What a wonderful surprise for a few children to catch a glimpse of Santa Claus making a visit to Leland Street on Christmas Eve.
Monday, December 24, 2007
Christmas Eve
What a wonderful surprise for a few children to catch a glimpse of Santa Claus making a visit to Leland Street on Christmas Eve.
Monday, December 17, 2007
'Tis the Season
‘TIS THE SEASON FOR ENJOYING FAMILY TRADITIONS AND THE FESTIVITIES OFFERED BY OTHERS.
All of Leland Street is grateful for the long standing holiday tradition of Ann Lee’s Holiday Caroling Party. Whether you brave the wind and weather and share your voice and enthusiasm in harmony with the carolers or whether you stand by your doorway and await the songs and good cheer, it is a lovely event and sets the tone for the holiday season.
The caroling is followed by wine, warm cider, homemade cookies and desserts all served with a charming centerpiece of the gingerbread house which Ann creates with finishing touches added by her grandchildren.
'TIS THE SEASON FOR GLITTER AND GLAMOUR AND FUN WITH FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS.
TIS THE SEASON FOR SPECIAL WASHINGTONIAN EVENTS.
As Marketing and Events Manager of Dumbarton House, Nicole Forrest invited Leland Street to attend the Diamond Jubilee of Dumbarton House. Leland neighbors Charles and Bonnie Duffy, Arthur, Marcy and Zak Forrest, Barbara, Anne-Marie and Peter Fendrick all attended the event.
Nicole and John Tenuta share a moment while Barbara Fendrick, Marcy and Arthur can be seen in the background enjoying the festivities.
Marcy and Arthur enjoy some time with friends, Matthew and Wendy Lesko. You may recognize Matthew as the author of several reference books on how to get "free" money from the U.S. Government. He is popularly known as "that Question Mark man.”The evening featured cocktails, hors d' oeuvres and live entertainment by the Radio King Orchestra.
TIS THE SEASON FOR SPECIAL ENTERTAINMENT.
Arthur, Marcy and Nicole spent a very full weekend with long time friend, Lainie Kazan. Lainie was in Washington to perform at the Washington Hebrew Congregation for their annual holiday concert. The event was a huge success and members of the congregation who know Lainie only as an actress were delightfully surprised by Lainie's concert performance and anecdotes from her long career.
'TIS THE SEASON TO SHARE IN THE CELEBRATION OF A VERY SPECIAL CHEVY CHASE RESIDENT.
Kathleen Willliams, sculptress and jewelry designer celebrated her 96th birthday on December 14th with a lovely collection of family , friends and neighbors. Belinda Wilborn of the Chevy Chase Town Office and Mary Anne Hoffman of the Chevy Chase Historical Society joined in the celebration.
*****Please send your photos of your holiday happenings to Marcy to post on the blog. Happy Holiday Season to all!
All of Leland Street is grateful for the long standing holiday tradition of Ann Lee’s Holiday Caroling Party. Whether you brave the wind and weather and share your voice and enthusiasm in harmony with the carolers or whether you stand by your doorway and await the songs and good cheer, it is a lovely event and sets the tone for the holiday season.
The caroling is followed by wine, warm cider, homemade cookies and desserts all served with a charming centerpiece of the gingerbread house which Ann creates with finishing touches added by her grandchildren.
'TIS THE SEASON FOR GLITTER AND GLAMOUR AND FUN WITH FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS.
TIS THE SEASON FOR SPECIAL WASHINGTONIAN EVENTS.
As Marketing and Events Manager of Dumbarton House, Nicole Forrest invited Leland Street to attend the Diamond Jubilee of Dumbarton House. Leland neighbors Charles and Bonnie Duffy, Arthur, Marcy and Zak Forrest, Barbara, Anne-Marie and Peter Fendrick all attended the event.
Nicole and John Tenuta share a moment while Barbara Fendrick, Marcy and Arthur can be seen in the background enjoying the festivities.
Marcy and Arthur enjoy some time with friends, Matthew and Wendy Lesko. You may recognize Matthew as the author of several reference books on how to get "free" money from the U.S. Government. He is popularly known as "that Question Mark man.”The evening featured cocktails, hors d' oeuvres and live entertainment by the Radio King Orchestra.
TIS THE SEASON FOR SPECIAL ENTERTAINMENT.
