September 2017
 
 
Jared turns 24...(Jessica) Josh, Cora, Savannah, Capri, Catalina, Capri
Mark, Autumn Cristie, Josh, Jake, Sadie, Mary, David, Wendy, Steve
Cristie, Cora Wendy, Jared
Friday Night Dinner...Celebration Jared's Birthdya
Jessica, Jared
Julianna, Savannah, Wendy, Capri
 
 
Josie, Savannah, Catalina, Cora Wendy, Den, Mary, Charli
   
Josh, Capri, Josie, Catalina, Savannah, Capri Steve, Preston, Wendy, Mark, Charli, Becky, Mike
Josh, Autumn, Catalina, Savannah, Mark, Cristie, Cora
Jean, Charli, Mike, Becky
Josie, Capri

Cousins 1st time meeting each other...

ONE last hug until they meet again!

Josie (11years old), Savannah (11 years old)
 
Jean, Frank
Josh Savannah
Michael Miles
Capri Julianna
Jean, Frank, Dave, Josh
Jeannie, Keith Nick, Nancy
Steve, Preston, Julianna Michael, Jack, Randy, Wyatt, Nancy, Debbi, Garrett
Mona, Josh, Kaz, Kate Frankie, Dominic
Preston, Nancy, Cindy, Wendy, Wyatt, Randy, Jack, Michael Mona, Josh
Jeannie, Den Debbi, Frank, Nancy, Mary, Jean
Nick, Mary, Preston Catalina, Josh
Frank watching FOX hurricane Irma with Florida with Catalina Yachts in the path way of the storm
Sherry, Debbi, Jeannie, Catalina, Josh, Jean, Steve, Jenn Jenn, Steve, Jean, Josh, Nancy, Frankie, Keith, Jake, Nick, Debbi
Jean Frankie, Jeannie
Cameron, Gina, Ryan, Cindy  
  Den, Jean
Michael  
  Megan, Capri
Michael, Ernie Ashlyn, Kylie, Cassidy
Jake, Michael, Savannah  
Mona, Kaz, Jenn, Wendy, Julianna, David, Kate, Teddy Gina, Catalina, Megan, Colton, Daminic, Preston, Jameson, Garrett
Catalina Savannah, Wyatt
Wyatt, Cindy, Ryan Mark, Autumn, Becky
Becky, Autumn, Mark Autumn
Cindy, Ryan, Wyatt, Gina, Debbi Jeannie, Sherry
Autumn Frankie
Reed, Nancy Steve, Julianna, David, Kate, Teddy, Mona
Frankie Debbi, Jean, Karen, Frank, Dave, Mary, Nancy
Kylie, Josh, Megan, Capri, Catalina, Cassidy, Ashlyn
Josh, Capri, Catalina, Megan, Kylie, Cassidy, Ashlyn, Savannah Miles, Cora
Dave, Nick, Kaz, Teddy, Kate, Cora, Mary
Kaz, Dave, Katie, Teddy Nick
Michael, Miles  
Capri, Megan, Catalina, Jake, Dominic, Samuel, Jameson Nick, Jake
Sherry, Cameron, Mark, Michael Wendy, Julianna, Steve
Wendy, Julianna, Miles, Steve
 
Sadie's trip back to Massachusetts to meet her birth-family
Quera, Steven, Sadie, Krystal
Quera, Sadie Steven, Sadie
   
   
   
 
 
 
We visited MAUI & MOLOKAI
David
Kitchen Living Room
Balcony David's Bedroom
Den & Mary's Bedroom / Bathroom
Kalaupapa - Shaped somewhat like a fish, has its head facing east, it's tail in the west and a dorsal fin rising from its back on Molokai's north shore. That dorsal fin is the nearly flat, ten-square-mile.
Makanalua Peninsula which juts into the Pacific below the worlds highest sea cliffs. A place of stunning beauty, its been blessed by natures grandeur, and cursed by humanity's ignorance and fear.
David, Mary, Den
David, Den
Den, David, Cheyenne
Molokai mule ride. An amazing day - almost sure to be remembered for a lifetime!
Den, David

On May 10, 1873, the first volunteer, Father Damien, arrived at the isolated settlement at Kalaupapa, where 816 lepers then lived. Damien worked with them to build a church and establish the Parish of Saint Philomena.

