Barbara Carlson and I have been indulging in memories of Avanti, Gioja and Ben Webster’s home on Byrdcliffe in Woodstock, N.Y. Our email exchange has been pretty wonderful and I’ve just decided to copy it here for the readers who will also remember. Ping back on the comments section if you wish. As Barbara says […]
Rain Garden for a Wet Year – 2013 I planned this garden in February 2013, excavated in March, planted in April and May. Â Designed to slow and hold water running down my steep driveway, the garden is about 10 x 25 feet. Â We cleared the site of trees and excavated a level-bottomed trough about […]
Copy print of Benjamin Crampton Webster (1821-1893) The pictures here were given to me by my great aunt, Aileen Webster Payne. Â Her mother, Mary Say Lawrence Webster, gave them to her. Â Benjamin Crampton Webster (1821-1893) and his wife, Eliza Campbell Wilbur (1822-1912), Â had five children, two of whom (Marcus Wilbur and Eliza Campbell) are included […]
Tagged Lawrence, Mary Lawrence Webster, Webster, WilburMary Say Lawrence Webster (1872-1944) Photographer Here are examples of photographs taken by my great grandmother, Mary Say Lawrence Webster. Â Her oldest brother, Richard Hoe Lawrence was an avid amateur photographer as well and was an early member of the New York Society of Amateur Photographers, which later became the New York Camera Club. Â Another […]
Tagged Mary Lawrence WebsterI am busy working on historic family photographs this summer.  I am going to use this post as a place to put links to pages as I construct them.  Hope it works! Lawrence Family Pictures Daguerreotypes Mary Say Lawrence Webster, Photographer Eva Watson-Schütze Photographs of the Stallforth Family
I read a file of family letters yesterday. The title of the folder in looping handwriting is “Stallforth Sisters and Brothers.†The letters (about 50) run from 25 May 1945 to June 1949 with one coda written in August 1964. These are my first impressions after leafing through the letters, which are in English, German, […]
These pictures were taken by our father, George Prevo, in our NYC apartment, the playground around the corner, the barber shop, and in our grandparent’s house in Woodstock. I posted these as a birthday present to Ben on June 15, 2011.
Tagged BenSunday September 13, 2009 The other day as I was sewing binding tape to the hem of a pair of my son’s trousers, I looked down at my Singer Featherweight sewing machine and thought that of all the sewing machines I have used in my life, this was my favorite. I think of myself as […]
Last weekend we had guests so I cleaned up the back room and put all the family papers away in the closets. There is a lot of stuff – letters, postcards, photographs. This stuff tells lots of different stories. I can trace families or individuals. I can trace business transactions or birthdays. I can string […]
I found this card with my grandmother’s handwriting  in a stack of photographs from the 1980s — Woodstock, NY to Anna Maria, FL.  The green 3 x 5″ card with loopy handwriting, is typical of Gioja’s filing.  What these particular odds and ends had in common, I do not know.  The card seems an appropriate image […]