Arthur, Marcy and Nicole spent a very full weekend with long time friend, Lainie Kazan. Lainie was in Washington to perform at the Washington Hebrew Congregation for their annual holiday concert. The event was a huge success and members of the congregation who know Lainie only as an actress were delightfully surprised by Lainie's concert performance and anecdotes from her long career.
'TIS THE SEASON TO SHARE IN THE CELEBRATION OF A VERY SPECIAL CHEVY CHASE RESIDENT.
Kathleen Willliams, sculptress and jewelry designer celebrated her 96th birthday on December 14th with a lovely collection of family , friends and neighbors. Belinda Wilborn of the Chevy Chase Town Office and Mary Anne Hoffman of the Chevy Chase Historical Society joined in the celebration.
*****Please send your photos of your holiday happenings to Marcy to post on the blog. Happy Holiday Season to all!
Monday, December 3, 2007
Post Thanksgiving News
THE LELAND STREET SUNDAY NEWS
Editor: Larry Wolff
Sunday, December 2, 2007 Chevy Chase, Maryland
Patch
From Bob Patch: The Patches want to thank the Leland Streeters for the loving care given Sue and her family recently. The visits to the nursing home, the attendance at the memorial service, the many cards and other expressions of sympathy, the previous LSSN issue and the thoughts and prayers of everyone, are all appreciated so greatly. It's no wonder that Sue considered her years on Leland Street to be the happiest of her life, in the midst of the neighbors all of whom she loved so much.
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Will was home for Thanksgiving. What a happy time we had. On the Friday before Turkey Day, he was notified by the Superior Court that he was to be sworn in to the Boston and Massachusetts bars on Monday, Nov. 26! To make a long story short, traveling in any unplanned manner on Thanksgiving weekend is NOT possible. So Farrell and Will rented a car, left early Sunday morning and arrived at Farrell's brother's house in Dover, MA 11 hours later. We really did have fun, though Will and his Ma were exhausted at the end of it all.
The swearing-in was in the Great Hall of Fanuiel Hall. So historic and so terrific. Following the swearing in, Will signed the Roll of Attorneys of Massachusetts, the oldest Bar in the Western Hemisphere. Farrell had the honor of presenting Will with his license to practice law.
Farrell took the Acela home. What a great trip. The train is the best. It took only 6:30 hours. By comparison with the way to Boston, that's nothing. Very relaxing, lots of reading, snoozing and no delays on the run way.
Charles and Bonnie Duffy
Matthew played a lot of soccer over thanksgiving, and chose to eat meatballs instead of turkey. We also celebrated Charles' mom's 80th birthday, Matthew loved blowing out the candles and the cake too.
Here is Matthew with his cousin Lila Olson Duffy age 7 in the picuture - daughter of Charles' brother Roger in NYC. Matthew has 14 Duffy cousins, as you can imagine he gets lots of attention! He and Lila are very close, she's great with him.
Ann Lee
On the day before Thanksgiving, Brian, Stacey, the twins and I headed off to the North Carolina mountains to be with my sister, brother-in-law, their 4 kids, 4 grandchildren and 1 dog. Michael, Maura and my dog, Kali, were in the other car. The mountain house is just beautiful with a roaring fire always present in the living room aw well as on the deck. The best part, however, is the music--constant piano and singing!! A very happy time!
Two days before Thanksgiving I had some workers come and repair a third floor wall that was badly damaged due to a roof leak (which has since been repaired). They gave me a quote for the job. When I went up to check on them late in the day, I learned that they not only repaired the wall but pretty much replastered the entire room. The walls had had wallpaper painted over (which should be a criminal offense) and the seams looked pretty bad. Because I was away, they finally came back yesterday to complete the job and do the painting. They also fixed a spot in the hall which led them to fix the entire wall. When it was time to pay them, I was scared since they had done at least double the amount of work--but I had not agreed to it. Much to my surprise, they didn't ask for anything extra. I did tip them you'll be happy to know--but not so much. The room looks beautiful--and they cleaned up so well. The name is Fernando (301) 806-3540
Boland
Patrick arrived Tuesday evening from college, his first time back home since leaving in August. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with 20 family members. No major kitchen mishaps this year, thank goodness. The weekend was full, and ended with Sunday brunch with the married children back home after celebrating Thanksgiving with their in laws. Leanne returned to Louisiana Tuesday for a 4 day visit with her parents. They are building a new house and there are many details to handle. The Bolands are already looking forward to Christmas and enjoying grandson Will's reaction to the sights and sounds of the season.
