After
each title below you will see, in parentheses, the lineage
of that person. For example: (Tom/Jim) after the top item
about Billy Cannell tells you that Billy descends from
Tom (his grandfather) and Jim (his father).
7/21/2004
Cullens on the Highways and Byways of the World
(Tom/Sheila)
2004 has been a busy year of travel for Sheila and
Peter. March included a terrific trip to Greece,
"In the Footsteps of St. Paul", which included visits
to Phillipi and Corinth as well as classical history
sites such as Delfi and Crete. The previous six
months had been spent preparing for the trip, led
by the same Fr. Don who led our trip to the Holy
Land in 1995, and everything about the trip lived
up to our hopes. I chose the picture shown at the
right because it looks so Greek!--The temple of
Poseidon on Cape Sounion south of Athens.
Since Greece, we have enjoyed a visit from an Uruguyan
(actually Austrian) acquaintance in April, a trip
to LA to visit Brendan and Aidan in May, a short
stay in Sunriver with Brigid and Annemarie and families
in June, and a great visit to San Francisco in early
July to meet with old friends from our Los Angeles
days. The highlight of that trip was a sail on San
Francisco Bay on a lovely Saturday on a restored
"scow schooner", the Alma, run by the National Parks
Service. Our friends from Phoenix, the Dietsches,
came back for a week's visit after the San Francisco
trip. A fine year of coming and going--and it's
only a bit more than half over! Looking forward
to the reunion in 10 days and to seeing everyone.
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7/9/2004
Billy Cannell enters the Merchant Marine Academy
(Tom/Jim)
The Jim Cannell family ( Jim, wife Perseka, Billy,
Bobby, Maggie, and Katie) traveled from their home
in Honolulu to New York the first week in July.
They had a grand time sightseeing in NYC and then
on Friday they traveled to Long Island with son
Billy to see him inducted into the Merchant Marine
Academy.
Billy will have two weeks of boot-camp-type training
and then begin his regular school year. The Academy
makes available a website: http://www.usmma.edu/life/indoc/2008/photos.asp
which shows photos of the activities of class of
2008. Jimmy has spotted Billy in several pix...in
the band and other places.
On Saturday, while Billy was "boot-camping", the
rest of the family was joined by Jim's oldest son
Tom (who drove in from PA) and his children Brooks
and Grace for a day at Coney Island. Jim said the
weather could not have been more perfect and they
had a wonderful time. They flew back to HI on Sunday.
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5/2004
A Taplin Trip to Austria (Jane/Julian/Greg/Malachy)
In celebration of Greg Taplin turning 40 (Feb. 29th),
his family (wife Shona and son Malachy), his father
Julian and Julian's wife Carolyn traveled to Austria,
a place which has always fascinated Greg. They made
the trip in May of this year. Pictured from L: Greg,
Carolyn, Shona holding Malachy. The other picture
Julian provided is of Salzburg Castle (Hohensalzburg).
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3/2004
Taplins Travel to China (Jane)
In March Julian, along with Christine and Claude,
Geraldine and John traveled to China. (Photo
#1) There, besides traveling from Guilin to
Chengdu and seeing much fascinating countryside
between, Julian, Geraldine, and Claude all gave
talks to large audiences, in their own field of
psychology, medicine, and law respectively.
Julian has had connections with China on a personal
and professional level since he and daughter Susan
traveled there in 1994 and met young Lin PianPian
who was trying to sell them water. Since that time
Julian has made many trips to China and written
3 books for the Chinese market, with plans for a
fourth one. As he wrote:"I can't teach Chinese anything
about China or Chinese culture, but we do know a
thing or two about dealing with the fallout on families
and children of advertising, violent movies, sexual
videos, fashion addictions, distracted parents,
etc...I offer specifics in three skill areas, thinking,
learning/teaching, and preventing." This shows Julian's
enthusiastic audience (Photo
#2) and then later lined up for book signing.
(Photo
#3)
Julian has a wonderful set of pictures which proved
too large to include in this website (it would have
been too slow to enjoy properly); however, I would
love to share them, so please email as instructed
on the DIRECTORY page
if you would like to receive both Julian's own narrative
and a CD with the pictures. This picture (Photo
#4) is a story in itself...an admiring artist
rendered a portrait of Julian.
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01/19/04
Karen Cannell Cornwell (& Chris) (Robert K/Robert)
Bramble
Bank Garden Nursery - New Web Site!
Hi Family and Friends!
Just sending out a welcome link
to our new website for the nursery!
The site is still under construction in some areas,
so pardon the mess! Please feel free to send any
comments and suggestions for improvement... This
is the first time I've done this. If any
of you are brave enough and want to buy a plant
off of the online store..please do! I want
to see if the Paypal process etc works smoothly..Thanks
for being the guinea pigs!
Thanks for giving it a try and hope to hear from
you!
Love, Chris, Karen, Ethan, & Shaina
WWW.BRAMBLEBANK.COM
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