Here is Gary Fechner who knew Greg from the Tatepaha "Windy Hill" neighborhood of SouthWest Faribault, with Dean Jim Zolatis of wonderful Greek heritage and stories, Laurie Larsen, Ray and Lisa.
Laurie is serving up the Peter Beck recipe of picnic Chocolate Cake, a Larsen family favorite in the Gipson Cloister area of the Cathedral that has become part of the educational museum for the Cathedral.
Here is one archival print that is one the wall of the Gipson Cloister Room and new entrance to the Cathedral. I have dated this at about 1898 as Bishop Whipple seated, married Evangeline Marrs Simpson in New York in Oct 1896, widow of Michael Simpson, a wealthy textile manufacturer. He was 74 and she was 38.
According to the writing of Anne Beiser Allen - Whipple had met Rose Cleveland who served as President Grover Cleveland's hostess at the White House until the president married in 1886. Rose Cleveland spent the winters in Maitland Florida with her dear friend, Evangline Simpson where Whipple baptized both women on March 29, 1895 at the Church of the Good Shepard, Maitland FL
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Good_Shepherd_(Maitland,_Florida)
Gipson room with Dean Zolatis. Laurie Larsen, Joe Larsen, Lucy Cosgrove and Lisa Larsen.
Redbud Tree as a backdrop to Ray and Lisa from Montana. Gary Fechner from Manitowoc Wisconsin, his brother in law, Fred Neubert in red shirt, from Faribault now living in Sauk Center MN, Tom W in back with hat, and Jason Fechner, Gary and Cheryl Neubert's son, who lives in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Ray, Lisa, Gary, Fred, Jason with Tom W in front with my hat. Ready to
sing show tunes to honor Greg Larsen! Thanks Gregory Searles Larsen for your sense of humor, good heart and many friendships for bringing this crew together to celebrate your life!
Speaking of education, I do like to write about the redbud, native to Ohio and areas further south in America, that now seems to thrive in our area. Perhaps a harbinger of the global changes in weather. Hurricane Sandy
Oct. 30, 07:54 a.m.: It’s estimated that over seven million people in the Northeast are without power.
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/28/hurricane-sandy-updates/#ixzz2An9JrPbz
The Bell Tower with a cedar wax wing, one of the zinkala oyate, bird nation in D/Lakota, that was a favorite of my mom, Peg Weaver, sitting in the crab apple in the Cathedral Garden.
Close up of Cedar Wax Wing in Crabapple.
Louis and Larose Carufel House Built in 1877
According to the historic website for Faribault Limestone Buildings
http://faribaulthpc.org/limestone-building-traditions/virtual-tour
"Stone mason Charles O’Brien crafted this rare and striking Gothic Revival home for feed mill owner Louis Carufel. . Following principles espoused by Andrew Jackson Downing, who promoted the style as ideal for gracious home life, the house was situated in a park-like setting on the edge of town. The home was later owned by other prominent Faribault businessmen, including W.E. Shaft, founder of the Shaft-Pierce Shoe Company, and his son, W. Stewart Shaft, who became president of the Nutting Caster Company.
According to Margaret Weaver autobiography, Paul and Margaret Weaver, purchased the home in 1943 from the Timothy Powers Family and sold it in 1976 to the Tom Gagnon Family.
Lisa and Ray in the front yard of the Carufel House, Built by the French miller in 1877 and stewarded by the Weaver family from 1943 - 1976. When we lived there, I would mow the lawn with a push Briggs and Stratton, and it would take 5 1/2 hours as it was 5 city lots in size. The Jazinski family who owned Al's Bar in the back built on the 6th lot I am told that was sold off sometime prior to 1943.
Gary and Jason Fechner, Lisa Larsen, Joe Larsen and Lucy Cosgrove,
Ray Flaherty and Laurie Larsen on the west side of the Carufel Build home, where Tom W was raised, 1947 - 1965. Called by the neighbors as "Weaver's Woods" especially during Halloween!
