Book 15: 1992
LLH with Carolyn Brunelle at her surprise 50th birthday party--music of course, and many tributes. Andy Paulus with our Xmas gift. Superbowl Winter Ice Palace on Harriet Island.
Jack, Jake, Jay and Fritz Hoeschler meet in Aspen to ski the 10th Mountain Hut-to-Hut Trail. Unfortunately, Fritz gets severe altitude sickness which a female guest in one of the huts diagnosis and properly tells Jack he has to bring Fritz down to a lower altitude. That works!
The three brothers continue on without Fritz.
All ends well...
April 10: Hyde Park and one of FDR's homes. We then travel up the road to the Vanderbilt home.
Park Ranger instructs us. Always enjoy being back on the Hudson River.
Apr11: Sleepy Hollow restoration, Philipsburg Manor in North Tarrytown (now Sleepy Hollow), NY. LLH's old stomping grounds.
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Our destination for this trip: Sail Alaska reunion, 4/11-12 at Kykuit, Pocantico Hills [Rockefeller estate].
Wonderful grounds and sculpture at Kykuit.
Wonderful to be able to walk these gorgeous grounds, including Nelson R's Japanese garden (where LLH brother, Steve, worked for a couple of summers).
Easter Apr19: Janice and Meagan visit.
Easter gathering at our Gem Lake cabin. Doyles and the Jay Hoeschlers.
Jack's 25th NYU Law School reunion, May 1-2. JGH, LLH and David Ranheim walk through Washington Square. JGH with Donna Zuckerman. LLH with Mary Mellon and Donna Z.
Move to cabin, May 4--so lovely in spring.
Gem Lake beckons and soothes.
Darling Jack goes out for a canoe ride. Fritz and Bjorn Ranheim.
Fritz & Bjorn birthdays (21&15 years old). Memorial Day, May 25: Doyles and Ranheims join us at the cabin.
Lovas reunion, May 31 ties in with Steve Doyle's graduation from Cretin-Derham Hall; on to Boston University. Bob and Gert Hoeschler also visit Fritz has septoplasty, June 2
Jun23: Composers Forum annual meeting at cabin. Jack leads a tour.
Next day it's back to the office: LLH with Philip Blackburn.
Jun26: 40th anniversary party for Dick and Finette Magnuson at the St. Paul Rowing Club.
We spend a delightful afternoon in Frontenac, MN with architect Benjamin Thompson (he's working with JGH on Riverfront Redevelopment) at Ben's cousin's home, Henry Blodgett. Henry and Ben talked about the "real" people behind some of the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fiction: LLH wishes she had taken notes!
Jul 11: We host a party for the upcoming wedding of Claire Buchwald and Larry. Gary plays fiddle and we dance!
Jul 19: Birthday trip to La Crosse; the night before Fred and Gloria Sewell gave LLH a surprise 48th birthday party.
Fritz and his trusty White Bear E-boat racing crew: Liz Schmidt and her brother, Patrick. Steve Doyle.
July 21, Red Lake Reservation. LLH drives there to meet with Tribal leaders to discuss how a composer might be in residence and enhance existing programs...or create new ones. A job description is drafted and Andy Vores, a Welsh composer who lives in the US, is selected. This successful pilot becomes the basis for the Composers Forum's Continental Harmony, a national Millennium celebration.
Steve and Sonja Lovas with Zach and Tyler; Zach starts on violin, Tyler soon to follow. Killer wrens on my bluebird trail. Jackie Hendrickson, Fred and Gloria Sewell's granddaughter.
July 25-26: Carol Heen and Charlie Boone spend the night at the cabin.
Aug 8: Delightful boat ride on the Mississippi with the Hoeschlers. Monique is au pair for Jay and Judy Hoeschler (we had met her family on a recent trip to Dresden). 74-year-old Nana looks quite beguiling! Curly-head William Hoeschler.
Jack and LLH go to Santa Fe Aug 12-18, and take Monique along.
Pueblo. We see/hear Steve and Patty Paulus at the Chamber Music Festival on Aug 15.
More adobe sites around Santa Fe plus the Indian market.
Canyon Road sights Aug 16.
A visit to Taos Pueblo, over 1000 years old.
More cliff dwelling images, inside and out.
Gorgeous weather for viewing dramatic sights outside Santa Fe.
Aug 27: We celebrate our 26th anniversary. (I believe a horse-drawn carriage from Dellwood to a so-so German restaurant. But still lovely--LLH always a sucker for carriage rides! On Aug 29 Fritz returns to college.
From Sep 12-20 we are guests of Rick and Nonnie Burnes; we sail from Boston and up the coast to Canada. Fabulous sailors and the bests of hosts!
Alan and Cecily Morse join us for part of our voyage. We visit Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Franklin Roosevelt's family summer home where FDR contracted polio.
We continue up the coast through the Bay of Fundy (world's highest tides) to St John's where we have dinner (and get stuck, so have to wait for rising tides to release our boat; Rick is not happy he let that happen!)
More sailing scenes...
Returning home, we stop by Mt Desert and DRJr's home designed by Venturi.
LLH at tiller...a rare event.
Port Clyde, ME.
Sep 21: Plymouth, MA. From Sep 21-23 we visit Ben Thompson's whimsical and stylish compound on in West Barnstable on Cape Cod.
We stay in one lovely cottage, a converted utility building, and walk along wildflower-bordered paths to the main farmhouse which Ben has enclosed with a 360 glass/screen porch.
Gatherings inside Ben's Barnstable home with his sons and SO's. Below: Karl Borgeson of Whitewater State, WI installs his purple fortress home (with removable roof); we commissioned it to fit that space in the fireplace.
Oct 9-11: We spend a delightful weekend at the Heen farm in Maynard, MN. Carol has rescued an amazing unplumbed Victorian-era house from the estate of 7 Norwegian bachelor brothers. The move to the Heen farm is next!
Scenes around the Heen farm--a Norwegian immigrants treasure trove.
We visit several battle sites, such as Wood Lake, where Jack's great grandfather, emigrant John Jacob Hoeschler, a member of Company K, fought the Dakota Sioux to the Missouri river.
Our front courtyard in Fall...
Jack with Sterling who loves the courtyard's water features. Meagan and Janice Hoeschler visit. Zach and Tyler Lovas at Halloween.
Andy Vores comes to Minnesota to interview for the Bemidji State-Red Lake Reservation semester-long residency (He is chosen and does a fabulous job!). Nov 3: Staff farewell party at Edgcumbe for Karen Nelson who's off to Brazil.
Nov 25-29: Family Thanksgiving at the Cloisters, Sea Island, GA. Perfect!
View from our room. Posing for our Xmas card.
Daily dancing to a band at the resort and pseudo-gymnastics on the beach! We return home to beautiful Sterling (Mandu is in kitty heaven.).
Dressing the house for Xmas.
All is calm...all is bright.
Christmas Eve dinner at Jake and Maureen's at their Amesbury home. On Dec 27 we have dinner at Ron and Mary Ericksons.
Other Hoeschler holiday shots.