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<\/a> <\/p>\nCamille’s father lives in this little farm house tucked in and amongst Amish pastures and fields.<\/p>\n
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THE LANE<\/h3>\n
\u00a0 This is the long, winding lane that leads to the house. All siblings but Camille lived for some period of time at “The Farm.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Camille’s parents, five of their six children, three grandchildren, spouses and nine great grandchildren.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0 Brother John is the photographer behind the scenes. Here he is staging the group portrait and taking candid shots. When we all took turns speaking to the group about our past year, asked to go first so he could take photos of the rest of us speaking from our hearts. In the space of a few hours, he took two hundred photos. Most of the pictures on this page are John’s good work.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Father John and mother Janice, 87 and 82 obviously relished this opportunity to see so much of the family at one time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mom and Dad had their six kids during the baby boom era. Camille, the oldest was born in 1954 and James, the youngest (far left back row) was born in 1965. Brother Bob, third born and nine days older than Bob of Trouts Farm is in the front row and brothers John, the second born and Joe, fourth born are in the back row. Michael, the fifth born did not make it to the reunion.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0 <\/a> There is something in every animal’s psyche that requires food to fertilize relationships. Everyone brought a dish or two and we feasted on home cooked food.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well, except for the pizza which we bought at a local pizzeria for the great grand kids on Mom’s recommendation. As you can see, it was a hit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0 <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Charity and Jason’s youngest isn’t ready for pizza just yet.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Christina and Lou have taken to parenthood like fish to water.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The young mothers pick out clothes made in Ghana for their kids. Josiah prepares to take a nap.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Camille’s Mom was in her element and full of love as always.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Joe suggested we take turns speaking to the group about our year and when it was his turn Camille’s father said, “I am learning to accept reality without losing faith – a hard thing to do for a Pole.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Camille talked about the shock of returning to the same place and finding a cache of social capital. Joe spoke from his heart about his plans to create an community of Priests in San Francisco.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bob, ever charming shared his story about how he and Camille threw in together and created a wonderful life together.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Debbie and Bob spoke from their hearts as well.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With young Alexander in her arms, Darla described the trails of her recent work history.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As one candid story after another flowed from one mouth to many ears, we were all captivated.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Brian and Maggie brought us up to date about their roles as caregivers for aging family members. Brian’s mother is Camille’s Aunt Jeanette.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lou spoke for both he and Christina because she was outside keeping an eye on the kids. James was his usual affable self even though he had some serious news to share with us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Charity and Brandon talked about the challenges and rewards of raising five young children.<\/p>\n Family get together in Shippensburg on May 24, 2014 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n THE FARM <\/p>\n \n Camille’s father lives in this little farm house tucked in and amongst Amish pastures and fields.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n THE LANE <\/p>\n \n This is the long, winding lane that leads to the house. All siblings but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sub-story","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6763"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11868,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions\/11868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nMOST OF US<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nTHE MAN BEHIND THE SCENES<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nBASKING IN THEIR EIGHTIES<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/p>\nBABY BOOMERS<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nGETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/a><\/p>\nPIZZA!<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nEVERYONE EATS<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nBRIGHT AS A NEWLY MINTED PENNY<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nBABY CLOTHES<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nMOM, DEAR<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nFATHER JOHN<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nTRUE STORIES<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nTHE SIXTH SON<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nDEBBIE AND BOB<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/p>\nDARLA<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nBRANDON<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nBRIAN AND MAGGIE<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/p>\nLOU AND JIM<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nCHARITY AND JASON<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n____________________________________________________________<\/h3>\n
[Troutsfarm]<\/a> * [May, 2014]<\/a> * [Cabin John and DC]<\/a> * [Rumson and Sandy Hook]<\/a> * [Hiking on North Mountain]<\/a> * [Touring Dickinson Farm]<\/a> * [Family Reunion]<\/a><\/h4>\n
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