FAMILY PICS

Here are two pics, probably from 1970, while we were living in Edgewater Park, outside of Charleston.

Paul, Bobbie, Beth, and me.

Not sure the occasion, though perhaps xmas time, with the girls in their red dresses. Mom, me, Bobbie, Paul, Dad, and Beth.

By April of 1971 we were finally off of Anona Beach on the Gulf and in our only Florida home, on Lake Keystone in Odessa, which is about twenty miles north of Tampa, give or take. This picture was taken in the back yard (and fails to show the huge trees we had, a large oak and Australian pine, plus numerous cypress).

On the occasion of our parents' twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, we gathered at the homestead for a party and family picture. Dad is wearing his white Guyabara, I think, with the string of Hawaiian kokoa nuts. Bobbie, me, Mom, Paul, Dad, and Beth. You can see slightly out the huge window to the lake, with the limbs of the old oak.

CHMILEWSKA LADIES

In 1970 my mother's younger sister Marijka came down with her Mother, who we called Babcia, for an Easter visit in Charleston, not long before we left for Tampa. My mother is on the right (and, can I say it? I did not like this outfit); grandmother in the middle, and Aunt Marijka (who is also my Godmother) on the left.

The next shot is with all of us children, (l. to r.) me, Bobbie, Paul, and Beth. I would be in maybe fourth grade at this point. I didn't realize how often our parents dressed my sisters alike (I have noticed this in other shots).