June 1, 1989: Nina came from Cornell – J. from Phila – to talk and wash a few windows. Lovely warm days.
Newcomers in the family:
Lindley Marie Henderson Oct. 23, 1988 (Shunk, PA)
Charles Ernest Eisenhood Jan. 28, 1989 (Albuquerque, NM)
Joel Adam Blondy May 29, 1989 (Sydney, Australia)
June 11, 1989, Sunday: Nick & I drove down Friday in the rain from new Haven. 8 hours. Arrived 11 pm to a “locked” gate, surprised Daddy & Joanne & Timmie (turns out Timmie didn’t come after all) & Paul weren’t there yet. (When Daddy says he’ll arrive @ 9:02 pm he arrives @ 9:02 pm.) Back to Shunk in the fog, got keys from Lucy. Learn next a.m. the gate & house weren’t locked, (?) only closed (was I asleep?). Anyway it was magical to arrive first at this secluded house in the pitch black woods. Usually when I arrive there are fires burning & lights shining. We tried to get a fire going w/wet logs, succeeded just as Daddy, Joanne & Jason arrived ~ midnight! Paul arrived hours later in brand new rental car. Today we walked around the lake & used Paul’s pocket guide to identify ferns – many more kinds than it might at first seem. Yesterday I picked various tiny wildflowers at Hawes’ to identify, including tiny white swamp violets (?), housetail (prehistoric), & lesser stitchworts, also white. Today we saw wintergreen (red berries stage), starflowers, Canadian mayflowers, something Joanne calls skunk cabbage (the book says it isn’t), buttercups, blueberry blossoms, pink honeysuckle, mt. laurel, …
Sarah
June 11, 1989: Paul & I went fishing yesterday. About a dozen catches, mostly throwbacks (pike, sunfish, small bass); today we lunched on Paul’s 20+ inch big mouth, 5+ lbs (?) pre-cooking wait.
Nick Monroe
Bird Count: Hairy Woodpecker, Humming Bird, Gt. Blue Heron, 7 Canada Geese, yellow Bellied Sapsucker, Eastern Phoebes – and nest on outside light with 3 babies (June 12), Red-wing Blackbird, Hawk.
Soireé D’ Été June 25, 1989: On Sunday, June 25, Lakehouse II was transformed into the only 3-star French restaurant Shunk (and even Sullivan County) has ever seen. Chef Paul Kowert, accompanied by his kitchen utensils, journeyed from Ithaca, NY, to treat a select number to the most exquisite délices de la palette one could imagine. (menu follows). Guests in attendance included:
- Joanne & ken Ford, Philadelphia, PA
- Nina T. – Ithaca
- Jeremy Telman – Ithaca
- Lucas Ford – France, Denmark & Philly
- Dale Baumunk – Shunk
- Emily Baumunk – Shunk
- Chef Paul Kowert (MAC) – Ithaca
Despite the 2.4 sticks per person of butter consumed all participants lived to tell about the meal and it will surely go down in the legendary annals of …
Nina
Paul’s Cahateau de Shunk combines excellent food (variations on the theme of butter) w/ a quaint rustic atmosphere. Main occupations for the weekend included eating and… eating. Eppy the Epson accompanied me to become perhaps the 1st laptop computer to stay by the lake.
Jeremy
Back again… and this time I brought my kitchen with me. Although Jeremy’s computer didn’t eat much butter at all, the rest of us were able to consume more than our share during a marathon dinner that lasted four hours. Jeremy, Nina, and Mrs. Ford did all of the hard work (mincing onions, washing thousands of dishes, …) and I got to take the credit. What a deal!
The menu (see next page) included escargots in puff pastry, a vegetable soupe en croüte, filets of sole stuffed with a white butter sauce, a beaujolais wine sorbet, an herb-stuffed leg of lamb with baked tomatoes and mushrooms, asparagus in balsamic vinegar with chevre, a tricolor chocolate mousse, and a fresh fruit tart. I hope everyone recovers. Thanks, Paul
Soirée d’Été, 1989
à l’honneur de Nina Tannenwald et Jeremy Telman
Feuilleté d’Escargots
Vouvray Mousseux J.M. Monmousseau
Soupe Telman en Surprise
Délice de Sole Tannenwald, Sauce Beurre Blanc
Granité Beaujolais
Gigot d’Agneau aux Herbes
Tomates Provençales et Champignons Farcis
Graves, Chateau Bouscaut
Aspèrges en Balsamique, Chèvre sur Croûtons
Mousse au Chocolat Tricolore
Tarte aux Fruits
Grande Fine Cognac, Grand Armangnac
Café, Thé
26 June: On my way from Philly up to the Soirée d’été, I stopped in New York to catch a plane to Luxembourg, then went to Paris, and then Arles to learn French for two months so I could read the menu, then to East Grinstead, England to make some cash to get the return ticket, and on the way back visited Denmark for nine months (Båring Højskole, Fyn) and Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, and Italy for shorter periods and thereby arrived late but no one noticed as there were similar delays between the first and second courses and also the snails were still hot, and then I went sailing the next day. – Lucas
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8/5/89: Sandy Whipple The first, but I hope not the last visit to this marvelous place.
