall Blakeman





Erich and Leal Giebel











Hannah Blakeman






Elizabeth and Leal Giebel






Uncle Robert Bruce Davidson
reading Playboy







Beatrice Bruce Blakeman, Virginia Davidson Blakeman,
Hannah Hall Blakeman
Bebe, Virginia and Hannah Blakeman
opening Christmas gifts













A 95 Wilson Road Christmas
Princeton, NJ






Antique copper cauldron
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The Nassau Christian Church
Princeton, NJ
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Holder Hall
Princeton University



Flying west. December 31, 1968
A neighbor's dog 'Bear' had jumped the fence
in September and impregnated Hobbit

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1969


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Hobbit and Bear's litter
At our home in
Costa Mesa, CA
February, 1969








A girl named Carol modeling for my photo assignment
Orange Coast College
Linda
Nancy



OCC


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Newport Beach, CA
















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OCC
March, 1969





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Patty



My new home
April, 1969



Got a full time job in Laguna and attended
programming classes at night in Santa Ana
389 Loma Terrace
Laguna Beach, CA










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I built this gate from an old discarded OCC
fence to keep an obnoxious landlady out
View from my house
A random drive one weekend brought
me through Mammoth Lakes


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Someone else's negative


Someone else's negatives a photo lab returned to me




Know anybody? Leave a note in the Comments above.








1970




















My 10 acres and trailer
in Joshua Tree, CA
Then bought 2.5 acres in Mojave
January, 1970




















Mohave neighbors



























I-5 construction near Palmdale, CA
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Lake Palmdale
near Mohave



Bought this hand carved eagle in Baja, Mexico



Inside the Branstrator trailer
February, 1969








































Just moved the trailer to my land






Found this tank at a renovating laundrymat



Bought this '49 Willys Jeep to tow the trailer


























Bought this Chevy Nova so i could return
east to find a programming job.






























































Saying goodby to housemate
Doug Perske, fellow Marine



Mesa Automotive agreed to store the Jeep
since they had rebuilt the engine a few times
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The Colorado River
I met a girl, Debra J Hildebrand, on my new job
She agreed on a weekend's trip to the Cape
July, 1970






This woman was also visiting my folks.








Tom Blakeman and Winston Kellogg
sailing Win's boat
Megansett Harbor



Martha Douglas and friends quahogging
Squeteague Harbor











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Winston, Deb, Ginny and the owner in this steamboat
Woods Hole






Elizabeth Leal Giebel
Liz Giebel





Erich Martin Giebel
Above Squeteague Harbor



Erich in a tree























Lizzy Giebel sitting at the natural spring
On the Cataumet dock



Erich boating
Hobbit meets a lobster
Liz inside her grandmother's
driftwood sculpture
Deb Hildebrand and her folks are
visiting friends in Enfield, ME



















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The Desert of Maine in Freeport





The Lincoln Theater in Maine






Andrew and Josephine Monteleone






My stuff in my folk's carport waiting for a place to go
I find a place in the local paper, buy it,
clean it and move in.
For $100 down, Adele Dexter agrees
to carry the $25K mortgage



On the corner of Route 1 and Richard Rd
1 Richard Road
Monmouth Junction, NJ

August 11, 1970




















Even my folks helped clean the place and
my dad dug a trench for the new water line

























My new home includes a cottage








A trap door in the kitchen goes
to a full sized basement
This is exciting






















Brother-in-law Kaare Karstad flys me overhead









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At one time, this was a rock crushing plant.
My girlfriend Deb and I fly west to visit California
March 31, 1971





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1971
Flowering Prickly Pear cactus
High Desert area, CA
April, 1971

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Creosote bush and Ocotillo plant





Desert Dandelion
Mormon Tea
Ocotillo plant and Creosote bush
Ocotillo



Storks Bill Filaree
Teddy Bear Cholla
Joshua Tree National Park
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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






My Branstrator trailer
under a sun roof


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Mount San Jacinto





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Overlooking Palm Springs


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Debra J Hildebrand











Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman











Cable car










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Coffmans Crag


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Overlooking Palm Springs



High Desert area

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The San Juan creek
along the Ortega highway










South Laguna shoreline

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Racing fleet of sail boats

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Cliff hugging staircase and cave
below La Senda Drive


