July 2016 - Page 36 of 56 - Reunions Magazine

Civil Rights icon finds a new home

The bus in which civil rights activist Rosa Parks was riding when she refused to give up her seat to a white man is on...

Fleetwood Family does Oklahoma

The Fleetwood Family Reunion gathers descendants of Charles Fleetwood and Lucinda Morgan of Oklahoma and their 14 children. The first reunion was in Tahlequah, Oklahoma,...

Cruising Biloxi

Laura L. Bedard, Hudson, New Hampshire, wife of Roland, member of 1st Special Seabees, wrote that their reunion activities in Biloxi, Mississippi, included a one-day...

Getting There

The Taylor Family Reunion alternates their reunions between Buffalo, New York, and Chicago, Illinois. They hire a bus to transport the Chicago contingent to Buffalo...

Magnolia was a Goal

For one Gilmore Family Reunion in Arkansas the family chose the theme “Celebrating Our Roots.” A highlight of the three days was a charter bus...

Schürch Family Heritage Tours

After the Schürch family reunion registration and a delicious breakfast, we greeted “old” cousins and met “new” ones before 165 of us boarded buses for...

Dreisbachs tour Allentown, Bethlehem and Kreidersville, Pennsylvania, area

The Hidden History Bus Tour was a full day in the Lehigh Valley's “Dreisbach Country,” where 1743 immigrant Simon Dreisbach and his sons lived, worked...

Iowa Exploration

To get back to our roots, the Werdel Family Reunion planned a bus trip of Oelwein, Iowa. There was a drive through a small Amish...

Hvaler Homecoming

Homecoming Days Day One It was especially moving for us to visit Oslo buildings that were my grandfather's home, school and church 100 years ago....

Reuniting to Celebrate 100th Anniversary

From an extensive report by Fred Radewagen (Originally published in Reunions magazine, Vol. 13 n. 3, 2003) When my mother was confined with Alzheimer's disease...