Candid shots at the Reunion

Hard to get everyone together at once.  We're about 10 people short.  We missed all you who couldn't make it. 

The vote was to have the reunion NEXT year!  

 Same Weekend as the County Fair in Afton (probably the end of July). 

                    We hope you can make plans to be there.  There's lots to do and folks to meet.
            We're getting where we need name tags - neat to see 3rd and 4th generations growing up. 

The Family Reunion's Field Trip

Gene and Colleen with some of the woodwork taken from the old house (with permission).  What a nice memento.  

The field trip begins. 

Note the front porch - Dave was told that instead of rebar to reinforce the concrete, Os Low used railroad iron.  That porch hasn't moved a bit - it's still tight against the house and the steps show no sign of separating.  I wonder where the front sidewalk went (the one we see in the 1905 photo).

Gene, Garth, Dave, Kaylene and Colleen learn about the house.

Dave, Marilyn and Ron in the front parlor.

Gene remembered his father's casket being in front of that east window during his viewing in 1939.   In the 1905 photo you can see Molly Low looking out that door.

The door to the cellar off the original west kitchen.  The stove was behind us on the inside wall.

Looking down the cellar stairs. 

In the cellar - a good view of the rock foundation and plumbing added after World War II.

Gene describes how the front room fireplace smoked and was rarely used.

Andrea, Kaylene and Kathy listen.  The yellow room is the bathroom which was divided off the original kitchen.  The kitchen was moved to the original master bedroom and a door was cut out the west wall and a wooden porch added after the family  sold the house.

Where no Kennington had Ventured for Seventy Years...

The original kitchen door bricked up after WWII to make way for indoor plumbing.

The west side of the house.  The middle section originally held the kitchen.

South windows on what was originally Grandma and Grandpa's bedroom.

Reminds one of a haunted house. 

Stairs off the front room.  The basement stairs were under these from the west kitchen.

An old trunk left in the attic.

Lynette and the lady who gave us permission to look around.

Mike surveys the west side of the attic.

A small room on the south attic area.

Apparently the attic had always served as a storage area.  Uncle Gene said he was surprised at how little it had changed since they lived there.

Peak of uninsulated roof (brrrr).  A small attic is formed over the 2 south bedrooms.

North West bedroom - where the little boys slept after they served as bed warmers for older kids.

kitchen door into living room.  Originally the master bedroom, converted to kitchen after WWII.