Photos
Here you'll find some of my favorite photos.
Click on thumbnail to see the individual image full size,
Click on the link to see all photos.
Note: Most of the pictures are on Shutterfly
though some are on FaceBook.
NOTE: There has been another change in Shutterfly, the service I've been using to store and share my photos since 2003. Now, it seems that unless you are a member, you can't use the Slideshow feature and are limited to a relatively small image, nor can you download any of the pictures you'd like to keep.
You CAN increase the image size by hitting the Control key and then the + key as many times as you wish until you're satisfied with the size. I suggest you count the number of times you do this so you can return everything back to "normal" afterwards.
I've been in contact with the company and they said you would have to join the site. This is free, and if you double-click on any image, the slideshow begins with whatever picture you clicked on, however, any captions do not show.
I'm working on it and, if necessary, I'm prepared to move to another provider. [July 28, 2025]
The most recent albums are at the top.
To see the thumbnail photo full-sized, click on it.
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Shortly after I retired in 2003 I started volunteering at Non-Profit Technology Resources (NTR). This was a great experience for me as for the first time I got a chance to get my hands dirty - really just VERY dusty!
After a while I discovered that NTR was not only training people to fix computers & selling them but they were GIVING them away to school students. A little light went off, "Ah HA! Edison!" I got in touch with my colleague who still taught at that time in the Bilingual program & we got the ball rolling so that we eventually got over 200 Edison/Fareira students their own computer.
Nilza's husband had a connection with Channel 6 in Philly & eventually, they came to visit on a day a group of Edison/Fareira students came to learn about their computers before they took them home.
I recently got copies of the original TV presentation and here are two versions of it - originally on video tape.
One is a M4V file (59 megs), the other a MOV file (231 megs) NOTE: The MOV version starts off with some "static" but don't worry - it's NOT your computer.
Many thanks to Lou Lozada for moving this from video tape.
This
July we had the opportunity to travel to Switzerland and explore that amazing
country. If you enjoy beautiful vistas, Switzerland has it all for you. If, like
me, you LOVE trains and other forms of transportation, Switzerland has it
in spades: for instance, they are virtually overrun with trolleybuses or what
we, in Philly, call "trackless trolleys." There they come in all
varieties: single, double and triple articulated segments. Beyond that, they use
3 different gauges on rail lines. In fact, they even have one that
actually changes the gauge of the cars, and don't forget the numerous cog
railway lines and gondolas suspended by cables used to "climb" some mountains.
As you might guess, we had a great time on this tour and we'd love to share our
pictures with you.
A
surprise trip to the Great Lakes.
It was a surprise in that while we were on the cruise to Scotland, we received an offer that was impossible to refuse and in October we were off on a "great" tour of the lakes from Toronto to Chicago with some unexpected stops in Cincinnati, Detroit and Waukegan.
However, the greatest part of the trip was the totally unexpected view of the Aurora Borealis - the Northern Lights that we were able to see in the middle of a lake and that's why I selected on of these photos as my thumbnail for this album.
Share this trip with us on Shutterfly.
The annual Edison/Fareira Retirees Luncheon was held again and
here are some of the pics of the event.
The pictures are on FaceBook
but you don't have to be a member.
In
June we went on a Tauck Tour cruise of Scotland. The weather was hardly what we'd consider
"summery," but the sights were beautiful and the cruise part
especially delightful.
One of the most exciting times we had was our closing dinner on Queen Elizabeth's former Royal Yacht, Britannia.
Take a look at our pics so that you can share our experience. To see the videos of the brief time of "roiling seas," go to Facebook - you don't have to be a member. If a "sign in" box appears, just click on the X and you'll be able to play the videos.
Those of you who are Outlander followers
will find the pics of the "standing stones" particularly interesting -
but no, we didn't have any time travel experiences.
On
November 9, 2023, we had another E/F Retiree Luncheon. Here
are some pics of the event on Facebook, though you don't have to be a member.
On
November 9, 2022, after a 3 year hiatus because of Covid-19, we restarted our
Edison/Fariera High School Retirees Luncheon.
See some of the pictures of the bunch on Facebook.