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Carved ocean pools
Three Arch Bay		     (i)
Concrete ocean pool and cabana
Kris and Lee Bower, Van, David Young



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The Surf & Sand Hotel where my
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Visiting Marsha and May Fink
April 22, 1971



Flying east April 23, 1971
August, 1971
The yard was installed before our wedding
Adding a cottage deck





Van and Deb visit the old farmstead of
his late maternal grandparents



Near the canal bridge in Bourne
September 12, 1971		     (i)
The Bourne Bridge
Kaare Karstad




Squeteague Harbor
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The Blakeman home is in the center
Kaare Karstad with Deb and others
Megansett Harbor


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Spohr Gardens
Falmouth


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Nobska Point Lighthouse
Woods Hole		     (i)
Ferry boat to Nantucket


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Nantucket

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It's our honeymoon, okay?
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Back home in Monmouth Junction
November, 1971



Cracked Chevy Nova windshield






Installing a driveway









Added a stained glass skylight
Adding an external closet
to the bedroom cottage



December 25, 1971























'Cat'











A stained glass bathroom skylight








1972

















Building a chair-wall
July, 1972		     (i)
Megansett Harbor
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Squeteague Harbor and Lawrence Island
Sketching a plan for our NJ home



My folk's home

Thomas Ledyard Blakeman

Deb Blakeman, Alice Bebout,
Tom Blakeman and John Giles
Painting our home



New soil for the corner lot


This stone wall surrounds the septic tank
The house has been painted and
the cottage has new cedar siding








Blue the kitten and Catty



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Working on my penny collection
August, 1972







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A bronze handle and mail slot on a door
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Somewhere in the northeast
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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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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



Delaware River from Bowmans Tower



Gravestone of Deb's brother







Inside our bedroom cottage







The closet pole hangs from and
rolls along a ceiling channel



Chestnut beveled glass french doors
open to the rear deck and yard









December, 1972








Our Christmas
Robert, Bobby and Geri Stover
with Barbara Hildebrand
Aaron Stover
Pennington, NJ






Bobby Stover and Stanley Hildebrand






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1973
A Golden Arborvitae, mailbox and lamp on a
hollow wood post, and a tiered timber wall
July, 1973














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Hollyhocks



Blue the white cat



I am rebuilding his box trailer
I found it in a vacant lot near my home
on Balboa Island around 1967



I bought this trailer for $35 worth of labor from a
respected and liked friend Harvey D Pease
Harvey was also the realtor that collected his rent
Squeteague Harbor
Cataumet, MA





Lawrence Island






Thomas Ledyard Blakeman and
Virginia Davidson Blakeman



Hobbit the dog
I am driving the motorboat
Debra J Blakeman
has caught a Bluefish


Talk



John Letchworth Church, Van and Tom
and Virginia Blakeman with Sy Kano

Serving at tennis on the clay court
Cataumet, MA





Deb sailing Win Kellogg's boat through
Long Island Sound
August, 1973



Winston Kellogg


































Win Kellogg sailing the Kittiwake







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Amrita Island
Coast Guard Lighthouse
Buzzards Bay
Doing the books
Monmouth Junction, NJ
August, 1973












Blue the white cat











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"Think Shaklee" on our corner lot. We
were really into selling it at the time.
Truly excellent natural products.



December, 1973














Our bedroom cottage
A Cardinal in the new snow


Talk



Left here on a bus heading west. It
was to be a short trip to see the new
investment and collect the back rent.
Under the rear deck of our home
on Santa Rosa Drive
South Laguna, CA
A bunch of these pictures were taken by Iva (Cici) Young
and mailed to us before we bought the place


1974
















































Ocean view from the rear deck
Had bought it 8/16/1973 sight unseen on
David and Cici Young's recommendation



We decided to stay
Some of these pics were actually taken
after my return (see below). Oh well.



Adjacent to Bill and
Bernice Bailey's home



My Willy's Jeep had been in storage at Mesa
Automotive, near where we got off the bus











The hills above our new home
in South Laguna

























The back neighbor's roof was close enough
to walk across and take pictures































I flew east to gather our posessions. This
began the overuse of our credit card which would
eventually lead to our having to sell the place
Our Monmouth Junction basement holds the stuff
I couldn't fit into the stationwagon and trailer











Monmouth Junction, NJ
February, 1974







































Everything is packed.
Heading west!

















