This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: johnacker1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.alameda/3548.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you for your quick and interesting reply. I have no clue who John Acker is. Genealogy is a constant puzzle at which I am new. I do have Curtis's two sons, Edgar and Charles S., and his daughter Alice. I can't find much beyond that. I did have Charles Frank's son Clive, but you clipping added to it. Charles Frank appears at times as Charles F., as Frank C., and simply as Charles or Frank. Thank you again. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: metaphor Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.alameda/3548.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'm not having any luck finding anything definitive regarding Charles B. ACKER, but did find an Oakland Trib item about Curtis ACKER and the TESLA stage. Another news item mentions John ACKER in relation to both the stage and a barn fire which in a separate news item mentions Curtis ACKER, so apparently the same family. Do you know whether Charles & Saxton had a brother/half-brother named Frank? A 1906 news item (Oakland Trib) mentions the death of his son Clive, age 5. I'm attaching the news items I've found thus far. When you wrote, "can find no information on Charles' grandfather or later California Ackers" did you mean that you don't have Curtis's family in 20th century censuses? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Hi I dont know if any of these ACKER"S are yours, theres are Warrens, and Charles's and man, many other names. There are alot in California at the following links some in Livermore and other areas, not just CA. I hope you can find something here. http://www.l-ags.org/obits/A_to_C.html http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSln=Acker&GSst=6&; http://www.l-ags.org/census1880/census1880.09.html Cris Atwater California

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: johnacker1 Surnames: Acker Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.alameda/3548/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am attempting to find the father and mother of Charles Bingley Acker. He was the eldest brother of my grandfather Saxton Seth Acker. I believe their father was Warren J. Acker, but do not have proof. Their mother's name might be Maria Farnsworth, born in Vermont. Charles was born about 1834 in New York. The family moved to Fredonia, Calhoun, MI around 1835. Charles is probably listed on the 1860 Washington, Alameda U.S. Census. He married Ellen Samantha Beck, and their sons were Charles Frank and Curtis Hower. I have striking photographs of the family and their ranch at Livermore, but can find no information on Charles' grandfather or later California Ackers. Family history says that they had one son who froze to death in a blizzard attempting to get Christmas presents for his little daughter. I believe this may be fact. Any information will be greatly appreciated. JS Acker Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: djg769 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.alameda/3492.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Ill warn you, most of the books that you find in the online search are not at the Oakland location. Dont know why. but your better to wait until you get there and search their specific data base. I know they have the marriage, birth and death cds, broken down by the year. They have tons of old phone books also. some things you have to order and they take awhile but Im not sure if that will show up on your search online. trust me, there is tons to do there, you wont be boarded. good luck Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: trubble Surnames: Mansfield, Brown Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.alameda/3547/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am looking for an obit for my great grandmother Grace Gertrude (Brown) Mansfield. She passed away Nov 8, 1971 in Oakland California. Her Funeral and burial were in Grand Rapids MN on Nov 13, 1971. She married William Simpson Mansfied. Any help will great appreiceated. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: EliseAdams15 Surnames: Adams, Snyder, Bennison, Chasteen, Johnson, Dwyer Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.alameda/3545.2.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Robert died in Modesto on 23 April 1973. I do have Robert's obituary. The obit reads as follows "Robert Lee Adams, 75, of Modesto and formerly of Sonora died yesterday in a local convalescent home. A native of Missouri, he retired from the lumbering industry in the Sonora area and moved to Morgan Hill where he owned and operated a service station before moving to Modesto a year ago. Surivivors are duaghters Vera Bennison of Gustine, Dorothy Snyder and Helen Johnson, both of Modesto; a sister, Jean Dwyer, of Michigan; a brother, Bert Chasteen, of California, nine grandchildren, and 17 great grand-children. Private burial at the Acacia Memorial Park, Modesto" The obit gives a few more clues to work with. :) Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mt_view2002 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.alameda/3545.2.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Elise When and where did Robert die? George Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: EliseAdams15 Surnames: Adams Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.alameda/3545.