Ben (sitting next to Solomon) at the Penn Children's Center
"Mr. Jeff" (Jeff Chou) sitting with Hannah and (to her right) Bengt
Williams, at the Penn Children's Center

We visited our friends
John and Deirdre in Sante Fe in March 1996.

Al at his
desk in Bennett for an
article
that appeared in
the Philadelphia Inquirer on his internet poetry course for alumni
In August we visited our beloved Frost Valley, where we
hiked to Banks Hill above Biscuit Creek, and roasted marshmellows over
a campfire, with friends Dawn & Jim Huebner, and Rebecca White Petrutiu,
and their kids...
Hannah loved Reflection Pond during this visit.

Late night at the computer, playing Freddie Fish, August 1996

Ben's drawing of a pig's head, Fall 1996 (water color, paper cut-outs)

Jenny Handscher (later Filreis) with a younger sister, Warsaw, c. 1910s

After seeing Free Willy for the first time (10/96), Ben reproduced
the film's seaquarium in blocks.

Ben
owns (as of Nov. 30, 1996) a speckled collared lizard named "Spike."

My
father's brother, Manny Filreis, and their cousin Mel Filreis, whom
we found after many years by an Alta Vista search (December 1996)

Hannah at the Penn Children's Center holiday pageant, as a snowperson
(December 1996)

Hannah rides a pony at Andrew Winston's birthday party (May 1997)

Al at a Writers House celebration

Hannah and her cousins'
dog, Katie

Ben & Hannah
riding in a wagon, Memorial Day 1997

Solomon, Ben, and Ashleigh at Penn Children's Center, Winter 1996-97

Ben's 6th birthday party, July 1997

siblings in motion (photos by Pelopidas Nicolaides)

Ben's school portrait, Friends Central, Fall 1997
Writers
House renovation building committee, chaired by Al, in photo taken at the
celebration of the re-opening of the house, December 1997
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