Hello Azure fans.  Kinda' quiet on the posts lately.  Had knee replacement surgery 4 1/2 weeks lately and it's slowed me down.  I've been living on the downstairs which does work pretty well.  I will get moved up pretty soon.

I don't know I featured this picture last spring.  This was my Hearth Archives group from temple standing in front of our installation.  I went to Kol Nidre service and it's still there. It was supposed to be a six week study group and it ended up for almost a year.

Temple Israel Boston

 One thing that I wanted to do in Massachusetts was to visit Temple Israel Cemetery.  My grandparents and my grandmother's family are buried there.  There was a very helpful person at Temple Israel, told me that Edward Cohen (my great-grandfather) had purchased a plot with 12 spots in 1945.  Of course he would.  He has six children.  He himself is buried in a similar monument a little bit down.

I found my grandparent's stone and lots of great aunts and uncles though I did know that much about them

We placed rocks on the stones, as always, to show that we were there..They had a graveside there in the mid 1990s when my grandmother passed.  But my father forbade myself, my brother and sister from going.  I could never figure that out.

But now me, my husband and my sister have visited.

Hey Simon

To see this, you have to click on the facebook link below

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1094687268684171

Hey Simon!  He's 7 months old, really trying to crawl.  Pretty good for a guy who spent his first week in a level 4 NICU.  We'll take it.

Somehow it goes next to a long border collie video, I dunno.

He's pretty dang cute.

Again the Lederer Cousin Gathering

 

A few more pictures of the Lederer Family Gathering taken by my cousin Flash Rosenberg.

The top one is again Team Clara in the sanctuary with the Lederer torah.

The bottom one was a toast at the end where we all toasted together for the great times that day and our ability to all be a family.  One can be better.

Will we all be together again?  Who knows? I haven't seen Team Clara (actually a name I made up) for many years.  Not so long this time, eh?  And pretty good looking, no?

I have not been around here as I had knee replacement surgery.

Thinking about the future

 Some of the questions we pondered at our recent Cousins Gatherins were

1. How do we interest the young people in our family history and our relatives.

2. How will future family know we are here gathered.

I worked on the document above.  We used archival paper and archival pens.  We wanted this document found years from now showing we were all here and together.  We also asked the participants to write a message to those in the future.

We want to hear from our ancestors and we want our descendants  to hear from us.

So we made 4 big pages and asked people to sign and write.  A big success.  People took it seriously; we filled all the pages.

Where it goes from here? 

Picture here from Flash Rosenberg

Remodeled Seattle Pops Opening

    https://www.facebook.com/SeattlePops/videos/872132518190804

Really cute video of Suzie giving a walkthrough through pf the remodeled Seattle Pops store.  They needed more freezer space and more preparation area.  So they redesigned the front retail part.\

She and the video person do a great job of doing the tour.  They started this during the early spring and expected it to be open months ago.  They've been selling pops on their patio like a farmer's market.

Finally opened!  We visited shortly after the opening and had a pop!

I could figure out to add the link to make a pretty picture but I think you can cut and paste and figure it out.

Welcome back Seattle Pops with your store's reopening

Back to the Lederer Cousins meeting

Going to go back to the Lederer Cousins for a bit as I have some great new pictures.  This was taken at a stairway at the synagogue.  Taken my always star cousin Flash Rosenburg.

Each of the people in this picture is a great grandchild of Samuel and Marie Abeles Lederer.  Or related to one by genetics or marriage.  Samuel ran a tannery in Manhattan and later in New Brunswick New Jersey

It wasn't a reunion because most of us hadn't met before.  Though us Clara descendants, we had a great turnout. Here's an even better picture of Team Clara taken in the sanctuary of Anshe Emeth  Memorial Temple.  On the bima with the Lederer torah.  Pretty good group to be related to, don't you think?

 

The beach house

 One of the highlights of our trip was the beach house belonging to my cousin and her husband.  Water front to the Branford river  as it enters Long Island Sound.  My first cousin Malcom and Dennis relaxing on the new deck.

It's something Mary Ann really wanted but it seemed out of reach.  But they decided to spend some money on what they really wanted and, luckily, this place just came on the market.  They heard about it even before and quickly put in an offer.  Meant to be!  The house is of modest size, about 600 sq feet.but set up for visitors.  They've put a lot of work on it.  But this is a payoff for the visitors.  It was so great to be a visitor.

Team Clara

Sam and Marie Lederer, owners of a tannery in New Jersey had eleven children all who survived until adulthood.  One was Clara Lederer Baumann is my great grandmother.  Several of her great grandchildren 'Team Clara' came to the Cousin Gathering.  Here is a picture!  The man on the left is my husband.  The two people on the right are Harlie and Bob.  Harlie did a LOT putting the event together.

The seven in the middle is Team Clara!  Myself, my sister, my cousin and several second cousins.  Never before bieig in the same place at the same tiime

ps  I had the buttons just for fun!