Forrest
It has been a full house at 4136 recently. Arthur’s son, Kyle Cascioli, arrived with eleven hours of video for a real estate project. Zak worked with Kyle to edit it down to a twenty-two minute presentation. They were immersed in the project around the clock.
Also under the Forrest roof was Marcy’s sister, Sheila and husband, Jon. While here for some personal business, we all enjoyed family time and ventured into DC to see the Edward Hopper exhibitions at the National Gallery...recommended by Farrell Cosmas and Vicky Taplin. The most instantly recognizable of all the Hopper paintings is reproduced as the exciting entrance. A film on the life, inspirations and works of Hopper can be viewed halfway through the exhibition and is a very important part of the experience.
It is interesting to see new artists at work inspired by the exhibitions. That afternoon, this artist was at work.
Marcy and Leanne Boland enjoyed a lovely evening of dinner at the 600 Restaurant in the Watergate followed by The Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center. The evening made all the more memorable as it was dedicated to choreographer Maurice Bejart who had passed away just the night before this performance.
The Forrest family had two Thanksgiving dinners book end their holiday. Nicole was away for Thanksgiving week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, so Arthur, Marcy and Zak had a mini holiday supper on Thursday, but the real deal holiday was postponed until Sunday. Then the fun began in the kitchen with all hands were on deck. Everyone joined in chopping, mincing, mixing and stuffing the food preparation. "Thankfully” the dinner was terrific.
Dinner was followed by the Forrest’s own version of Game Time. We had a great competition of guessing from the American Film Institute's list of 100 top movie quotes ... competition led by Arthur. As any family with adult children knows, the real Thanksgiving is when you are all together not just a date on the calendar.
Rubashkin/Karasik
We just returned from a busy thanksgiving weekend in NJ and NY. David's sister hosted thanksgiving which was attended by family from far and wide, then we paid our annual post turkey day visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where we met up with Pamela’s closest friend and her family to see the Dutch Masters collection, and the new tapestry collection.
Both were wonderful, and the way the Dutch paintings were displayed, in order of acquisition, with significant acknowledgement of the donors was very interesting. We also saw the new Oceania exhibit of artifacts from the south pacific island countries. We highly recommend all the exhibits, the museum is a gem! We then visited Pamela’s family on Long Island, which was capped off with a family trip to the local movie theater to see Enchanted, which was a lovely warm family film (unless you are a teenage boy, who probably might not find it an enjoyable way to spend two hours, though the special effects were pretty neat).
Lucky for us, there was no traffic at 7:30 in the morning and we made it home in record time. Word to our neighbors, BCC is performing Beauty and the Beast next weekend, and the following one, and it promises to be another great show. Sophie and Hannah have done the costumes, and Hannah plays cello in the pit orchestra. Hope you can all find time to see the show and support our local school. It’s also getting to be recital time, and the kids are all busy practicing for the various performances that will happen during December. Wish it was warm enough to keep the windows open so everyone could here the music! Regards to all, and hope that everyone had a good Thanksgiving.
Trocchio
It was great having Jennie home for Thanksgiving. We watched lots of movies and ate much too much. Lelanders might be interested in learning that Julie's brother, Peter Knight, who works with Al Gore, and Peter's wife are going to Oslo with the former VP for the Nobel prize ceremony.
Vicente
The Vicente Family along with Marcy, Arthur and Nicole Forrest enjoyed an evening of Tango, Wine and Empanadas. In support of a special charity organization close to Vike Vicente's heart, The evening proceeds benefited The Ivy Inter-American Foundation to feed and educate children at risk in Argentina. Vike had prepared the video slide show presentation for the event. Vike and Wendy Vicente enjoyed the event with several members of their family, Vike's mother, Betty, brother Diego and fiancée Sarah.
Wolff/Daniel
After two and half weeks in Israel we were happy to come back to Leland Street although saddened by the loss of Sue Patch. We are impressed with the legacy that Sue Patch left to Leland Street – she created a warm and caring community and the tradition is being carried forward by all of us.
We had a nice Thanksgiving dinner with Larry’s cousin’s family and some friends, joined by Becky who was home for the holiday. Becky and Miriam waited for less than a hour to see the fabulous Hopper exhibit at the East Wing of the National Gallery the day after thanksgiving.
