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 Brianny Davidson Blakeman watching her sister's baseball game
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 Darby Blakeman running into home plate May, 1983
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 Darby and Deb Blakeman in motion Monmouth Junction, NJ |
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 Darby Dale Blakeman Brianny Blakeman |
 Bri's second birthday May 12, 1983
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 Bri, Barbara Hildebrand, Dar, Debra J Hildebrand Blakeman |

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 Dar, Stanley Hildebrand, Ginny Giles, Bri, Hannah Giles, John Lawrence Tomas Giles, Barbara
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 Ed Delaney, Bri, Red Hildebrand, Ginny Giles, Hannah |
 Monmouth Junction, NJ
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 Ed Delaney, Red Hildebrand, Hannah, Virginia Downey Giles |
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 Darby, grandmother Barbara Hildebrand and Bri
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 Eileen Delaney, Bri, Dar and Ed Delaney May 12, 1983 |

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 Another Hildebrand weekend on a Jersey beach
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 Recycling before they started paying us for it July, 1983
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 At the Cataumet tennis courts
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 Beatrice Bruce Blakeman Karstad Elizabeth Leal Giebel |
 Virginia Leal Blakeman Randall with (maybe) Chris Thurlby |
 Leal Randall
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 Scott and Wendy Burns, Bebe Karstad Katrine Margaret Karstad, Lizzy Giebel |
 Cataumet beach
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 Honey bees moving into their new gabled roof (but not into the room)
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 A local bee keeper loaned Van a one way trap. They went away |
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 Darby boards the school bus September 12, 1983 |
 Bri welcomes her home
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 Closed his store after seven years. Selling off the dregs. (Back into computer programming)
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 School halloween parade. Darby with Need_Names October 30, 1983 |

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 Bri and Catty the kitten
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 Dar in costume at Thanksgiving
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 Squeteague Harbor whitecaps December, 1983
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 Lawrence Island Cataumet, MA
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 Van's mom asked him to design and build an enclosure for this tub
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 Van worked up a sketch, but his sisters nixed it
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 Bri decorating the Christmas tree Monmouth Junction, NJ |
 Need_Name and Bri
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 December 25, 1983
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 Deb, Barbara Hildebrand, Darby and Bri |

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 Stanley, Bri, Barbara
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 Red and Darby
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 Christmas at Bebe's [ click on the picture to view their names] |
 Tom Blakeman, Katrine, Darby, KariAnna, Bri, Bebe, Virginia Blakeman |
 Princeton, NJ December 25, 1983
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 Beatrice Bruce Blakeman Karstad, Virginia Davidson Blakeman |
1984
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 Darby's birthday February 07, 1984
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 Barbara Hildebrand, John Giles Jr, Darby, Virginia Giles Monmouth Junction, NJ |
 Bri, KariAnna and Katrine and Bebe Karstad
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 Ginny Giles, Darby, John Giles and John Lawrence Tomas Giles, Red Hildebrand |
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 Ginny, Debra and Darby, John Giles Jr, Red |
 Ginny, Deb and Dar, Red
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 Ginny, Deb, John Giles, Darby, John Giles Jr, Red |
 KariAnna, John, Barbara, Darby and Debra, Ginny
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 Red, John Giles, Debra, John Giles Jr, Bebe, Darby February 07, 1984 |
 Red, KariAnna, Bri, Katrine and Bebe
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 Balloons on the mailbox May 12, 1984 |
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 Bri's 3rd birthday party May 12, 1984
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 Brianny Davidson Blakeman
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 Tulips and a figurine
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 Darby, John Giles Jr and Hannah Giles, Bri and Barbara
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 Darby and Bri, Barbara and Deb
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 Virginia and Hannah Giles, Darby and Bri and Barbara
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 John Giles, Bebe, Katrine and KariAnna Karstad, Ginny and John Jr and Hannah Giles, Darby
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 Stanley Hildebrand
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 Bebe, Katrine and KariAnna, Ginny, Darby and Bri, Barbara, Deb and Red
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 Ginny and Hannah Giles, Bri and Barbara Hildebrand
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 KariAnna, Ginny, Darby and Bri, Barbara
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 KariAnna, Ginny, Darby, Bri, Barbara
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 KariAnna and Debra
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 Katrine and Bri eating the birthday cake May 12, 1984 |

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 June, 1984
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 Catty the doll
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 Bri not asleep on the couch
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 Van and Catty This was a comfortable couch |
 Bobby Stover, Darby and Aaron Stover at the Stover house Pennington, NJ July, 1984
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 On the beach in Cataumet, MA August, 1984
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 A freighter and boats passing by Mashnee Island August 23, 1984
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 Van's first view of the canal from the bottom of his street on Mashnee
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 The canal-side beach and Hog Island on the causeway
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 The canal-side beach on Mashnee Island
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 From Hog Island, the canal beach on the causeway to Mashnee
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 The Cape Cod Canal as seen from Hog Island on the Mashnee dyke
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 Their new home at 47 Wianno Rd as seen from the tennis courts
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 In back of their new home at 47 Wianno Rd, Mashnee Island, MA
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 The front yard
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 Not their stuff
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 Bri back home in Monmouth Junction, NJ
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 Their last Halloween in Monmouth Junction
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 Have begun moving some stuff to Mashnee November, 1984 |
 Moved in around 12/01/84. This is Christmas. Mashnee Island, MA
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 Bri and Darby at their Christmas tree December 25, 1984
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 Brianny enjoying Christmas in her sunny new home
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 Erich Martin Giebel, Virginia Blakeman, Debra and Leal's friend Ed Wells
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 Erich, Need_Name (Hannah's date), Virginia, Deb, Hannah, Dar, Ed in Cataumet, MA
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 Virginia Leal Blakeman Randall, Hannah, Tom Blakeman and Elizabeth Giebel
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 Virginia, Deb and Bri, Ed and Leal Randall
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 Ginny Blakeman, Deb, Hannah Giles, Dar, Ed, Liz, Leal, Tom
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 Tom Blakeman, Liz Giebel, Hannah and her mother Virginia
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 Elizabeth Leal Giebel, Hannah Giles, Virginia and Erich
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 Van made this outdoor butcher block table of mahogany garden stakes for his mother April, 1985 |
1985
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 Brianny Davidson Blakeman
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 Building a shower stall in back of their new home at 47 Wianno Rd, Mashnee Island, MA |
 Plumbing a clothes washer into the hallway
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 May, 1985
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 Virginia Leal Blakeman Randall Darby Dale Blakeman, Ed Wells, Bri Blakeman |
 Leal Randall, Ed Wells Virginia Davidson Blakeman and Bri |
 Bri's 4th birthday May 12, 1985
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 Bri and granfather Thomas Ledyard Blakeman
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 June, 1985
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 Pepper the kitten and Catty the cat
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 August, 1985
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 Darby and need other names Cataumet Camp end of summer skit
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 Pippin the puppy March 17, 1987
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 Christmas December 25, 1985 |

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 Pippin the puppy, Van, Darby and Bri
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 Barbara and Red Hildebrand at Christmas
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 Bri, Leal, Darby, Virginia Cataumet, MA
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 Christmas dinner Mashnee Island, MA |
 Bri and Debra, Barbara, Dar Monopoly at the Hildebrands |

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