8/5/89: Peter …
89 AUG 5,6,7: Juliet + Eliot (Gibbs), Edna + Greg Dripps, Margaret + jay Haon, Elizabeth & Henry Kolm: Sat–Sun–Mon visit via Navajo & two hertz Pontiacs from IPT. (8 persons). Eliot introduced to Lindley (not love at first sight) Margaret & Jay go climbing Sunday – show & tell about technical rock climbing high tech equipment; Greg introduced to sailing; henry takes lots of naps; Blueberry Pies!!!
Nina, Bobby, Lucas leave early Monday
Lucas cooks … Danish meals; henry fixes dishwasher; news of 89: Cornelia pregnant, baby due Sep 30
Juliet & Dave buy new house in Sudbury
henry starts new venture: Magneplane International, Inc.
EML now 55 employees. First wedding in company.
August 7, 1989, 7:20 a.m.: Lucas & I are about to depart. I’m half asleep but Joanne has instructed me to write here … I’m leaving in a few weeks for San Diego (!) & may not show my face again for a long time. Lucas & I are ruining line-up photos. We all slept on the covered porch & listened to the frogs on the lake all night. Sarah
This was a most delightful 3-day weekend. I feel refreshed and happy and, of course, not ready to go back to work!
– Eddie
Ken & Joanne
… … ! It’s a delight to share Shunk with your family. Lots of food and hospitality to go around. This is a refuge for overworked & underpaid gradual students. I’ll look forward to my next pilgrimage. Perhaps you’ll let me return the favor in Ithaca. It’s great fun to be part of the Baumunk/Ford retreat. Thanks again.
Bobby
Aug. 12: A week of perfect weather. Today it rains. I did some Bat watching each evening and tried to get pictures. A nearly-white med. sized skunk was eating his way across mother’s lawn one sunny a.m. – not alarmed by my approach. Several raccoon visitors on deck. The flock of cedar Waxwings was at end around our dock most of yesterday a.m. I’ve seen them in several places, although they usually stay at the upper end.
For the next two weeks Ken and I will be in N.M. taking care of Charles while Caroline & Bill go to Alaska.
Joanne
20th Sept 1989: Edna & John from Southampton U.K., have visited Lake House no2 and have been overwhelmed by the vitality embodied within its walls.
Sep. 22-24: Charlie and I were here. Bill couldn’t come with us cause he had to work.
We flew to Boston on the 15th (Charlie was a pretty good traveller), went to Lisa’s wedding on the 16th, visited with the Kolms (we stayed there), then took a train to Philadelphia (Charlie was excellent train traveller) on the 19th. Lucas picked us up at the station (I hadn’t seen him in almost 2 years!) then we went straight to the airport to pick up Mommy & Daddy arriving from Russia. Spent a couple days being a blob in Philly. Charlie got to be in a walker again and was very happy. He got his 7th tooth on the 22nd!
This was Charlie’s first trip east, first time at the lake. It was very windy, rainy, & cold (Hurricane Hugo passed through). We bundled Charles up and took him around outside. He liked looking at all the blowing leaves and trees. the first night here a tree blew over and cut our phone line in two. Bill had been trying to call and was getting worried.
Everyone (Dale & Lucy, Ann & Bob & Lindley, Gramma & Poppop, M & D, Lucas, me & Charlie) had a yummy supper here on Saturday night. I showed slides from Bill’s & my Alaska Trip.
Lucas and I played lots of Kismet and Trivial Pursuit (I forced him to play) and Scrabble. In Philly we played Global Pursuit and he always won.
When we first arrived in Shunk we stopped in the store to say hi. Charlie met his second cousin Lindley. We put them on the floor together—they were pretty fun to watch. They grabbed at each other and Lindley stole Ch’s toys from him. Later (at the lake) Bob took video of the tow of them. Charlie was quite good meeting everyone and only broke into scared tears a couple times.
Bill & I have had quite an eventful year:
- Jan 21 – bought new house
- Jan 28 – Charles Ernest born 5lb, 10oz, 18½”
- Feb – I turn 26
- Mar – Sam turns 16
- Apr – I go back to work part-time (a.m.) at PDA
- May – trip to California to visit Bill’s family
- June – Bill turns 46
- July – go to baseball games, enjoy summer
- Aug – Bill & I go to Alaska
- Sep – Charlie & I go east to visit my family
- Oct – Peg & Gramma Ree will visit for the balloon fiesta in Albuquerque
OK, sorry I wrote so much. Once I started I couldn’t stop! It was beautiful here yesterday—the first blue sky I’ve seen in a week. The leaves are just starting to turn here. I wish Bill were here to enjoy it with me. (Next year!)
Caroline
Oct. 22: A beautiful few days spent in front of the roaring fire & around the rain-swollen lake. Now… back to Vermont. Henny
Oct. 24: Closing up the house. Dal, et al, with chainsaw and wood splitter, made happy work of cutting wood for winter. Mother & I gathered more sandstones for our future stone wall along the driveway. Daddy “dug” out big hard flat stones from the layers on the Grade. Lts of stones to work with. I’m photographing trees for Natural History class. Discovered Gypsy Moths on Beeches, mostly. Beautiful day – bare trees, carpet of color. J.