Book 13: 1990
January 1990: We ski with the Ranheim quartet in and around Aspen, CO; Charlie Oswald, Chair of NCS, offers his commodious home in Basalt, as well as his jeep! Judy Ranheim, Linda & Kristen at Snowmass; ghost town touring with Ranheims in Colorado; Linda refused to go further, even with a Jeep. Below: Betty, Steve Lovas and Sonja Lovas.
Nana, Kristen & Heather in Naples. Janet & her trustees (!). Feb'90: LLH goes to Oman with the Delegation, while Jack, Jake and 72 year-old Nana go skiing in San Moritz!
Hang gliding in San Moritz, Jack in red helmet.
San Moritz: Jack, Nana-Madonna & Jake. Mother & sons. Ducks on the deck! May 5: Fritz and friend (a St Kate's student) go to SPA prom.
Mark Liberman double dates with Fritz. John Doyle Jr. goes to his public school's Prom.
Spring brings blossoms, birds and fox!
5/20/90: Crabapples at cabin and migratory cedar waxwings. Mandu and Sterling bed down.
Gem Lake sights: Deer roam and tree swallows settle into bluebird trail houses.
We celebrate Fritz' 19th birthday on May 24 at our post-concert reception for Paul Schoenfield. Julie Himmelstrup with Fritz, and Gloria and Fred Sewell with Paul.
Paul Schoenfield at cabin; Manny and Fritz; the annual Fritz-Bjorn birthday party at the cabin; Manny and Fritz; Mark Liberman and Fritz.
Memorial Day weekend earthworks.
On the bluebird trail: bluebird and tree swallows.
Fritz graduates from SPA: he (music) and Mark Liberman win major trophies.
Belated Easter photos from Steve and Sonja Lovas in Oregon. Jack with George, Northstar carpenter who fits double-pane windows (and a crib to hold them in the summer) for the cabin front porch. Brilliant!
Fritz graduates from SPA and is off to George Washington U in DC.
More photos of graduation...
Kristen and Manny Elson
Sherm and Barbara Winthrop with Jack; post graduation party at the cabin at which Fritz makes a brief appearance (seniors have a lockdown night of games and a bit of sleep on the school campus).
Fritz returns to the cabin about 5am, takes a screen off one of his bedroom windows, and crawls into bed with his cousin Steve Doyle (the other twin bed is piled with stuff!). Steve and Fritz were like brothers, but better, since the never fought. Judy Hoeschler and her darling daughters. Fritz and Bie Vang plant a tree.
Summer cabin scenes. Fritz with Hildur Lovas.
Jun 11: bluebirds born, 4 of 4! 6/13: Tree swallows hatched. Complete rainbow.
Sunrise, sunset. Jack with our new cat, Tortuga.
Meagan and Janice Hoeschler. Beloved birds!
July 8, 1990: 60-80 MPH winds entails cleanup. July 9 walk around neighborhood to survey destruction.
Same storm...
More scenes of tree damage.
Electricity restored 56 hours later (our cabin is at the end of the line so we are the last to get service). Baby wren--a mistake to let them next on the bluebird trail since the mother pokes holes in heads of other birds. Visiting fowl.
Birds and bird feeders and nesting boxes.
LLH with toddler Andrew Paulus.
Snapping turtle out for a swim in Gem Lake. In August, Wolfgang & Annelise Höscheler visit from Lindau, Germany with daughters Kathrin and Melanie. We visit LaX...as is Bob Hoeschler from SF.
8/26: FRH gives cello recital under guidance of Tom Austin, his teacher. On August 28 we drive Fritz to college in DC, stopping in Uniopolis, OH, where LLH ancestral Fochts once lived (and other shirttail cousins remain).
We genealogists can never visit too many cemeteries! On to Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson.
Ash Lawn: delightful plantation home of James and Dolley Madison, adjacent to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. Jack and LLH drive home through Chicago, stopping in at 1238 Sedgwick with Manny (who no longer lives in the gentrifying area).
Abby, Lizzie and Katie Hoeschler. 10/15/90: Jack and LLH celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary a year early in DC with a Steve Paulus quartet written for the Cleveland String Quartet with Bill Preucil. After a dinner at the River Inn for old (mostly Georgetown) friends, we taxi to the Corcoran Gallery for the concert. Jack shows strength on the River Inn pole, entertains George and Lorraine Morris (Army friends of LLH parents), and hugs his mother.
Anniversary party attendees: Janet Dorn & KBH. Luther, Mark Liberman and Fritz. Cory (Fritz's roommate at GWU) & E.J. Elson. Hildur Lovas. Kristen and Fritz. Steve Paulus and Jim Hoeschler.
Kristen and Jim (a beau). LLH prepares to walk to the boathouse on the Potomac to watch Jack and friends row: JGH, Bob Frederick, Fritz and Peter Blyberg. Carol Blyberg flanked by Mark Liberman and Jim.
10/13: We drive west to Maynard, MN for Warren Heen's memorial service. Carol, Linda and Les Heen have assembled significant buildings, such as an old area schoolhouse, to present a thoughtful and interesting enclave of that part of MN. Early November snow at the cabin.
Cabin dressed in light snow...
Kathrin Höscheler from Lindau spends the school year with us, attending Cretin-Derham HS. Nov '90 was a mixed weather month.
Landscaping improvements by Jim Hewitt--really well done.
Hewitt builds up the entrance to the kitchen utility porch, allowing for an herb garden. Dan Hannan builds a rosemaled TV cabinet for the front porch. Mandu (lower step) and Sterling hold forth at Edgcumbe home.
We commission a work by Aaron Kernis for Jorja Fleezanis (concertmaster of MnOrch) to premiere at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. We precede the Dec 17 chamber concert with a dinner at Barnard honoring LLH advisor and KBH professor, Dr. Peter Juviler. LLH, Susan Halper and Katie Ida, Kristen. The Juvilers. Bruce Carlson (head of Schubert Club in St Paul, JGH and Ellen Futter, Barnard President.
Toasts back and forth; presentation of the first page of music, signed by the composer, Aaron Jay Kernis; Carnegie Hall poster of Jorja Fleezanis and this concert.
Elizabeth and Bill Pedersen host a festive party at their lovely CPW flat. The couple met at the U of M (she from Rochester, he from St. Paul), then he went to MIT. In 1978 he founded Kohn, Pedersen and Fox, world-renown architectural firm.
Middle row: Bill Pedersen, LLH, Jorja Fleezanis, Aaron Kernis and Elizabeth Pedersen. Bottom right: Anne Stephens and Peter Juviler, JGH and Bruce Carlson, ED of the (St. Paul) Schubert Club.
We continue Japonaising the house with shoji screens. We close off the openings flanking the fireplace, creating a tokonoma on the West side, a display area with open shelves on the East. We then plaster over the fireplace and break the surface with four lighted niches. (The niches were inspired by Rufino Tamayo's museum in Oaxaca where he displayed pre-Columbia artworks in brightly painted niches (a different color per room).) We consider various colors for our niches, then decide on gold leaf--perfect! Lit they are like jewels.
Christmas Eve at Doyles on Stillwater St in White Bear (they have moved from Worthington). Manny is failing. LLH with Steve Doyle; Manny, Katie and JGH.
Christmas Day at our Gem Lake cabin: pretty cold, but we still sled.
Inside the cabin it's cozier! The porch is sealed with new thermopane windows and filled with decorative trimmings. Manny, Katie and Laura.
New Year's Eve musicale at 1630 Edgcumbe. Bill Hueg with Mayor George Latimer. Katie Doyle and LLH; Meagan Hoeschler in Florida.