Marge and I being married in 1960
Marge’s 1961 birthday photo
Marge's 1961 birthday photo
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Category Archives: Allentown
Holiday Season 1978
Memories from past letters of mine. Also commentary now on those memories. We are now into the fall of 1978. The cold and cough season is upon us but nothing serious. I receive the official notification that I am now a Professional Engineer in PA, a goal that I worked on for a year. I was proud of this achievement. I was also proud of getting the truck ready for use as a tow vehicle. I now realized that I included much about Margery. I make what amends that I can here. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged coopersburg, Marge, memoir, Pennsylvania, PP&L
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Summer’s End 1978
Marge and I in 1978 were a middle age suburban Pennsylvania couple with two growing children. This post is about summer ending, a week at the beach, minutae of everyday life, hobbies, memories of the past and comments on them in the present. Join us. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA, memoir, Pennsylvania, Relationships, Summer vacations
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, family, friends, memoir, relationships
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July 1978
Summer vacation time in PA. Trips for me, mostly business related. I had a speaking engagement in Chicago and made a side trip to Dearborn, home of many museums and similar places of interest. I took a trip at Memorial day to Tampa to spend a few days there with a friend and so some sailing in the Gulf. That was a lot of fun. I went to Poughkeepsie, NY to visit a counterpart at Central Hudson Power. Marge and I both went to Williamsburgh, VA as I was going to a trade show of electric utility vehicles. Marge did some shopping and sightseeing. We left the girls at home and had a very nice time together. Pleasure with business, a good combination. I had a new eye exam and also a detailed hearing exam. Some minor problems but nothing serious. I took up the jogging craze and find it is a good way to unwind after a day at the office and get in good physical shape. I took the exam for a Professional Engineering license 20 years after graduation. It was exhausting but I believe I did OK. Future summer plans involve going to Virginia Beach with another couple for a vacation which we are all looking forward to. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA, Relationships, Summer vacations
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, friends, memoir, singing, vacation
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Winter 1978
Unusual, for us, stormy weather in January and February of 1978. This did cause some difficulty for me getting to work in Allentown due to drifting. Home repairs and improvement included putting a new relay in the furnace. That was easy. A harder task was getting up on the roof chipping ice from the flashings and repair interior water damage to the floor in place. Marge and I went to a local dinner theater a few times and also to a local production of “A Dolls House” Very pleasant. Marge’s sister Pat, fiance Adam, and her children Kathleen and Scott paid us a visit. Ingrid and I went to dinner on her birthday and to the movie “Close Encouners” Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Binghamton, Coopersburg PA, memoir, Pennsylvania
Tagged family, friends, fun, history, life, work
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January 1978
Marge and I work together on some home improvements in our kitchen. We also joined the church choir; another activity we both enjoy and pleasant together. I went to two utility conferences speaking at one of them. We were plagued by ice storms in the fall but managed to cope with the power outages. Indoor camping one might say. My Mom visited us from her home in Plattsburgh NY which we all enjoyed. The fall season visits us with the flu, though not too seriously. We look forward to the coming year including a trip to Georgia during Easter vacation time. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA, memoir, Pennsylvania
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, Marge, PP&L
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February 1977
Our family life in Eastern Pa in early 1977. Our children, our day to day lives over 40 years ago. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Binghamton, Coopersburg PA, Marge Writing, memoir
Tagged children, family, feelings, life
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Marriage Encounter
Marriage Encounter, an ongoing Catholic program for couples to enhance their relationship through improved dialog. This is our experience. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Binghamton, Coopersburg PA, Marital difficulties, Pennsylvania, Relationships
Tagged dialog, family, feelings, love, Religion
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Winter Wonders 1976
41 years ago, Thanksgiving and Christmas, trips, work, hobbies, cars and familys memories Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown
Tagged cars, children, coopersburg, Dannemora, driving, Marge, misunderstanding, road travel, singing
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Presidents Day ’76
February, the confusing Washington’s birthday holiday, MLK, race riots, car repair, health, vacation plans Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown
