Activities

The Unmet Challenge

by Bart King Our family is comprised of two grandparents, nine children, eight in-laws (one of them hugely pregnant), seven grandchildren, six members of the...

Ayers grand family tradition

The Ayers Family Reunion started in 1953 at James Ayers 500th wedding anniversary according to Patsy Gibson, Lucas, Texas. They alternate between lakes and community...

Cuzzin’ lip syncing

by Sharon Menk Hibschman Family Reunions regularly include a Cuzzin' Lip Sync Contest. "The Blues Brothers," "Dolly Parton" and even "Elvis" have visited the reunion....

More Ideas

From Gannett News Service, Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, New York. Bake-off. Have relatives bring their best cakes,...

An Elvis sighting

There was a whole lot of shakin' going on at the Berger Family Reunion in Leipsic, Ohio. Robert Berger, Jr, an Elvis impersonator, left family...

The Longest Toe

by Patricia Webster Stewart I first became aware of Webster family toes when my mother said my dad's brother Uncle Tom Webster's "toes are so...

Does anyone have a bush jacket?

by Carol C. Michels The first Donahue Family Reunion I remember was in a park north of New York City. I was about seven and...

Reunion Bells

Patricia Miller, 55, and Nate Molden, 59, combined two powerful family rituals by arranging a surprise wedding ceremony at their Starling-Wilbourn Family Reunion in Chicago....

Reunion Worship

How many families can go to the church their ancestors started and attended regularly nearly 126 years ago? A majority of Howitt Family Reunion members...

Homecoming Collage at an Arkansas reunion by Neva Barnes McMurry

My siblings, our descendants, "coat-tail" kin, and many others who had "scattered like quail," as Mama often said, enjoyed our Barnes Family Reunion in Northwest...