We enjoyed warm get togethers with old friends over the weekend. Larry left the Sunday after Thanksgiving for a memorable week-long consulting job looking at Haiti’s education system. It is an even poorer and more disorganized place than it was when he last visited the country in 1977 (but now with a little bit of renewed hope). Larry spent a day visiting schools in the provincial city of Jacmel and a morning visiting schools in Cite Soleil, the Port-au-Prince slum plagued for three years by gangsterism and murder which was ended by the UN troops only last March.
Editor: Larry Wolff
Sunday, December 2, 2007 Chevy Chase, Maryland
Patch
From Bob Patch: The Patches want to thank the Leland Streeters for the loving care given Sue and her family recently. The visits to the nursing home, the attendance at the memorial service, the many cards and other expressions of sympathy, the previous LSSN issue and the thoughts and prayers of everyone, are all appreciated so greatly. It's no wonder that Sue considered her years on Leland Street to be the happiest of her life, in the midst of the neighbors all of whom she loved so much.
.
Will was home for Thanksgiving. What a happy time we had. On the Friday before Turkey Day, he was notified by the Superior Court that he was to be sworn in to the Boston and Massachusetts bars on Monday, Nov. 26! To make a long story short, traveling in any unplanned manner on Thanksgiving weekend is NOT possible. So Farrell and Will rented a car, left early Sunday morning and arrived at Farrell's brother's house in Dover, MA 11 hours later. We really did have fun, though Will and his Ma were exhausted at the end of it all.
The swearing-in was in the Great Hall of Fanuiel Hall. So historic and so terrific. Following the swearing in, Will signed the Roll of Attorneys of Massachusetts, the oldest Bar in the Western Hemisphere. Farrell had the honor of presenting Will with his license to practice law.
Farrell took the Acela home. What a great trip. The train is the best. It took only 6:30 hours. By comparison with the way to Boston, that's nothing. Very relaxing, lots of reading, snoozing and no delays on the run way.
Charles and Bonnie Duffy
Matthew played a lot of soccer over thanksgiving, and chose to eat meatballs instead of turkey. We also celebrated Charles' mom's 80th birthday, Matthew loved blowing out the candles and the cake too.
Here is Matthew with his cousin Lila Olson Duffy age 7 in the picuture - daughter of Charles' brother Roger in NYC. Matthew has 14 Duffy cousins, as you can imagine he gets lots of attention! He and Lila are very close, she's great with him.
Ann Lee
On the day before Thanksgiving, Brian, Stacey, the twins and I headed off to the North Carolina mountains to be with my sister, brother-in-law, their 4 kids, 4 grandchildren and 1 dog. Michael, Maura and my dog, Kali, were in the other car. The mountain house is just beautiful with a roaring fire always present in the living room aw well as on the deck. The best part, however, is the music--constant piano and singing!! A very happy time!
Two days before Thanksgiving I had some workers come and repair a third floor wall that was badly damaged due to a roof leak (which has since been repaired). They gave me a quote for the job. When I went up to check on them late in the day, I learned that they not only repaired the wall but pretty much replastered the entire room. The walls had had wallpaper painted over (which should be a criminal offense) and the seams looked pretty bad. Because I was away, they finally came back yesterday to complete the job and do the painting. They also fixed a spot in the hall which led them to fix the entire wall. When it was time to pay them, I was scared since they had done at least double the amount of work--but I had not agreed to it. Much to my surprise, they didn't ask for anything extra. I did tip them you'll be happy to know--but not so much. The room looks beautiful--and they cleaned up so well. The name is Fernando (301) 806-3540
Boland
Patrick arrived Tuesday evening from college, his first time back home since leaving in August. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with 20 family members. No major kitchen mishaps this year, thank goodness. The weekend was full, and ended with Sunday brunch with the married children back home after celebrating Thanksgiving with their in laws. Leanne returned to Louisiana Tuesday for a 4 day visit with her parents. They are building a new house and there are many details to handle. The Bolands are already looking forward to Christmas and enjoying grandson Will's reaction to the sights and sounds of the season.
Forrest
It has been a full house at 4136 recently. Arthur’s son, Kyle Cascioli, arrived with eleven hours of video for a real estate project. Zak worked with Kyle to edit it down to a twenty-two minute presentation. They were immersed in the project around the clock.
