You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.


Vortex - Oct 11, 2010 8:05:41 am PDT #1760 of 3094
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I would highly recommend Regent Cruise Lines for working, if for no other reason that they are small and nice.

My mom and I sailed on Regents, the boat was very nice, and the crew all seemed pretty happy. I got to know some of them pretty well, and some of them had worked on other lines. they had good things to say about Regents.


Java cat - Oct 11, 2010 9:31:29 pm PDT #1761 of 3094
Not javachik

Sox, wow, I'm behind on info. Well, welcome to Penn's sylvania.

My mother, who was born in 1916 and who is doing pretty well these days, played bridge with her contemporary Peg Kemper, whose father was an MD in Pittsburgh, so, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Peg said that they had to wash their curtains every week, there was so much soot in the air.

Except for some shopping, visiting the sister, and cultural stuff with the family or school field trips, I didn't spend much time anywhere except around my home town. I moved to Calif. just a few years after high school. But! I went to a 50 yr. reunion of contemporaries of my parents at their son's house on Burry Avenue in Bradford Woods -- isn't that part of Forest Hills? Very pretty. I know Sewickley better from horse world stuff.

eta: after a little Google mapping, nope! It's pretty shocking how bad my geography is for anything not right next to the old hometown.


flea - Oct 12, 2010 3:55:45 am PDT #1762 of 3094
information libertarian

If anyone is interested in ancient (i.e. 19th century) Pittsburgh history, I have been doing some genealogy about my family there. My family dominates Washington, PA, from about 1790 on and my branch went to Pittsburgh in the 1840s; my grandfather was born in Shadyside in 1913. The Pittsburgh family memoir The Spencers of Amberson Avenue by Ethel Spencer (a good read!) is by his first cousin. Everybody is buried in Allegheny Cemetery. I think one of these years I'm going to need to do a Pittsburgh and Washington genealogy field trip.


Trudy Booth - Oct 12, 2010 4:01:27 am PDT #1763 of 3094
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

My Pittsburgh people are Pernells. If any of us are related that would be fun.


Connie Neil - Oct 12, 2010 5:58:00 am PDT #1764 of 3094
brillig

flea! Did any of your people wander down to Greene County? My folks are all over the central part of Greene County, Whitlatchs and Brocks and Whites and Fordyces and Livengoods and and and . . .


flea - Oct 12, 2010 6:42:31 am PDT #1765 of 3094
information libertarian

I have Achesons in Washington and Pittsburgh, and after the move to the big city I have Irwin, Hays, Hawkins, and Reiter. Very highfalutin' too - bankers and judges and industrialists.


Connie Neil - Oct 12, 2010 8:08:49 am PDT #1766 of 3094
brillig

Ah, I've got no rich folk. Farmers and laborers and distillers (which I don't think is a polite way of saying moonshiner, but I'm not sure).

edit: though I'm very proud of my Dutch pirate who sailed for the Salee Rovers out of Morocco. He sacked the town of Baltimore in Ireland!


DavidS - Oct 12, 2010 12:25:09 pm PDT #1767 of 3094
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

though I'm very proud of my Dutch pirate who sailed for the Salee Rovers out of Morocco. He sacked the town of Baltimore in Ireland!

Cool! I've been to the town of Baltimore in Ireland. It is indeed a port town worth sacking.


Connie Neil - Oct 12, 2010 12:34:36 pm PDT #1768 of 3094
brillig

Dear Great-Grandpa Jan Jansen van Harleem, dba Murat Reis.


dcp - Oct 12, 2010 4:47:55 pm PDT #1769 of 3094
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I pretty much said it all last time: dcp "Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail." Oct 1, 2009 4:34:44 pm PDT

All I can think to add is that I made an effort to go to the F2F in Providence RI in June, and I'm very glad I did. Met some great people, saw some neat things.