OLD Family Timeline – 2015 thru 2024 – Page 2

2017

Sep 11

Noah Gilstrap starts college at U Penn

Oct 10

114 Warren St. – shoring up the front of the house

12 or more concrete piers replace crumbling brick to hold up first floor structure.

Oct 10

Travel – Netherlands – Belgium – Germany

2018

Jan 10

114 Warren St. – demolition and framing of new “sun room”.

Feb 02

Travel – Road Trip – Florida, New Orleans, Gulf Goast

Mar 02

114 Warren St. – kitchen remodel complete

The architect for the new sun room made some suggestions for rearranging the kitchen. Though we rejected her suggestions, we did in fact realize that we had an opportunity to add much needed counter space as well as storage. The Original Kitchen The original kitchen was cramped, short on counter…
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Mar 29

114 Warren St. – move in to new room.

Mark and Karen did the interior trim and painting, then the contractor came back to install the flooring. Now except for the exterior painting the room is complete. Karen selected the deep blue color for one wall. Andrea contributed a sofa bed and we rounded out the furniture with old…
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Apr 02

Tennis – Mark starts tennis lessons

Lessons with Saif Ali at Total Tennis in Saugerties. Learning top spin strokes and more.

Apr 04

All 2.2 billion Facebook users received a notice entitled “Protecting Your Information.”

May 10

Travel – Netherlands – Lisbon – visit with Torrey and Jane

Jun 02

Travel – bus trip – NYC – Atlantic City – Cape May – Philadelphia – NYC

Organized by Jeannette Gilstrap, 41 mostly old farts took a ride to Atlantic City, then on to Cape May and a stop in Philadelphia before returning to 145th St in Harlem.

Jul 12

Karen exhibits at Exposure 2018 at PRC Boston

22nd Annual Juried Group Show at the Photographic Resource Center Opening July 12, 2018 at Lesley U. gallery at the old Sears building on Mass Ave. Cambridge. Very crowded reception. Lots of old friends and acquaintances. Karen’s work is from her Strangely Attracted series. Karen’s artist statement shown next to…
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Oct 10

Travel – Netherlands – Sicily

2019

Feb 02

Super Bowl and Florida, Cousins’ Dinner…..

Drove to Cambridge for Super Bowl weekend. Then flew to Jacksonville FL. Stop at Kennedy Space Center. Much more interesting than expected. Drive south to Miami. Stay at posh hotel. Visit museums. Drive to Ft. Lauderdale for dinner with David Murphy. Then on to Delray Beach and cousin Flo. Dinner…
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Apr 28

Philadelphia – Noah and Washington DC trip….

Drove to Philadelphia. Quick walk about with Noah at University of Pennsylvania. Then on to Silver Spring MD to visit with Harvey and Betsy. Visit the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum. Vietnamese dinner in Reston VA. Museums, especially the National Building Museum next day. Dinner with Bob Greenstein and Elissa…
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Sep 24

House begins impeachment hearings into Trump

Nov 17

1st Case of COVID 19 in China – November 17, 2019

First reported case of COVID-19 virus in Wuhan, China. Not acknowledged by Chinese government for weeks.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/first-covid-19-case-happened-in-november-china-government-records-show-report accessed 5/5/20201 Notes:

2020

Jan 08

Leiden, Vienna, Leiden, Morocco, Leiden – December 2019 -January 2020

INCOMPLETE AS OF 1/21/2020 Tuesday 12/17/2019 Finished packing, turned water heater to “vacation”, left for Berkeley Heights at 11:10 am arrived BH at 1:30pm. Ed drove us to the airport. Quick traversal of TSA. Hung around. Flight left at 6pm. Full plane. Watched movie – The Girl in the Spider’s…
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Jan 15

Karen publishes Still Stepping: a family portrait

After several years of work Karen published book, Still Stepping: a family portrait.

Jan 15

RBC closing – next steps

on the Riverside Business Coach website 1/15/2020 Mark announced: Riverside Business Coach is closing its doors. After more than 15 years of working with small business owners and managers, it’s time to officially wind things down. Effective 2/1/2020 we will no longer take on new clients and projects. Existing work…
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Jan 19

January 19, 2020 – first COVID-19 case in US

“On January 19, 2020, a 35-year-old man presented to an urgent care clinic in Snohomish County, Washington, with a 4-day history of cough and subjective fever……”Holshue, Michelle L., Chas DeBolt, Scott Lindquist, Kathy H. Lofy, John Wiesman, Hollianne Bruce, Christopher Spitters, et al. “First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in…
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Jan 21

2nd Trump Impeachment Trial in Senate Begins

Jan 31

Jane Orton dies

January 31, 2020 Jane had been diagnosed with a form of lung cancer 4 years earlier. Through some near miracle drug program she was symptom free, essentially cancer free for years. She continued her busy work life. And we had met up in Lisbon, Amsterdam, and several US locations during…
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Feb 01

Super Bowl Weekend

We continued our longstanding tradition of watching the Super Bowl with Bill Zinn and Nancy Bridges. This has been accompanied by some compulsive socializing. Breakfast with Linda Larson. Visits to Peabody Essex Museum, MIT Museum….. Brunch with the Miriam Goodman breakfast crowd at S&S. Lunch with Paul and Ruth Richards.…
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Feb 06

Karen exhibits at Center for Photography Woodstock