Marge and I being married in 1960
Marge’s 1961 birthday photo
Marge's 1961 birthday photo
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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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Vacation Over
Summer is over now. Marge and the girls have come back from their long visit in the Tampa, Florida area. We did go to the Jersey shore for a week and discovered a very small, very loud Florida frog in the trailer. Marge located him and took him outside and he is now on his own. Some car problems with our 1970 Ford station wagon, house and home projects; the miscellany of life in suburbia. I am looking forward to some business trips and school for the girls will soon begin. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA, memoir, Pennsylvania
Tagged coopersburg, family, Marge, PP&L, road travel
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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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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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May 1977
The sunny South, land of Tara and “Gone with the Wind”. Also, Live Oaks and Spanish moss. Our annual Spring vacation where we went to get a head start on spring in PA. The Civil War, aka War of Northern Aggression, started here. View a Park Service video of Fort Sumter history. Join us. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA, memoir, Summer vacations
Tagged coopersburg, driving, family, fun, Marge, vacation
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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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May Memories – 1975,Holiday, Wallenpaupack, Trailering Home improvements
Wallenpaupack holiday, Nichols family plot, Hancock, NY, Beverley Hills home, upgrading, new chairs, trailering, High school musicale Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Pennsylvania
Tagged children, church, coopersburg, driving, family, featured, life, memoir, music, PP&L
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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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Jan 1975, national economy, holidays, travel plans, new and old hobbies
A new year is upon us. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem better than last year. For us as a family the situation appears OK. Nationally is a different matter. One month we hear of a tax surcharge, than a tax rebate. … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA, Relationships
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, emotions, Marge, marriage, memoir, PP&L, singing
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Nov. ’74 – Home Improvements, Music, Teeth Bands and Braces, PP&L
I started the month more or less anticipating my birthday. Getting perilously close to 40, a few years to go. The living room is in pretty good shape at this time. The new furniture arrived, and also a rug from … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, health, Ingrid, memoir, music, Pennsylvania, PP&L
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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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April 1974
March surely did go out like a lion this year. We had about an inch of snow on March 31, but it didn’t last long. The snow flakes were big and wet, came down hard for a few hours and … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, driving, featured, marriage, memoir, road travel
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Another New Year – 1974
Here we are again, now in 1974. I didn’t get around to writing until the end of the month for some unknown reason now, probably the Christmas rush, celebrations, etc. One of our Christmas day rituals was turning the house … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, driving, hobbies, life, love, marriage, memoir, Pennsylvania, relationships, road travel, taxes, trailer travel
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Notes on November -1973
November ’73, I am now a year older, but still under the figure of 40, another decade in the odometer of life. And so far it has been a good life. For us, this was a month of trips. The first gasoline crisis … Continue reading
Posted in Coopersburg PA, NY
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, emotions, friends, health, hobbies, life, love, marriage, memoir, PP&L, relationships, Trailers
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Independence Day – 1973
I had the day off since 4th is a holiday. Louise’s birthday is the 6th so we all celebrated a day early. Seven years old already, how did that happen? Of course, we had birthday cake and presents and altogether … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Pennsylvania
Tagged children, coopersburg, life, love, Marge, memoir, New York, PP&L, relationships, vacation
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Springtime For Frantzens – 1973
No, not Springtime For Hitler, that’s been done, but about me and my loved ones. I took a business trip to Oklahoma at the end of April. A local vendor of construction equipment was having a show in Oklahoma City and I … Continue reading
Posted in Coopersburg PA
Tagged coopersburg, dining, emotions, family planning, friends, hospital, Hydro electricity, mall, Marge, memoir, PP&L, Susquehanna, Trailers, tubal ligation
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Great Expectations – Our First Trailer Trip
I am shameless in appropriating titles, though we did in fact have great expectations for our first trailer vacation. The time was April 1973 just preceding Easter of that year. We made a trial trip to Lancaster PA to get an actual … Continue reading
Posted in Coopersburg PA, Pennsylvania
Tagged Atlantic coast, coopersburg, driving, emotions, Marge, memoir, Myrtle Beach, road travel, trailer
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Orphanage of Marge
I want to reprise a bit from the earlier long quote about the Charismatic Movement. It does still exist in different forms, but I don’t believe here (LV). Marge had made some very bad decisions in our early life and was … Continue reading
Posted in Marital difficulties, Pennsylvania
Tagged abandonment, anger, archetype, coopersburg, depression, emotions, friends, loneliness, marriage, memoir, misunderstanding, orphan, Religion
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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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Fish Tales
Most of us have seen a photo of the earth taken from a satellite, or space ship of some type. The earth, from this vantage, appears as a blue globe against a black field of darkness. Water covers eighty percent … Continue reading
Posted in Dannemora, NY, Relationships
Tagged Clinton Prison, coopersburg, Dannemora, depression, emotions, fishing, friends, ice fishing, Lake Champlain, memoir, misunderstanding, New York, relationships
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Cars And Carpentry
What has the post title got to do with Marge, Bob or us? In a way, an automobile is a tool. Its main purpose is to give us personal mobility. We don’t have to rely on foot power, real equine … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA
Tagged 1966 Cadillac, auto maintenance, Beverly Hills, cabinetmaking, Carpentry, coopersburg, driving, Marge, marriage, memoir, printing.1957 Cadillac, Rambler, tools
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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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Where the Hell is our Well?
The Way-Back machine is dialed to the first of March 1970. The water pressure in the house dropped, then stopped. Why? The first thing I thought of was that a circuit breaker had tripped. I checked this and no luck. Our big … Continue reading
Posted in Coopersburg PA, Pennsylvania
Tagged coopersburg, dining, drilled well design, friends, gravedigger, home wells, Submersible pump, well water
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The Iceman Cometh to Beverly Hills
No this isn’t about our own production of Eugene O’Neill’s famous play. It isn’t about play at all it’s about work. My work, and it was not working out to be a good day for me. This all has to … Continue reading
Posted in Pennsylvania
Tagged coopersburg, gutters and downspouts, Home repair, memoir, Pennsylvania, Rain gutters, Roof leaks
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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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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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55 Years Together 