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We are visiting my folks in Cataumet, MA
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February, 1978
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Back home, our potbelly warmed our home nicely
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Found this mahogany roll-top desk at an auction.
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New sprout on the Schefflera umbrella tree plant
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Debra Blakeman waiting in our shop near
the Princeton hospital during the '78 blizzard |
Darby Dale Blakeman, Age 0
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February 07, 1978
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Darby and her paternal great grandmother
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Cataumet, MA
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Back home
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July, 1978
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Deb painted vines on our kitchen cabinets
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August, 1978
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My workbench in the basement
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Experimenting with a high speed
film needing no flash
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Painting by my sister Hannah H Blakeman
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Fall trees and a red house on a placid lake
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Reading the Trenton Times newspaper
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December, 1978
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Got a new Ulefos wood stove
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Much, much nicer then the old potbelly
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December 25, 1978
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Pepper the cat
February, 1979
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Aaron Stover
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1979
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Our screened cabana on a redwood platform
in the back yard behind the cottage |
Chopping small firewood for the wood stove
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Darby Blakeman, age 1
February 07, 1979
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Deb and Darby are vacationing in California
April, 1979
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This is the South Laguna community park
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Visiting old neighbors Bill and Bernice Bailey
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Our old home next door
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The new owners turned the rear deck into a dining room
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Bill and Bernice taking Deb to check out the trailer |
Joshua Tree, CA
April 15, 1979
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Bernice Bailey
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with Miles Staples and Willa Bailey Gupta
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Bill and Bernice's back yard
April 17, 1979
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The first 'On Consignment' in our lives. This one in
Laguna Beach. I opened one in Princeton, NJ |
Back home in Monmouth Junction, NJ
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Maternal grandparents Stanley and Barbara Hildebrand
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May, 1979
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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
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South Brunswick bringing in a new sewer line
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Preparing to lay a second driveway
in back of the cottage
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Ernie Sturgeon did the heavy lifting in exchange for ...
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letting him park his machine until all sewers were in
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Our Arborvitae corner now includes a stockade
fence discarded by my shop's landlord
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Red and Barabra's back yard in Pennington, NJ
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Bobby Stover with Dar
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Darby and dad in Squeteague Harbor
Cataumet, MA |
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With paternal grandmother
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Mom
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Dar and cousin Erich Martin Giebel
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Paternal grandfather Thomas Ledyard Blakeman
sailing the boat |
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Ed Delaney and Eileen Delaney
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Best friend neighbors trick-or-treating
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Monmouth Junction, NJ
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Me
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in my shop: Princeton Furnishings And Antiques
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aka: On Consignment
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Posing for an article
about the store
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Family Thanksgiving
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November 22, 1979
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December 25, 1979
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Deb's family |
