The Havens Family
Our Little Cabin in the Big Internet Woods
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Finnian -- a Lullaby
Finnian Stephen Dodge, born to Chad and Brittany last July, has already been through a lot, and this is just at six months! He had a bumpy ride at first, but that just nestled him deeper into our arms and hearts. Finnian is also the grandson of Terri and Danny, and the great grandson of Russell Havens.
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Late January
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The Nicholsons
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A reunion of the descendants of Bill & Ruth (Anderson) Nicholson brought the family together to celebrate each other, and especially Bill Jr.'s recovery after a nasty fall from a ladder that resulted in a long convalesence.
Downeast Maine
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Downeast Maine is home to many beautiful seaside villages, such as Bar Harbor on Mount Desert Island, which is reached over a short bridge and is also the home of Acadia National Park.
Cadillac Mountain is within Acadia National Park and the highest promontory on the Atlantic coast north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It must have been spotted by the Norse explorers around 1000 AD. It was noted by Verrazano, the Italian explorer sailing in service to France, in 1500, and it was he who applied the term "Acadia" to the region. Champlain discovered the island in 1604, naming it Mount Desert because of it's bald peaks.
For additional information about Acadia National Park, click here.
Remembering Clara
One hundred years ago, December 28, 1908, was Mom's birth date. She passed on just a few years ago. We all loved her, and miss her.
Check out a few of Mom's Recipes!
And here's a video you won't want to miss --
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The Last Rose of Summer
Follow the Last Rose of Summer from bud to fallen petals.
It's said that toward the end of his life, the Buddha gathered his close disciples in a circle around him as he often did. He picked a lotus flower from a pond close by and simply held it up before them without saying a word.
One of the disciples simply smiled and laughed.
The Buddha entrusted his teaching to that disciple.
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White Mountains Autumn
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Everywhere you look -- beauty!
Cherry Pond
A Celestial Palace Full of Deities.
You ask why I live in the mountain forest,
And I smile and am silent,
And even my soul remains quiet;
It lives in the other world
Which no one owns.
The peach trees blossom.
The water flows.
-- Li Po
Allen Anderson -- 1925 - 2011
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Allen Anderson passed away on March 14, 2011.
Allen Anderson and music went together like peanut butter and jelly. For many years, Allen worked for Wurlitzer. One of his jobs was tuning the reeds and adjusting the volume of each note, so that they were all the same, relative to each other.
He left Wurlitzer eventually and went to work at Forest Lawn Cemetery, a major cemetery located between Delaware and Delevan Avenues in Buffalo, NY, around 1966, starting off as bookkeeper, then assistant treasurer, then treasurer, finally vice-president/treasurer. He retired around 1983.
While working at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Allen and a fellow-worker, Theron Miller, wrote The Lawn --
The Lawn
When your heart is still, and breath is gone,
The place for you is Forest Lawn.
When your time is up, and you're ready to go,
Dial eight eight five one six oh oh.
They'll keep you nice and dry on a shelf,
When you've made an ash of yourself.
Or you can keep old Dad in a mausoleum,
Where you can come any time to see him.
But if you want to be in the ground,
They still have plenty of that around.
-- Allen Anderson and Theron Miller
Allen built his own pipe organ, installing it in his home, pipes in the basement, chimes in the living room, and the organ console in the family room. He also collected hundreds of old piano rolls, and of course also had the old player piano to play them.
Allen also was self-employed in the pipe organ service and tuning business. He worked on a number of area church organs, such as Deerhurst Presbyterian Church, Tonawanda United Methodist Church, and of course, his own church, Salem United Church of Christ.
There are photos of Allen in and his family in the
Axel Anderson (Allen's father) album.
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