Long Island
We head to the Simanoff ancestral homeland to catch up with relatives
and pay homage to a great American writer.

   

Snow: Not as pretty as I had been led to believe
Eliana and Abby pull up a chair
Eric and Abby
Rich and Sabrina
Sabrina
Rockin' with Eliana
How many adults does it take to put a child's shoes on?
Abby meets Daal
Eliana and Daal play dress-up
Daal looks fetching in his pink cowboy hat
The Simanoffs: Sabrina, Eliana, Rich and April
The Milgrims: Eric, Abby, Randi
Aunt Sandy and Uncle Larry
Elephant compartments in the rental car!
My old house, which has not yet become a museum ...
... unlike Walt Whitman's old house
Prussian blue in the Walt Whitman house
Elephants look for leaves of grass ... to eat!
Dave and Britt sing the body electric
Aunt Roberta and Uncle Fred, as seen in the Principal magazine
Dave squints and Britt blinks at the 56th Fighter Group