Tagged Beverly Hills, cars, emotions, health, Marge, misunderstanding, PP&L, relationships
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November News – 1975
Allentown November, very proper British clothes, car wreck, our music interests, ending in Thanksgiving. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA, Uncategorized
Tagged cars, children, church, driving, health, hobbies, life, music, Religion
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March 1975, Health, Teen Age, Music, Spring
March 1975 in Coopersburg, health, birthday, guitars, woodworking, films Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, featured, films, Marge, memoir, music
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Feb. 1975, Flu, Florida, Family, Guitar, Electronics, Furniture
Mid winter in PA, Flu, Florida, Trailer travel, Guitar, Electronics,Furniture Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA
Tagged coopersburg, driving, family, friends, health, Marge, memoir, music, PP&L, road travel
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July 1974- union strikes, major flood, trailer camping
Summer ’74 is definitely with us now, and for me an unusual experience, working as a helper on a line crew. A line crew installs and maintains the wiring from the electrical distribution system to the last customer. Was this … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown
Tagged Beverly Hills, children, dining, emotions, featured, Marge, memoir, misunderstanding, PP&L, Storms, trailer travel
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Easter Vacation 1974
I think that a slight change in style is proper. My sources, other than memories, are letters and notes from the time period in the blog title. I am trying to correctly represent that by writing in the past tense … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown
Tagged coopersburg, dining, driving, health, Marge, marriage, memoir, Moravian church, travel trailer
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WASP (Not the Insect)
The emotional rush of being in love and a couple, both figuratively and physically, ended about when the relationship texts proclaimed, that is, about 2 years after making our informal commitment to each other. Sure enough, we responded to the ancient call … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA, Marital difficulties, Pennsylvania, Relationships
Tagged baby, clothes, coopersburg, emotions, friends, Marge, marriage, memoir, mind prober, PA Power and Light, Pennsylvania, PP&L, relationships
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1970 – Pennsylvania
We have now moved down here and into the house on Beverley Hills. It was heart-rending to leave Vestal as we had made several improvements to the house to personalize it into being our home. Originally, we had planned on staying in … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Binghamton, Coopersburg PA, Relationships
Tagged alone, Beverly Hills, emotions, loneliness, loss, Marge, marriage, memoir, mind prober, misunderstanding, moving, personality
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The Green, Green, Grass of Home
April 7, 1970 was another step forward in transforming our new house into a finished home. When we bought the house, the lawn work had never been completed, and we understood that. The excavated material left from digging the basement piled … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Binghamton, Pennsylvania
Tagged coopersburg, featured, friends, grass, landscaping, marriage, memoir, Pennsylvania, PP&L, wedding anniversary, weeds
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Winter Wonderland on Beverly Hills
“It wonders me.” So said the Dutchman. The link “Dutchman News” will take you to news and Dutch recipes, but no Dutch uncles. This is also a WordPress site and will open in a new window. Click it, try it, … Continue reading
Posted in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Tagged coopersburg, Joseph Mitchell, Marge, Pennsylvania, TV antenna, VHF-UHF
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A Dark And Stormy Night
OK, that is a cliché, but it truly fits this post. Lets take the Way-Back machine to January 1969. Marge and I had planned on closing the sale in December of 1969 but unusual bad weather postponed the ceremony of … Continue reading
Marge’s Autobiography 1970-1980
I had not found a place to include some more of Marge’s autobiographical statements, and this seems a good place to pick up again. At the time this segment begins, we had moved to Coopersburg, PA to the Beverly hills home. She … Continue reading
Posted in Allentown, Marge Writing
Tagged Charismatic movement, coopersburg, job search, Marge, marriage, Marriage Encounter, marriage problems, memoir, singing
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Siegfriedale lane PA
Our first PA home was a rental farmhouse at the place below. I don’t have a photo from then, and Google maps was no help as I don’t have an exact address and the lane is a quite rural one, … Continue reading
Leaving Vestal
Have you ever had difficulty making a major decision? You know, such as “Is he/she the right one for me, or not?” “Should I buy this house/car/boat?” Probably most of you have at one time or another. I decision … Continue reading
Posted in Allentown, Vestal
Tagged job change, Marge, memoir, moving, Raquel Welch Poster
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55 Years Together 