Book 14: 1991
We continue the house updating and Japonaising, including breaking out the wall between the kids' two bedroom. That entails removing the plywood/sprayed concrete facade in Kristen's bedroom, built by Brad Butler, whose family build our house: it mimics Ralph Rapson's Guthrie facade (Rapson designed 1630 Edgcumbe as well the original Guthrie.). On Feb 18 we host our annual opera performance and dinner where Bemidji State vocal students perform to great delight. Fulton and Nancy Gallaghers (he inspired and developed the opera program at BSU) relax afterwards with us.
March 12-19: Jack and LLH visit Steve Lovas in Largo, FL then hustle to Naples and Janet Hoeschler's (where we collapse on the beds!). Zach and Tyler Lovas.
March 30, Easter: After church we go to the Doyles in White Bear for dinner. Steve and Katie Doyle; LLH and Kathrin Hoeschler. Katie, Lizzie and Abby Hoeschler. Abby and Will Hoeschler. Mandu and Sterling.
On April 14 we host a musicale and dinner in honor of Manny Elson's 90th birthday. His warm, erudite relatives join us from around the country.
Readings, tributes and music by Philip Brunelle.
On April 15 we celebrate Manny's actual birthday, though he is understandably exhausted! With his nephew Arthur Cohen's encouragement, we convince a waning Manny to move to St Paul. Kristen invited brother Fritz to accompany her to her prom at Barnard.
KBH graduates from Barnard on May 4. Nana Hoeschler and Katie Doyle join us. Kristen, class president, gives a lovely speech.
KBH, Peter Juviler & Zita Lichtenberg. KBH, Meg Archdeacon & Jen McQuade. After the Barnard ceremony we cross Broadway to Columbia University from which the various colleges' students graduate. (CU is the degree-granting institution.)
Lower register: family photos. Nana is very excited to be there.
May 18: We visit the Isamu Noguchi Museum & Socrates Park in Queens (which receives funding from the Jerome Foundation on which LLH sits).
Our courtyard garden progresses...
We sail for a week up the Alaska coast with David R. Jr. He has purchased 4 Beneteaus and invites friends on this "floating timeshare" that spans the summer. May 31: Juneau, Mendenhall Glacier. Sitka is our Port of Embarkation. Rick Wright, one of the boats' hired captains, explains the course.
Sitka was the capital of Russian Alaska from 1799 to 1867 when the US purchased Alaska, "Seward's Folly." St. Michael's Russian Orthodox church... chapel in Archbishop's home. Sheldon Jackson College. Remarkable Totem Park. Fritz and Steve Doyle.
June 1: Our boats in berth. We head our of the inland waterway to the open ocean and the Midwesterners get seasick! At Beehive Cove, June 2 (our extra passenger is a local whom DR asked us to take). June 3: Serges Narrow, Poison Cove, Peril Strait, Rodman Bay.
We go exploring in the woods. River otters race ashore. The boys first catch: a rockfish!
Uncle Jim, our fabulous captain teaches the kids a lot about sailing. Hymn singing over Chatham Strait; the "man overboard" exercise.
Overnight in Angoon, June 3. It stayed so light until late, that we were constantly surprised that what felt like dinnertime was 10PM.
Angoon sunset. On June 4 we're off to Tenakee Springs. Sighting the springs.
Downtown Tenakee springs.
June 5: we sail from Tenakee to Saltery Cove.
More misty sailing days.
June 6: we enjoy a whale watch in an icy strait then sail on to Couverden Island.
Fritz captains our boat as we race around Pt. Retreat.
Auke Bay, Juneau, the end of a great trip!
June 8: we attend a Tlingit-naming ceremony in Juneau, Sat. 6/8/91. June 10-12: we visit Richard and Louise Varco in Sunshine Bay, B.C. Varcos house Fritz and Steve in their guest cottage below the main house--a fabulous time.
Dr. Richard Varco, a fabulous surgeon retired from the U of MN (and client of Jack), shows us around their dramatic home property.
On June 12 we bid the Varcos a fond farewell, and drive down the coast to Lund, B.C.
We enjoy Chemainus full of street art.
Boys admire the art. We tour the Forestry Museum.
Totem in Duncan. Stunning Victoria Gardens.
More views of the lush Victoria Gardens.
Around lovely Victoria, BC
Hoh National Rain Forest, a National Park in Washington state.
Olympic Peninsula snail in this very dramatic park.
Mt. St. Helen's which exploded in 1980. We provide the only color here.
Steve Lovas takes the boys to the Portland Grand Prix--great fun. (We return home and friends give us a surprise 25th wedding anniversary party at the cabin on June 21.)
More of the State Fair (was LLH trying to look like an aged Little Annie Rooney?!). Lunch with Manny at his St Paul apartment. Jay and William Hoeschler.
Late August: Fritz and Kristen drive together to DC where she works for Congressman Martin Sabo and he attends GWU. Aug25: We go to the Minnesota State Fair with the Doyles.
Labor Day weekend visit by composer Paul Schoenfield. Thelma and Sam Hunter come to the cabin for a visit, as does Young Nam Kim.
A few cabin shots taken before our trip to Eastern Europe, 9/12-30/91. A few shots of Jay and Judy Hoeschler and their family.
William Hoeschler; Lizzie and Katie Hoeschler. October alpenglow at the cabin.
Edgcumbe is getting Japonaised and put together.
Shoji screens at Edgcumbe soften the light.
We visit historic Williamsburg, VA for Thanksgiving with Fritz and Kristen. They each bring a friend (Kristen and Lisa McDonald from SPA).
Lend me your ears. Bottom: Governor's Palace at Williamsburg.
One can never do enough sightseeing.
Family portrait in front of Governor's Palace for our Xmas card. Kristen plays flute.
We drive on to Jamestown. Steve Lovas family; Meagan Roesner.
We spend a lovely Christmas Eve at Doyle home in White Bear Lake, missing Manny who died mid-December.
Jay's girls. Jackie Hendrickson. This winter the deer were all over. On New Year's Day we scatter Manny's ashes on the shores of Gem Lake; John Doyle officiates.