During this time, Father Damien cared for the lepers and improve the state of living. He aided the colony by teaching, painting houses, organizing farms, organizing the construction of chapels, roads, hospitals, and churches. He also personally dressed residents, dug graves, built coffins, ate food by hand with lepers, shared pipes with them, and lived with the lepers as equals. Father Damien also served as a priest during this time and spread the Catholic Faith to the lepers.

Damien spend sixteen years in the "living graveyard that was Molokai," where he died at the age of 49 in service to people suffering from the terrible disease of leprosy.

Saint Father Damien
Father Damien amid the community at the Kalawao leper colony on Molokai Island 
Village of Kalaupapa, Molokai
St. Philomena Church additions

Richard Marks (1929-2008)

A survivor of Hansen's disease, or leprosy, looks out over the view of the ocean at Kalaupapa, Hawaii, with towering 1,600-foot cliffs in the background.

Between the tears and memories of hundreds of funerals, Paul Harada found some comfort in the feeling that his dead friends and neighbors are now free. "In fact, I think these are the lucky ones - they're not going to suffer any more," he said.

Stricken with leprosy as a teenager, Harada was torn from his family and banished to this isolated peninsula on the island of Molokai to die.

2005, Harada, 76, was one of the last 40 elderly patients of Kalaupapa, where thousands from the Hawaiian islands were quarantined from society over the last century.

Harada has had the option of leaving this place of exile for decades. Yet, he chooses to stay.

"I'm all crippled. What am I going to do outside?" said Harada, raising his nearly fingerless hands to his aged, tanned face. "How am I going to live?"

Richard Marks, who educated tourists on the Hawaiian island of Molokai about Hansen's disease and the history of the Kalaupapa leprosy settlement and helped the state end its forced quarantine of the colony, died at 79.

As of our visit to Molokai on September 13, 2017 there were 14 Lepers living on Molokai.

 

The leprosy victims, arriving by ship, were sometimes told to jump overboard and swim for their lives. Occasionally a strong rope was run from the anchored ship to the shore, and they pulled themselves painfully through the high, salty waves.

The ships crew would then throw into the water whatever supplies had been sent, relying on currents to carry them ashore or the exiles swimming to retrieve them.

"Stunning views. Do it once and cross it off your bucket list." Mary

 
   
   
   
   
David
   
David
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
SOFTLY THE EVENING CAME WITH ANOTHER SUNSET
 
   
   
   
Honolua Bay Rainforest
David
Honolua Bay Rainforest
Honolua Bay
   
The Westin Ka'anapali Ocean Resort Villas
Kahekili Beach
Our last night on Maui!
The word 'Mahalo' in Hawaiian means thank you.
 
Wendy, Savannah Catalina, Capri, Savannah
Josh, Wendy, Savannah, Catalina, Capri, Wendy  
Catalina Capri, Josh
Catalina, Josh, Capri Catalina
Josh
Capri, Catalina Capri
Catalina Capri, Catalina
 
Preston, Paul
Preston
 
Dave, Teddy
 
   
   
   
   
   
   

 


 
   
 
Zoo Day - Savannah
Savannah, Steve
 
Savannah's school twin day
 
Cora 7 months
 

Michael texted...Were on the Train!
On our way to Portland, Oregon.
Seems like just yesterday then dad and I were riding the train.

1994 - Den & Michael train trip (23 years ago)
1998 - Den & Michael (19 years ago)
Miles, Tara, Megan
Miles
  Megan
 
Mary's Godparents "Lu & Bob" Celebrating 70 years of Marriage
 
   
   
 
 
   
   
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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