I've performed in and attended many different types of shows at the opera house. It is part of our town's history and was built in the 1880s. It has become part of me, Jim and Matthew. I've made good friends, met acquaintances, connected with lots of folks from town, and first time visitors from the surrounding area. However, this opportunity gave me a chance to spend hours with board members and trustees that I see or greet in only in passing.
Do you ever feel like the world is spinning so fast that you feel like you can't breathe? Other times, I feel like I'm missing one of the acts in a three ring circus. Like, which one do I watch: the lion cage, the motorcycles, or the highwire act? Somedays, I quiet myself as I sit and wait for each and every miracle that comes with the new day. Life is full of adventure!
Friday, February 20, 2009
The 5th Annual Cotillion - "A Victorian Valentine"
I've performed in and attended many different types of shows at the opera house. It is part of our town's history and was built in the 1880s. It has become part of me, Jim and Matthew. I've made good friends, met acquaintances, connected with lots of folks from town, and first time visitors from the surrounding area. However, this opportunity gave me a chance to spend hours with board members and trustees that I see or greet in only in passing.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Finding the Bigelow-Lynds Family Line
Peter (1854) and Mary Ann were born in Sterling, Mass. Both Peter and Joseph E (son) were in the lumber business and moved from Massachusetts to Cloquet, MN. In late 1880s JE was married to Cordelia Shaw. They had a son born in 1888 named Edward Shaw Lynds (picture). The town was incorporated as a village in 1884 and became a city, with a mayor and city council, in 1904. The area was the site of the 1918 Cloquet Fire, which destroyed much of the town and killed approximately 500 people. Luckily, they lived and then relocated to Los Angeles, California by 1920. JE was 65 in 1920. I found a Wikipedia article about J.E. Lynds and the Cloquet, Minn library. Could it be the same Lynds family? Yes. Ancestry.com confirmed through several historical records (census, NY passenger departures, birth, passports) that I found the family line.
Robert Ashley Bigelow m. Susan Addicott 1964
Robert Sickman Bigelow m. Muriel Ashley 1933
James Herbert Bigelow m. Bertha Sickman 1906
James M. Bigelow m. Mary Ann LYNDS 1880.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Memories of Winter in Maine
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
New Year After In-Debt Party
Winter Snow!
At 43, I was really sore for almost 3 days. I didn't know I had muscles inside my elbows. My legs are fine, except for my shins from the tight boots. After I fell the second time, I almost couldn't get my knee working after it was frozen from the fall. Matt has no bumps, bruises or discomfort. He is excited to try again next year! I didn't realize how much I miss skiing - the air, the smell of the snow, the exhilaration of the sport, but mostly the beauty of the mountains! All of my young childhood winter memories of Maine: skiing with Grammy Bigelow, in the ski mobile with Grampy Bigelow, and sledding with my sister came flooding back in one run down the bunny slope!.......and now Matt's first time on skis. I will always treasure the memories!