planny plan plan

Rather boring if you are not, um, me.

Trip to MA/NH for C's wedding:

Thurs 5/21
Leave home ca. 5am?
Flight leaves ATL 8am
Arrives BOS 10:27
Pickup by D? or Car-switch with vee?
Afternoon with D&D

Fri 5/22
Day with D&D - Mt. Auburn Cemetery? Children's Museum?

Sat 5/23
Leave 9am? to drive to NH (1h44min.) Bring clothes in car and change there?
Lunch in NH - with T&T? N&K? Need to email.
Wedding 1pm
Reception 3pm
Drive to MA when done.

Sun 5/24
Wedding anniversary. Get out alone?

Mon 5/25
Drive to airport ca. 11:30am.
Leave BOS 1:36pm
Arrive ATL 4:26pm
Drive home, arrive ca. 7pm.

Tue 5/26
Casper starts at YMCA

To do:
Get cell numbers and put them in phone.
Plan outfits for wedding, with backups.
Think hard about carrying on car seats, since checked bags cost $15 each.

Summer Vacation trip (June 27-July 5):
Questions to ask:
D - when is 25Q available? Sat 12 or Sun 12?
What will we do about cars, transport to/from airport/Cape? (Maybe we should rent?)
Vee - can you take some time off?
J&F - when should we come? What will we do if we come?

Great-great grandmother's grave

One recent summer when we were in MA, Mother and I went out to Woburn to look at the Count Rumford House, where my ancestors lived in the 1900s-1930s. We found some fun newspaper microfims in the Woburn library, but had to leave before we go to the point of checking out local cemeteries.

But, thanks to the wonderful powers of the internets, I have tracked down the family plot! It is in Woodbrook Cemetery in Woburn, right down town on Salem Street. (http://www.yeoldewoburn.net/Woodbrook.htm) The cemetery people have scanned their paper records and made them available online as pdfs, so I was able to discover, after a little poking around, that the family plot was owned by Rev. M G (Melancthon!) Wheeler, my g-g-g-grandfather. It is lot 563, located on "Pilgrim Ave" in the cemetery. Seven people are buried there: Mary W Almy (never heard of her); Frances C P Wheeler, 1-4-1905 (I think my g-g-g-grandmother, Melancthon's wife); John C Almy, 4-30-1906 (never heard of him); Rev M G Wheeler; Caroline P Wheeler; Wm Watson Hill, July 31 1934 (my g-g-grandfather); Frances Wheeler Hill, Apr. 12 1928, (my g-g-grandmother, whose silver I have). So we can go check them out! According to my grandmother, Frances Wheeler Hill was buried under a stone inscribed "She was and is a saint," chosen by her husband, much to the wonderment of the family and congregation. We'll see!