Snow and a small stream in the back yard






On the road to California
Talk



A Shaklee Basic-H sign is
discovered along the way.
Deb and Hobbit sitting on a bluff
above Thousand Steps Beach
South Laguna, CA
May, 1974











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A pier and the Laguna Lido on
Thousand Steps Beach below Mission Hospital
















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Where was this concrete
pier-wall with deck?













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Red flowered Aloe cryptopoda and California
Iceplant succulents protect the bluff



What is this in the hills above South Laguna?
A pink fiberglass helicopter cabin?





A trash dump in the hills above
South Laguna or maybe El Toro
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Aliso Canyon
May, 1974







Yellow flowers on a Prickly Pear cactus


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A white Hedge Morning Glory
What is this orange-pink flower
on a vine or long stem?












Above Aliso Canyon
May, 1974









A deck of box gardens
A Bird Of Paradise
Talk
















Next door neighbor, Bernice Bailey
Bill Bailey and Hobbit
at driveway gate under construction
A neighbor's kitten
An old canvased mission door
I found in a wreaking yard



A roof alcove bench I rebuilt for Don and
Jane Estep across the street
A shelving unit I built for Carole (Need Name)
in her new Laguna Niguel? condo














Barbara and Red Hildebrand, Deb's folks,
on the beach at South Laguna
August, 1974
















The former Aliso Beach Pier
is in the background

















Disneyland







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Maybe Wild Animal Kingdom?
(Need Name of woman and location)
with Barbara Hildebrand



Need Name of boy and location





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Robinson's at Fashion Island
Newport Beach, CA
Talk


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Could be the Statue Of David that later
fell in the 1987 Whittier earthquake

Assisting my friend Les Lindsey (orange)
and crew in preparing a luau
















Hawaiian Poi made from boiled taro roots



Blue the white cat
Bougainvillea overgrowing our deck
September, 1974





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Cat in the Bougainvillea

















Our garden paradise on Santa Rosa Dr












































A South Laguna Christmas







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1975
Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman
Debra J Hildebrand Blakeman



in Joshua Tree, CA




























Stanley Hildebrand, Deb Blakeman
Barbara Hildebrand, Hobbit








Keys View
Joshua Tree National Park




















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The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway
to Mount San Jacinto, 1975
Central Valley
February, 1975




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On the Balboa ferry
crossing Newport Harbor






The Balboa Island canal






Crystal Cove beach















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The town of South Laguna, CA









San Juan Capistrano, CA
























Dana Point jetty
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Our front yard





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On Santa Rosa Drive
South Laguna, CA




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Aliso Pier
Miles Standish Staples




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Aliso and Wood Canyons



Natural hilltop rock formation





Wild flowers in the rugged hills














A Laguna hills windsurfer
loosing altitude fast
I climbed the hill in my Jeep and took
him and his sail to his car











Jim Davis used to work with us at the
Western Electric ERC in NJ






February 15, 1975


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People climbing the hills



May, 1975

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Aliso Beach Pier as seen from
an ancient hilltop water tank
Aliso Canyon and creek
A Cholla cactus


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Classic wooden water tank on the hilltop






1000 Steps Beach, undeveloped


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Hilltop destruction































California Sun Cup













































A living beach terrain





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Sea anemones

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Aliso Canyon
No jobs. Had to sell and return East.
Taking stuff to Joshua Tree for storage






Keys view
Joshua Tree National Park
May, 1975








Looks like Peters Canyon Reservoir
in Tustin, CA



Rosarito Beach dining in Baja California
June, 1975



Hobbit with Preggy's litter
South Laguna
Mysterious Preggy appeared on our
doorstep, weak, hungry and ready to burst
I eased them out and cut the cords
Preggy likes to stay in seclusion
July, 1975

A garden probably at the Baileys
Bernice and Bill Bailey with Hobbit


Miles Standish Staples



Tom hired me to take pictures
July, 1975



Deb father's nickname Red,
on somebody's license plate
Our bedroom/office window
August, 1975



Front yard and garden. The cobbled
driveway is under construction






The driveway was cobbled with Santa Ana River
rock gathered when the river was dry



Preggy watches
Neighbor and friend Dan Hosfeldt's eye for design
guided assembly of this found fencing

















