Sunday night – family tree

We left Endicott about 7:30 this morning. On the way out of Gabe an Marcia’s house I snapped a grabbed a picture of some of the relatives that Marcia and my rother-in-law Steve have tracked down in the course of their explorations of the family tree. Meet Sara Ann Quick and her husband Lewis Snyder.. Here are their pictures from 1892. Sar Ann was born in this country of dutch parents. Lewis was (I beleive0 born here too, of German parents. Lewis was badly injured in the civil war.. bt I don’t know the details. All that I do know is that they lived near Kingston NY. It’ scool seeing these guys.. I’m hoping to get a simple geneology site up unde rthis web stie. Watch this space

On theway out of Endicott, we stopped at our favorite Deli, Roma’s and picked up soem Pizza for breakfast.. then began the long 6 hour drive home… With both Max and Gabe now driving.. we had 4 drivers to split the ride.. but Diane and I did the whole trip in two long runs.

Onecurious interlude.. We stopped at a rest area in the addarondacks and I found this sign in English and Yiddish over one of the water fountains. (Yiddish is the language of Hassidic and other very devout jews in all parts of the world. it’s sort of like German but written in Hebrew script. The yiddish for this is a long list of things you shouldn’t be doing ith this water.

as in no washing of the hands ! I wonder what was going on that required such a sign ?

We got back to VT about 2.. in time to stop by Puriton’s up the road from us and pick out another form of family tree.. this years Christmas tree ! Half the town was there, it seemed.