After
three tries and failures due to to Covid, we finally made it to our cruise on
the Douro River in Portugal via Tauck. Share
our pictures.
Our
trip up the Colombia River from Portland, Or. to the mouth of the Snake River
& Beyond via American Cruses.
Share our great trip.
My
brother hit the GIGANTIC "8 0" so we held a little party for him.
Here's some of the shots.
Thanks to Esther & Joanne for their pics.
This is located on FaceBook but you can see them even if you're not "on" it.
I finally got a chance to shoot fireworks with my new camera.
These were a part of Whitpain Community Festival, Saturday, September 29, 2018.
These aren't perfect but better than my previous efforts.
These are posted on FaceBook but you don't have to be a member.
Here
are our pictures from our trip to Nova
Scotia, via Tauck, August, 2018.
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Barnett & Helene Goldstein |
Sid, Al & Sam Stoloff |
I scanned in old photos of both the Goldstein and the Stoloff Families.
Scandinavia! What a fantastic trip!
We visited the three nations in August, 2017, via Tauck.
I took so many pictures, I had to divide them by country.
Take some time to share our trip.
Another
year, another E/F Retiree
Luncheon.
This year it was held on November 8, 2017 at the Golden Corral in Bensalem, PA.
Here I am with Jay Sadington, E/F baker of renown & proof that I was actually there.
Barcelona
Album Here are the pictures from our second wonderful trip to Barcelona, Spain.
As most of our pictures, this is on Shutterfly.
I've
posted our pictures from our great October, 2016 Italy trip. Because there are
so many pictures I decided to break them in - still large - chunks based on
where we were as we moved from Milan to Venice, via Tauck.
These albums are on Shutterfly.
Pictures
of our June/July, 2016 intensive visit to London,
via The World Affairs Council.
It was certainly intensive! See what made it so in this album on Shutterfly.
Pictures
of the Edison/Fareira HS Retirement Dinner, June 22, 2016. These are on Facebook but you don't
have to be a member.
If asked to log in, click "Not now."
BTW: Neither of these guys are retiring - they've years to go!
Finally
we went through our Iceland trip, via Tauck. The photos are now on Shutterfly & the videos
are on FaceBook.
The trip was August, 2015
The pictures from our Basel to Amsterdam riverboat
cruise - April, 2015, via Tauck.
Photos from the
2014
Edison/Fareira High School Retiree Luncheon.
Pictures are on FaceBook but you don't have to be a member to see them.
The dedication of the historical marker,
November 8th, at the site of the old Edison High
School in recognition to the 64 former Edison students that died in the Vietnam
War.
Pictures are on FaceBook but you don't have to be a member to see them.
We made a trip to
Milford, PA for the Black Bear Film
Festival & had the bonus of seeing the vibrant fall colors.
This album is on Shutterfly.
Our
friend, Nilza, had a 'Destination Birthday.' It was quite a fun experience for
all.
See the pictures on Shutterfly.
Posted
the album for
our Spring, 2014 Danube riverboat cruise, via Tauck, on Shutterfly.
Posted
pictures of the 2013 campaign for Wisshickon School Board on Shutterfly.
Edison/Fareira
High School Retirement Luncheon, November 13, 2013.
See the pictures on FaceBook. You don't have to be a member.
South West US - New Mexico
See our pictures of a beautiful trip to the real American
Desert, via Tauck.
Click on the panorama picture on the left - be sure to widen the screen to FULL!
See all the photos on Shutterfly
Hyde
Park, NY
A pleasant trip to FDR's home as well as one of the Vanderbilt 'cottages' - what anyone else would call a mansion.
See them on Shutterfly
South
Africa
Our fantastic trip in January, 2013, via The World Affairs Council, on Shutterfly
1. Capetown, Robbin Island, Cape of Good Hope
3. Johannesburg, Soweto, Kliptown, Revos Rail to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Edison/Fareira High School Retirement Luncheon, November 14, 2012.
See the pictures on FaceBook. You don't have to be a member.
In
September, 2012, we went to France & toured Versailles, Paris, Brittany
& Normandy, via Tauck. See
our pictures on ShutterFly.
