France 2022
With the pandemic and lockdown fading fast in the rear view mirror, I proposed to my son Pat that he join me in visiting our cousins in France this summer.
Chicago Botanic Garden
Chicago Botanic Garden Editor's Note: Sunday brought the Reunion crowd another gorgeous, sunny day. The Buehler Enabling Garden was exclusively set aside for the Canavan Reunion group, as was our exclusive tram tour of the Garden's 385 acres. [...]
1994 Charley and June Leftwich Bowe are Married in Cape Porpoise, Maine
1994 Charley and June Leftwich Bowe are Married in Cape Porpoise, Maine Editor's Note: In August, 1994 my cousin Charles Bowe married June Leftwich in Cape Porpoise Maine. The church ceremony was in a wonderful setting and the afternoon [...]
1989 The Lacombe Family at 14 Avenue Georges Mandell on the Eiffel Tower’s 100th Birthday, Paris, France
1989 The Lacombe Family at 14 Avenue Georges Mandell on the Eiffel Tower's 100th Birthday, Paris, France Editor's Note: On a visit to Paris in February, 1989, I was on the my Aunt Nancy and Uncle Jacques Riboud's [...]
1991 Sophia Lacombe and Myriam Riboud at Jean Robert and Cecilia Lacombe Kuhn’s Rue Brey Apartment
1991 Sophia Lacombe and Myriam Riboud at Jean Robert and Cecilia Lacombe Kuhn's Rue Brey Apartment Editor's Note: In November, 1991, I visited Jean Robert and Cecelia Lacombe Kuhn's apartment on Rue Brey in Paris. While Sophia Lacombe chatted [...]
1991 Ribouds, Caseys and Bowes Watch Tape of Jean Robert and Cecilia Lacombe Kuhn Wedding
1991 Ribouds, Caseys and Bowes Watch Tape of Jean Robert and Cecilia Lacombe Kuhn Wedding Editor's Note: In November, 1991, Margaret and Ted Casey and I joined the Riboud family in Chindrieux, France to attend the funeral of our [...]
1989 Lunch in Paris with the Ribouds, Lacombes and de la Chapelles
1989 Lunch in Paris with the Ribouds, de la Chapelles and Lacombes Bill Bowe first visited France to visit his Aunt Nancy and Uncle Jacques Riboud in 1963, his junior year in college. Stationed in the Army in Washington, [...]
Richard Lawrence Gwinn, Jr. (1867-1932)
Richard Gwinn, Jr. (1867-1932) is featured in this slide show. After his first wife, Mary Roche, died giving birth to Mary Gwinn (Bowe) in 1901, he was remarried in 1907 to Elizabeth Tack. Soon Mary was joined by three new sisters, Betty, Martha and Nancy.