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Well, George, this is the break though my cousin & I have been waiting for. William was Robert's father, also my great grand father. We have known virtually nothing avbout Robert or William until the last few weeks (Days really!) So I thank you immensely! I am trying to find a death date/obit for William, and where he may be buried. I was finally able to get one for Robert just yesterday. Thanks so much for you help!! It is a true blessing! Elise in MN Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Bill You might be interested in this. George From the Contrra Costa Times July 20, 2007 Old AM station to become radio museum Venerable building to house displays, recording and transcription facilities, library By Pat Craig STAFF WRITER Contra Costa Times Article Launched:07/20/2007 03:13:50 AM PDT The narrow road leads through a scrawny gate, across faded pavement to an Art Deco island in the middle of a bayshore marsh. It might be the most familiar place you've never been to before. You've probably seen the old KRE radio station studios on Ashby Avenue a zillion times from the Eastshore Freeway. The old blue-trimmed white building and tall transmission tower have been on the same spot, straddling the Emeryville/Berkeley line, for 70 years. On Saturday, you'll have a chance to see what the place looks like on the inside and learn about how some of the magic of radio in its heyday -- the sounds that soothed you through long, lonely nights, or kept you company on a long drive down a long, boring road -- was created. Starting at 10 a.m., the former KRE studio, now home for the California Historical Radio Society, will open to the public for a celebration of the transmitter's 70th birthday. The event will include live old-time radio performances, an auction of vintage electronic equipment and a sneak peek at the society's planned radio museum, which will eventually be housed in the old building. The KRE AM station can trace its roots back to 1922, when a guy in a Berkeley radio shop built a small transmitter and set it up in the Claremont Hotel. The KRE call letters disappeared in the '70s, but AM broadcasts continue on its 1400 spot on the AM dial. The transmitter is still used by some area radio stations. And the building stands as a tribute to the golden age of radio. "It'll look a lot better than this on the 21st," says Steve Kushman, president of the California Historical Radio Society, meandering through a nightmarish Guglielmo Marconi maze of speakers, radios, transmitters and other trappings of a century's worth of broadcasting accouterments that will either be on display or up for sale at Saturday's event. The fundraiser and celebration is kind of a public version of the radio society's core -- a group of radio fans, mostly guys in the electronics industry, forming a "sort of parking-lot organization," meeting to swap vintage equipment and talk tubes and resistors in a world of digital and silicon. Yes, it's a link to the past, and they're darn proud of it, as a matter of fact. "You know, there are a lot of people who don't realize their cell phones are two-way radios," says Kushman. "We have figured there are now almost five generations of Americans who have no idea what a vacuum tube is, or who Marconi, Lee DeForest and Doc Herrold are." He speaks in front of a poster-size photograph of Dr. Charles David Herrold, who broadcast from KQW in San Jose, beginning in 1909, becoming the first person to present regular radio broadcasts. He might have been better remembered if he'd been more of a businessman. "The reason he doesn't get credit for the first regular broadcast is because he didn't sell commercials," says Kushman. "That's why KDKA (in Pittsburgh) gets the credit as the first commercial station. One of our goals is to bring kids and young people in here to educate them on the rich history of radio and the role of the Bay Area, because radio touched people's lives in so many different ways." Already, the society conducts regular classes for those interested in learning the now-archaic arts of constructing tube-and-wire equipment and other early electronics knowledge. The museum also plans to have regular displays, some of which will be installed for Saturday's open house; a gift shop in which various items, including vintage electronic equipment restored by society members, will be sold; and recording and transcription facilities where people can put old recordings of any type on a CD. The museum, for which there is no target opening date yet, will also house a library on radio, the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame, ham radio broadcast stations and an electronics shop. Long-range plans call for buying air time Saturday nights for various live broadcasts on the transmitter just outside. "We want to have DJs on the air playing 78-rpm jazz records and members of the (Bay Area Broadcast Legends) doing live radio plays all on Saturday nights on AM radio 1400," says Kushman. "People have said we could do it as web casts or podcasts, but we want to do it on the radio, just the way it used to be, before the AM band goes away and everything becomes digital." Certainly, there's a nostalgia element to all of this, but to those who were involved in Bay Area broadcasting, the area has a rich and interesting history that deserves preserving and remembering. These include the dozens of members of Bay Area Broadcast Legends, a group of former and current broadcasters, many of whom re-enact vintage radio programs, and people like David Jackson, who founded the Bay Area Radio Museum, an Internet site (www.bayarearadio.org) with memorabilia including histories, photos and airchecks from broadcasting in the Bay Area. There is close cooperation, and crossover, between the radio society, the Broadcast Legends and the museum backers. Radio personality Carter B. Smith, who will be master of ceremonies Saturday, is a member of the Legends and has some of his broadcasting work in the museum collection. He also worked at KRE in the