Matthew the kitten and siblings on top of Deb






Our front yard was created under
the direction of neighbor Miles Staples
A neighbor painted this
picture of our front yard
The painting broke in the mail when it was sent to
Our home in Monmouth Junction, NJ





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Installing a Sears sprinkler line








Birthday gift of Elephant bathing shorts made by
Van's sister Hannah Blakeman, an artist
Ran out of gas backing the Jeep
into the U-Haul





An ocean view from our rear deck
though not on the day of departure
Heading east August, 1975
Doubled our money, but still a bummer
Me in the shadows, not happy
Monmouth Junction, NJ
Christmas 1975
1976
A light January snowfall on the Arborvitae bushes
January, 1976



A snowfall in the woods





Preggy's son Matthew, not happy
Our cottage bedroom in the snow

















My sister Hannah's cushion
1977

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Blue the white cat under the Asparagus plant
May, 1977
Bleeding Hearts volunteer in the Arborvitae garden
Arborvitaes around the corner lawn







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Tulip Tree flowers



June, 1977



Troy the dog.
I made this sign for Deb's folks
Aaron and Bobby Stover
Pennington, NJ
Bobby, Aaron and Geri Stover
June, 1977













The Hildebrand barn and cherry trees


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Clearing space for a cabana
Expanding my shop into the adjacent store.
Princeton Furnishings & Antiques
December, 1977





Float the comment box
1978
We are visiting my folks in Cataumet, MA
February, 1978
Back home, our potbelly warmed our home nicely






Found this mahogany roll-top desk at an auction.








New sprout on the Schefflera umbrella tree plant



Debra Blakeman waiting in our shop near
the Princeton hospital during the '78 blizzard
Darby Dale Blakeman, Age 0



February 07, 1978












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Darby and her paternal great grandmother
Charlotte Phillips Van Cleve Church


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Cataumet, MA
















Back home
July, 1978























Deb painted vines on our kitchen cabinets
August, 1978



My workbench in the basement
Experimenting with a high speed
film needing no flash


























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Painting by my sister Hannah H Blakeman














Fall trees and a red house on a placid lake
Reading the Trenton Times newspaper



December, 1978
Got a new Ulefos wood stove
Much, much nicer then the old potbelly













December 25, 1978








Pepper the cat
February, 1979
Aaron Stover
1979
Our screened cabana on a redwood platform
in the back yard behind the cottage
Chopping small firewood for the wood stove



Darby Blakeman, age 1
February 07, 1979



Deb and Darby are vacationing in California
April, 1979

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This is the South Laguna community park

























Visiting old neighbors Bill and Bernice Bailey














Our old home next door



















The new owners turned the rear deck into a dining room














Bill and Bernice taking Deb to check out the trailer
Joshua Tree, CA
April 15, 1979
















Bernice Bailey



with Miles Staples and Willa Bailey Gupta














Bill and Bernice's back yard
April 17, 1979



The first 'On Consignment' in our lives. This one in
Laguna Beach. I opened one in Princeton, NJ
Back home in Monmouth Junction, NJ
Maternal grandparents Stanley and Barbara Hildebrand
May, 1979












I made this sign for Paul Hill's Fine Foods


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I made this sign for Crisp N' Clear Printing
Princeton, NJ
I made this sign for my shop, On Consignment
later renamed Princeton Furnishings & Antiques
Connecting to the town's new sewage line






























South Brunswick bringing in a new sewer line






















Preparing to lay a second driveway
in back of the cottage
Ernie Sturgeon did the heavy lifting in exchange for ...
letting him park his machine until all sewers were in








Our Arborvitae corner now includes a stockade
fence discarded by my shop's landlord
Red and Barabra's back yard in Pennington, NJ
Bobby Stover with Dar




Darby and dad in Squeteague Harbor
Cataumet, MA







With paternal grandmother
Virginia Davidson Blakeman
Dar and cousin Erich Martin Giebel





Paternal grandfather Thomas Ledyard Blakeman
sailing the boat






Ed Delaney and Eileen Delaney

Best friend neighbors trick-or-treating
Monmouth Junction, NJ



Me



in my shop: Princeton Furnishings And Antiques
aka: On Consignment
Posing for an article
about the store
Family Thanksgiving