Share
our pictures of our week in Cape Cod, MA, 2012.
This is a Shutterfly site.
Want
to share our fantastic trip to Costa Rica, Panama & the Panama Canal from
January, 2012? Via Tauck.
See the pictures on Shutterfly's
site.
See
out visit in the Fall of 2011 to two Frank Lloyd Wright designed homes near Bear Run, PA.
See the pictures on Shutterfly's
site.
I
hit the big 65 and to celebrate in May of 2011 I had a great cake - designed by former
students.
You can see their work on the Web or on FaceBook.
Share these pictures with me. These pictures are on the Shutterfly site.
Pictures
of our Tauck riverboat cruise from Amsterdam to Brussels/Bruges, April, 2011
These photos are on Shutterfly.
Pictures
our great trip to via The World Affairs Council to Israel & Jordan, February, 2011.
These albums are on the Shutterfly site - all 600 of them in 4 albums. Enjoy!
Pictures
from the November 16, 2010 Edison/Fareira High School Annual Retiree Luncheon.
This album is on FaceBook but you don't have to be a member to see them.
Here
are some shots I took while I was taking part, along with 10's of thousands of
others, in the One Nation March on Washington, DC, October 2, 2010. These
are on FaceBook but you don't have to be a member to see them.
Here are some of the shots from our
July, 2010 trip to Cancun, Mexico. We
visited Chichen Itza and the Xplor Park.
There are 85 photos on FaceBook but you don't have to join to see them.
Go to the Shutterfly
site if you want to see the full 122 shots.
Note: The pics of Xplore are oddly arranged as the dates of the pics
varied by the camera in the tunnels.
2009
Here
are our pictures
from the great trip to Punta Cana, D. R. in 2009
Here are the best shots of our January, 2009 trip to
Antarctica via The World Affairs Council.
Links take you to Shutterfly Gallery.
Note: If you look at nothing else, you MUST see the whales!
The
Edison/Fareira
All Year
Reunion
November 14, 2009.
The photos are on FaceBook but you don't have to join to see them.
Shots of student
visits
to our home - 1994-2002.
The photos are on FaceBook but you don't have to join to see them.
Our
trip to London in July, 2007
Our
trip to Croatia & Slovenia: Dubrovnik to Ljubljana in July, 2007,via Tauck
On
our second cruise, via Tauck, we took an amazing trip from Istanbul, Turkey to Athens,
Greece with stops along the East Coast of Turkey and Greek islands in the Aegean
Sea.
Share this voyage with us!
Eastern
Europe: We "did" Poland: Warsaw, Czestachowa, Krakow,
Auschwitz/Birkenau & the Weiliczka Salt Mines.
Slovakia
Hungary: Budapest
Austria: Vienna
Czech Republic: Prague
Share this wonderful experience with us. These pictures are on Shutterfly.
I've discovered that there were some of our trips that weren't shared here, so, rather late in the day, I'm correcting that defficit.
In
August, we visited Barcelona for the first time. The city is astounding, starting
with the The Sagrada Familia and including the other great works by Gaudi in the
city.
Everywhere you look there are interesting buildings, people and places.
Share our pictures on Shutterfly.
In
August we took one of our most fantastic trips: Alaska. The state is enormous
so we just had to take a bite of it: we went from Juno to Glacier Bay and many
small towns and cities along the way. Most of the trip was by small ship but one
of the highlights was the White River Rail Road excursion.
See it all.
We've
been to Williamsburg, Va twice. These are the pictures from our second trip in
the summer of 2003.
The biggest difference we noticed was the shift to make a point that since this city existed in Colonial times and especially in Virginia, there was finally an effort to explain the part Blacks played in the city. There were many "interpreters" who did an excellent job of explaining what had, until then, been a hidden part of the city's history.
See our pictures.
Shots
of me (and a few others) from the yearbooks of Kensington, Lamberton & Edison/Fareira High
Schools - and some even older.
The laughter will please be kept to a minimum!
The photos are on FaceBook but you don't have to join to see them.
I received this Christmas card. I know I'm just one of a million who is on the list but it's neat, never the less. Looks like I'll have to send him one next year!
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