Also under the Forrest roof was Marcy’s sister, Sheila and husband, Jon. While here for some personal business, we all enjoyed family time and ventured into DC to see the Edward Hopper exhibitions at the National Gallery...recommended by Farrell Cosmas and Vicky Taplin. The most instantly recognizable of all the Hopper paintings is reproduced as the exciting entrance. A film on the life, inspirations and works of Hopper can be viewed halfway through the exhibition and is a very important part of the experience.
It is interesting to see new artists at work inspired by the exhibitions. That afternoon, this artist was at work.
Marcy and Leanne Boland enjoyed a lovely evening of dinner at the 600 Restaurant in the Watergate followed by The Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center. The evening made all the more memorable as it was dedicated to choreographer Maurice Bejart who had passed away just the night before this performance.
The Forrest family had two Thanksgiving dinners book end their holiday. Nicole was away for Thanksgiving week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, so Arthur, Marcy and Zak had a mini holiday supper on Thursday, but the real deal holiday was postponed until Sunday. Then the fun began in the kitchen with all hands were on deck. Everyone joined in chopping, mincing, mixing and stuffing the food preparation. "Thankfully” the dinner was terrific.
Dinner was followed by the Forrest’s own version of Game Time. We had a great competition of guessing from the American Film Institute's list of 100 top movie quotes ... competition led by Arthur. As any family with adult children knows, the real Thanksgiving is when you are all together not just a date on the calendar.
Rubashkin/Karasik
We just returned from a busy thanksgiving weekend in NJ and NY. David's sister hosted thanksgiving which was attended by family from far and wide, then we paid our annual post turkey day visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where we met up with Pamela’s closest friend and her family to see the Dutch Masters collection, and the new tapestry collection.
Both were wonderful, and the way the Dutch paintings were displayed, in order of acquisition, with significant acknowledgement of the donors was very interesting. We also saw the new Oceania exhibit of artifacts from the south pacific island countries. We highly recommend all the exhibits, the museum is a gem! We then visited Pamela’s family on Long Island, which was capped off with a family trip to the local movie theater to see Enchanted, which was a lovely warm family film (unless you are a teenage boy, who probably might not find it an enjoyable way to spend two hours, though the special effects were pretty neat).
Lucky for us, there was no traffic at 7:30 in the morning and we made it home in record time. Word to our neighbors, BCC is performing Beauty and the Beast next weekend, and the following one, and it promises to be another great show. Sophie and Hannah have done the costumes, and Hannah plays cello in the pit orchestra. Hope you can all find time to see the show and support our local school. It’s also getting to be recital time, and the kids are all busy practicing for the various performances that will happen during December. Wish it was warm enough to keep the windows open so everyone could here the music! Regards to all, and hope that everyone had a good Thanksgiving.
Trocchio
It was great having Jennie home for Thanksgiving. We watched lots of movies and ate much too much. Lelanders might be interested in learning that Julie's brother, Peter Knight, who works with Al Gore, and Peter's wife are going to Oslo with the former VP for the Nobel prize ceremony.
Vicente
The Vicente Family along with Marcy, Arthur and Nicole Forrest enjoyed an evening of Tango, Wine and Empanadas. In support of a special charity organization close to Vike Vicente's heart, The evening proceeds benefited The Ivy Inter-American Foundation to feed and educate children at risk in Argentina. Vike had prepared the video slide show presentation for the event. Vike and Wendy Vicente enjoyed the event with several members of their family, Vike's mother, Betty, brother Diego and fiancée Sarah.
Wolff/Daniel
After two and half weeks in Israel we were happy to come back to Leland Street although saddened by the loss of Sue Patch. We are impressed with the legacy that Sue Patch left to Leland Street – she created a warm and caring community and the tradition is being carried forward by all of us.
We had a nice Thanksgiving dinner with Larry’s cousin’s family and some friends, joined by Becky who was home for the holiday. Becky and Miriam waited for less than a hour to see the fabulous Hopper exhibit at the East Wing of the National Gallery the day after thanksgiving.
We enjoyed warm get togethers with old friends over the weekend. Larry left the Sunday after Thanksgiving for a memorable week-long consulting job looking at Haiti’s education system. It is an even poorer and more disorganized place than it was when he last visited the country in 1977 (but now with a little bit of renewed hope). Larry spent a day visiting schools in the provincial city of Jacmel and a morning visiting schools in Cite Soleil, the Port-au-Prince slum plagued for three years by gangsterism and murder which was ended by the UN troops only last March.
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