FEATURES
By Rosemary Knower | June 26, 1991
I'm lucky enough to belong to a big family. That means, sur as July brings fireworks, flags and loud bugs, it brings a family reunion.When I was small, and the young generation of parents had just come back from the war, I sat at the children's table with 17 first, second, and collateral cousins aged 3 to 8 (we were allowed at the children's table as soon as we could feed ourselves and talk). Then came the middle table -- kids about 8 to 12. The teen-age table was occupied taking care of children's table one. The men ate first, along with the children.
NEWS
By NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE | July 5, 1998
EAGAR, Ariz. -- Down a dusty, rocky trail and through a knot of pine trees, past a naked guy chewing leaves, a fully clothed Christian choir and a retired Jewish pie thrower, is the meadow where the Rainbow Family is holding its 27th annual gathering to party and pray for peace.As many as 14,000 members of this family of old hippies and young converts, of blacks and whites, of American Indians and recent immigrants, of babies and grandparents have come from across the country to the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, just west of this two-stoplight town near the New Mexico border, for an annual gathering that lasts for about three weeks.
NEWS
By Mary Gail Hare, The Baltimore Sun | June 25, 2010
A half-hour into her first summer at camp, 7-year-old Destiny Cooper had lost her luggage but found her big sister. The little girls were beginning a week at Camp Connect, which reunites siblings who live in separate foster homes. While counselors searched for the suitcase, Desiree Cooper, at 9 a more seasoned camper, eased her sister's jitters and showed her their bunks. "This is your bed," she said. "I will make it for you." Desiree and Destiny are among the 60 children participating this week in the camp run by the Baltimore County Department of Social Services.
NEWS
By Elaine Tassy and Elaine Tassy,SUN STAFF | July 5, 1996
For the Brown family of East Baltimore, the Fourth of July reunion -- a giant cookout in Druid Hill Park -- was a jubilant affair."I been dancing, helping, enjoying myself, meeting other parts of my family I never met before," said Hershey Lawrence, 18, one of about 400 people who attended the reunion that was fragrant with the smell of grilling meats and rich with signs of family attachments.After beginning preparations in January, the family raised $2,000, corralled the 400 attendees from around the country and rented an 18-foot truck to transport boxes of watermelon, games of Twister and tons and tons of food.
NEWS
By Phyllis Flowers and Phyllis Lucas | August 5, 1991
There's no place like home, there's no place like home! This famous phrase has a permanent place in my heart. It's so dear to me that I have even considered having it tattooed across my forehead. Then everyone will understand just how happy I am to be home after riding 18-plus hours (one way) in a caravan with three kids, one husband and a puppy.I have gone far and beyond the call of duty as a parent, wifeand pet-sitter.I had no idea what I was in for when I agreed to attend my husband's family reunion in Montgomery, Ala. We traveled through six states, including Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and most of Alabama.
FEATURES
By Sandra Crockett and Sandra Crockett,SUN STAFF | August 26, 1997
Next to a huge, round bowl of pasta salad, steaming ears of corn are cooling on a long, wooden picnic table. There are platters of hamburgers and hot dogs and chicken and greens and a great big sheet cake, too. Sodas and fruit drinks in huge Thermoses stand ready to quench parched throats.If they had come just for the food, the hundred or so folks who have trekked to Druid Hill Park this cool August afternoon would say the trip was worth it. But it's not the tempting spread that has drawn members of the Brittingham, Sneed and Moye clans here.