November 22, 1979





























December 25, 1979














Deb's family

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1980
Debra J Hildebrand Blakeman and
Darby Dale Blakeman
A temporary bedroom for Van and Deb
Darby's 2nd birthday
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Princeton Furnishings & Antiques
My home-made sliding felt jewelry rack
March, 1980
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Me taking what will eventually
become know as a 'selfie' (or testing the film)
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The Holder Memorial Tower



Darby Easter hunting


April 06, 1980











June, 1980
I subleased my adjacent store to Leo Arons
next to Princeton Furnishings & Antiques








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July, 1980



























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Halloween window display
Princeton Furnishings & Antiques
October, 1980






November, 1980






Christmas
Pennington, NJ
Christmas at Bebe's house






Darby's 3rd birthday
February 07, 1981




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1981
May, 1981
Pennington, NJ
Dar eating lunch, as we wait
Brianny Davidson Blakeman is born
May 12, 1981



Princeton Hospital
Deb and Bri Blakeman










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Darby in her bunk bed






Debra J Hildebrand Blakeman and Bri





Brianny Blakeman and Barbara Hildebrand



May 14, 1981


May 20, 1981














June, 1981



















Bri Blakeman at grandparents home
















Aaron Stover












August, 1981


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At paternal grandparents home
Cataumet, MA



All vehicles into the rear driveway, out of the way



Glorstan Builders adding bedrooms
September 17, 1981






















Glorstan Builders doing interior work
Van doing interior work



October, 1981























November, 1981
















































































At a school play








Christmas eve
December 24, 1981
















Geri Stover and Bri
Christmas at Bebe's
December 25, 1981





















































1982

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A Tulip tree wood pile in the snow
January, 1982
Darby's birthday





February 07, 1982






















Bri's first birthday
May 12, 1982






































































A Hildebrand weekend on the Jersey shore



August, 1982










Halloween at school
October 31, 1982








Squeteague Harbor behind
Darby and cousin Erich Martin Giebel
Cataumet, MA
November 25, 1982
Jeanette and J D Martin Sloan
A quick hello and goodby



I am set up in my mother's studio
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I bring my 'portable' Apple ][e with me
Before I extended the wall above the backboard in 1989.
This photo was originally put in a 1989 collection by mistake.
I have since determined that logically it belongs here.












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November 25, 1982
Thanksgiving preparations in my folk's kitchen







































November 25, 1982








November 30, 1982






















December, 1982
Christmas play at the Monmouth Junction school



























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1983
Brianny Davidson Blakeman
Darby Blakeman running into home plate


May, 1983





Bri's second birthday
May 12, 1983








Monmouth Junction, NJ





























A Hildebrand weekend on a Jersey beach



















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Recycling
July, 1983



At the Cataumet tennis courts













Cataumet beach
Honey bees moving into our new gabled roof





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A local bee keeper loaned me a one way trap.












September 12, 1983





Closed my store after seven years
School halloween parade
October 30, 1983



































December, 1983
Lawrence Island
My mom asked me to design and build
an enclosure for this tub


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I worked up a sketch, but my sisters nixed it





December 25, 1983





















Christmas at Bebe's
[ click on the picture to view their names]




1984
Darby's birthday
February 07, 1984


























May 12, 1984



Bri's 3rd birthday party


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[ click on the picture to view their names]




































May 12, 1984



June, 1984
















Pennington, NJ   July, 1984
Cataumet
August, 1984
Made a deposit on a Mashnee Island home
August 23, 1984








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Our new home as seen from the tennis courts














Not our stuff







































Bri back home in Monmouth Junction



















Their last Halloween in Monmouth Junction



Have begun moving some stuff to Mashnee
November, 1984
Moved in around 12/01/84 to
Mashnee Island in Bourne, MA



December 25, 1984






























Cataumet
























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I made this outdoor butcher block table of
mahogany garden stakes for my mother
April, 1985
1985


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Building a shower stall in back of their new home
Plumbing a clothes washer into the hallway
May, 1985



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I was hired by Ed Wells
to make this bookcase












Bri's 4th birthday
May 12, 1985




































June, 1985































August, 1985



Cataumet Camp end of summer skit






March 17, 1987






December 25, 1985













































They had moved in down the road









Cataumet
















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1986
The Hildebrands moved in across the street
January, 1986














