This page provides links to archived PDFs of all posts published on News from Nan in 2019.
Highlights
Activities, events
Visit to Ansel Adams’ studio in Carmel
Blomquist visit in the new year
Visit to the Cantor Museum at Stanford
Dia de los Muertos race in Alviso
Doing citizen science for Nan
Easter at the Livengoods’
Filoli house and gardens
Guadalupe River cleanup
Guadalupe River flood control
Halloween
Hiking at Alviso
February birthdays: Mike and Rick
Mother’s Day at the Livengoods
Our talented grandkids
Palm Sunday at Stanford Memorial Church
Remembering and paying tribute
September visit to Sonoma County
Weekend in Merced
Travel
Family vacation in Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons
Rhine River cruise with the Livengoods
Minnesota for Helena’s 5th grade graduation
Minnesota for Thanksgiving
Family history, genealogy
Anna and Dick remember
We wanted to grow up to be cowboys
Dick: Country music in San Diego during the 1950s
Anna’s paternal ancestors (vanRaaphorst/Metsch/Dienst)
Chris and Elisabeth van Raaphorst
John and Nan van Raaphorst
Anna’s maternal ancestors (Riedel/Schreiter)
Aunt Sal and Uncle Art’s 60th anniversary
Book about the Saxonia settlers
Nan remembers: Valentine greetings
Nan remembers: “Dear Eliz” – a story from her days as a high school teacher
Nan remembers: The Riedel/Schreiter cottage
Anna: Comments on the Riedel cottage
Dick’s paternal ancestors (Johnson/Robins)
Dick’s family during World War I
Johnson family member shot by an Italian
Dick’s maternal ancestors (Moseley/Wilkins/Rebmann)
Dick’s family during World War I
Moseley/Burns marriage
Unfaithful husband in the Moseley family
Rebmann family migration to the U.S.
Linguistics, languages
Miscommunication: “Four one lane bridge”
Miscommunication: “Trouble shotting your thermometer”
Miscommunication: “Venomous reptiles”
Technology, computer history
History of information retrieval
History of natural language queries
