OLD Family Timeline – 1995 thru 2004

OLD Family Timeline

1998
Karen and Mark travel to blues festival and elsewhere

MMO & KCD to King Biscuit Blues Festival- Helena Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Memphis, TN

1999
Karen’s exhibition at Boston Public Library

Boat Building - photographic essay on the construction of a sailboat in East Boston.

Mark co-founds ValuEdge, Inc.

Mark and Sherry Gordon leave NESI, Inc.  behind. Found ValuEdge, Inc. to get into the enterprise software business. Early website…
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Noah Davis Gilstrap born – 1st grandchild

Herd of newbie grandparents (John and Jeannette Gilstrap, Steve and Dee Lond, Mark and Karen) wait it out.

Karen at Mass Museum of Contemporary Art

KCD work – For Patrons Only at Mass Museum of Contemporary Art – continuing show between the restrooms. [caption id="attachment_1873"…
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Nancy Orton dies
Nancy Orton dies

October 27, 1999 She  died nearly as she noted her wish to be on several occasions, "in bed like my…
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Karen and Mark publish

KCD & MMO publish Pretensions – art world agog Selected images:   [caption id="attachment_1879" align="aligncenter" width="750"] Book cover[/caption]

Karen travels to Vietnam

KCD goes to Vietnam tours country with JDL. Stops in Shanghai, visits Danielle Sun

2000
Travel – Karen goes to Jackson, MS

KCD goes to Jackson MS with Linda Larson

ValuEdge, Inc. formed

Mark and Sherry Gordon set up ValuEdge, Inc. to move into enterprise software

Andrea marries John Gilstrap – 8/27/2000

At the Mansion at Turner Hill in Ipswich, MA.

2001
Human Genome Map

Article - Published in Nature: 15 February 2001 ‘A physical map of the human genome’ by The International Human Genome Mapping Consortium

Karen’s work at Danforth Museum

KCD work – “New England Photographers ’01” at Danforth Museum, Framingham MA

Million $ Condo on Kinnaird St.

1st $million condo sold on Kinnaird St.

5th Computer

5th Computer – Mac iBook with wireless connection to Internet – $2,000

Mark comes down with Lyme disease

Here is Mark’s description from a 2004 web posting of what he came to refer to as his “plague”: In…
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Karen’s work at Newton Free Library

KCD work – Child’s Play with Mary Lang at Newton Free Library