Darby's birthday
February 07, 1986








March, 1986



Brianny's birthday
May 12, 1986


















Bourne school, MA

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December, 1986




































December 25, 1986






































January, 1987


1987























































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St Augustine, FL
February, 1987


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The Ponce de Leon hotel
Darbydale Ave
Woodbridge, VA



Eileen Delaney






Darby Dale Blakeman's birthday
February 07, 1987















April, 1987































Bri's birthday. May 12, 1987




















June, 1987









Photos by Barbara Hildebrand





















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Hildebrand's gardens
Mashnee Island
July, 1987

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Darby cracked her arm on a
Cataumet Club tennis court post

















Mashnee Island July 4 parade



Darby at the YMCA Camp Rotary
July, 1987
near Boxford, MA



Hillside staircase built by me
for Shirley Delisle
Falmouth, MA
August, 1987











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September 14, 1987

























October 31, 1987








November, 1987








November 26, 1987
December, 1987
The Bourne Skating Club

























Hildebrand plants
January, 1988


1988









Closet cabinets and shelving built
for Arnett Peccini



Mattapoisett, MA

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March - May, 1988








Installing drainage at the Murphy home



May, 1988





I have moved to my own place nearby.
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Rebuilt the front entryway of the Murphy home
June, 1988
Bri's birthday
May 12, 1988



Bar Harbor, ME
Acadia National Park
June, 1988
























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Otter Cove Stone Bridge, Loop Road
Acadia National Park
July, 1988






August, 1988
The girls and dad collected this trash from the shores of
Mashnee Island
September, 1988
Installed a shelving unit
for the Pappas family

September, 1988
Preparing to install a shower stall
for the Pappas family



Mashnee Island, MA








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I rebuilt this corner porch for my folks
November, 1988



Outdoor shower stall
Installed a storm door unit
Reassembled a trellis of wisteria vines
A corner shelf for an antique 3-part mirror



A retractable TV shelf within a cabinet
A sofa end shelf


Cat in a bird feeder



Girlfriend Patty Dancer










































Bourne, MA
December, 1988
Someone forgot to hit inside shut-off valve





Cataumet
Mashnee




























Cataumet


































December 25, 1988

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1989

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Mashnee Island
June, 1989
Reinforcing the Lucas shower wall
July, 1989






My summer cottage, same property
as the winter house rental
August, 1989




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Debbe Sharpe with her sister Karen Madden
renting next door





to give their dad a family party





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D' Sharpe's extended family



My neice Elizabeth Leal Giebel



August, 1989








October 23, 1989

























Halloween



November










































Nina Stokes
June, 1990
Party near Falmouth


1990



November
Residing Bernie Rotberg's house
May, 1991


1991








Attaching the Pecks new deck to their house
July, 1991



Piping a shower stall for the deck



























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With benches
The hinges and latch of the shower
stall were a hand made experiment














Added a small deck to my winter home rental



August, 1991
Writing software for The Emotion Mining Company
















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Shallow rooted Locust trees about to
topple during Hurricane Bob
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August 19, 1991

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Mashnee road on the causeway is under water
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A significant chunk of the Mashnee
causeway was washed away
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My eldest at 13, Darby Blakeman, out of
her mother's home, should not be here.
The hurricane surf is still rushing in
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Hog Island and the Mashnee causeway

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Replaced the rotted foundation and floor of this shed



September, 1991








Rebuilt the rotted sill under the Lucas side door
June, 1992



1997
My office in Eileen's house
East Sandwich
May, 1997






My girlfriend Eileen Kerr managing
Gladstone Furniture
East Falmouth

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Pretty girls, Eileen, Brianny and Darby































Cottage tenant Al Rosa and landlady Eileen
June, 1997




Rebuilding a rotted floor and sagging wall in a
200+/- year old additon to the even older house































Grant Parsons, friends and family,
Ann Parsons and sister Eileen
Thornbury, Canada


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Mo in back of our East Sandwich home
October, 1997
Laying a new walkway with old dug-up brick
found under the back yard
1998
Eileen and I dancing at the Heritage
Plantation's rock 'n' roll show in Sandwich
June, 1998
Photography compliments of
Jane M Robin		     (i)
I recreated the Heritage Plantation's
membership database system

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