The Family Reunion

This weekend we had 30 people in town and over to our house each night. It was the 100th anniversary of my grandfather's connection with his boyhood friend, Carl Bellwinkel in Dortmund, Germany. Over the last 100 years, there have been 23 visits of the Germans to the US, and 36 visits by our family to Germany. We have been together having a wonderful time. Lobster dinners, basketball tournaments, (my son Ben and I won - being tall really helps) great conversations, laughter, trips to Newport. We are all looking forward to another gathering in 2009, location under discussion, but possibly in Ithaca, Greece, where Theo is from orginally.