It was a productive Thanksgiving this day. I haven't yet gone thru this in-full. So Ben, let me know if this is a duplicate. God Bless you & your work.
Came across another short recording of Paul at the table ...
Merry Christmas! I haven't really gone through this one too much yet. Paul's sitting at the table & recalling family. I found some cool old family photos & will use occasionally. Peace to you all ... recorded 11.27.09 Sparta, MO
Merry Christmas ya'll. Here's a great one that's just turned up of Paul & Shirley Gass at the dining room table after a visit with the Teasdales & Sinclairs. Paul recounts his parents, their "courting", marriage, work, hard times & share cropping. Great bits here. Ending with a visit from Uncle Rick. I've found several more of these that will post soon. It's a blessing to have these I feel.
Driving Grandmom home after a birthday lunch in Sykesville (?) (94 years). Talk about her family & Grandfathers when they lived together on 32nd street and the Alameda, near City College (her alma mater) Baltimore, MD.
Long-form sit-down with Grandmother Esbrandt at the kitchen table after Friday afternoon lunch. Angie & I warmed up the conversation regarding her wedding to Fred Paul Esbrandt September 18, 1943 in Baltimore, MD. They were married 53 years, both served in the War, raised three children, & nurtured their aging Grandmothers, Mothers, & Husband in their waning years.
Two parts of Paul J. Gass spinning yarns about working at McDonalds, the Navy, smoking meat, & gardening ... all after Thanksgiving dinner with background commotion abound.
Visit by Angie & I to Swarthmore to visit & hang with Dorothy & we captured some great family history.
Dorothy talking about her soon retirement from public service as a legal advocate for the disenfranchised in township of Swarthmore, PA.
A visit with Dorothy Sinclair by David, Mason, Finley, & Annabelle at Broadmead assisted living, MD
Shirley Gass telling her wedding story with Paul Gass, Baltimore, MD
Shirley Gass stories around the fire at family camp on Lake Pomme De Terre
Doug Sinclair with his Mother Dorothy at the Thanksgiving table about Seattle youth with Father Clarence Sinclair.
Dorothy Sinclair at Sinclair family Thanksgiving in Finksburg, MD
Annabelle Sinclair singing in the car OTR