late '50s and early '60s, and unintentionally became a station legend one night in 1960. "Carter had been at a function in Berkeley where he had too much libation," said Kushman, pausing in the studio kitchen and staring at an air duct on the ceiling. "He thought he would come in and sleep on the general manager's couch, but first he came back here to the kitchen for coffee, and took his name badge off here and stuck it up there. To this day, you can read his name on it." Kushman points at the now-faded name tag, which does, indeed, contain Smith's name. Perhaps the most famous occupant of the studio was the legendary disk jockey Wolfman Jack, who was sitting at the announcer's desk in 1972 for the filming of "American Graffiti." The scene was shot in the studio, and much of the equipment seen in the movie remains in the booth. "George Lucas wanted something to replicate a '50s radio studio," says Kushman, "and, instead of building a set, he found this." The whole studio building, which the society eventually hopes to buy, was filled with historical surprises. when the society took over and began tearing out walls that had been used to build spaces for employees, they found the original announcer's booth, intact, right down to the two panes of glass that make up the walls. In fact, when the group walked in for the first time, members were surprised by the building. "It was like a neutron bomb had hit it," Kushman said. "It was like all the people had just disappeared seven or eight years before. There were coffee cups on the desks, things on the wall, newspapers. Nothing had been touched for years. We probably recycled six tons of paper." Pat Craig is the Times theater critic. Reach him at 925-945-4736 or pcraig@cctimes.com. Preview WHAT: California Historical Radio Society's "Live! at KRE 2007," a benefit for the society and celebration of the station's transmitter's 70 years on the air WHERE: 601 Ashby Ave. (access is from Shellmound Avenue), Berkeley WHEN: Saturday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. HOW MUCH: $5 for tours, entertainment and vintage radio flea market, $5 for auction bidders CONTACT: 415-821-9800 (CHRS hotline), http://www.californiahistoricalradio.com --------------------------------- Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mt_view2002 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.alameda/3545.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Elise He lived at 9630 Cherry, and owned a tire shop which was at 5014 E 14th. I then found a Robert L. Adams, with a a wife Jennie, who own the shop. The first time I found William, was was in the 1926 Oakland Directory, and last time 1935. I will get more details for you on them, for they changed jobs. George Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: labonzzz Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.alameda/3546.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: It's possible. I did post there also. I found The parents, William & Nancy sons, George, Wilfred and Thomas in Santa Cruz, Co. but can't find the others. Thanks, Bonnie Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mt_view2002 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.alameda/3546.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Were they in Alameda County, if not you might want to post to this list/ http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.santacruz/mb.ashx George Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: labonzzz Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.alameda/3546/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'm looking for any information of Wilfred/Wilford/ Milford Roberts b. 1849 after the 1900 Census in Pajaro, Santa Cruz Co., CA. He show he was married to Viadelia. Would like to know where he was buried and where his other brothers, Hendley,b.1835, William b.1839, and John b.1839, lived. He also had sisters, Catherine b.1842, Sarah b. 1934, and Mary b. 1830. I have been able to find my GG Grandfather and one brother George but none of the other siblings. Father was William M. Roberts and Nancy Miller Roberts who were buried in Watsonville. Thanks for any help! Bonnie Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: EliseAdams15 Surnames: Adams Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.alameda/3545.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have attached the image for the William Adams I am looking for. He lived in the city of Oakland, but it appears that the enumerator scratched something out on the left margin that would have given me better indication of his exact address. Any help would be hugely appreciated. I am in Minnesota, so I am not familiar with the area like I wish I were. Elise, MN Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mt_view2002 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.alameda/3545.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Elise What address, is Mt. Adams living at in 1930? George Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CadiListMom Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.alameda/3545.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I looked at the Alameda 1933 phone book: William Adams, r 1415 Grand ph AL 4659M Wm. Adams r. 927 E. 19th ph ME 2380 There is a Wm. H and Mrs. Wm. Hastie Adams and that is it for the 1933 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: EliseAdams15 Surnames: Adams Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.alameda/3545/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hope someone can help. I am trying to find a William W. Adams in City Directories, around the year of 1930. He does appear on the 1930 census in Oakland, born in about 1869, occupation Salesman for Tire Company. He was born in Missouri. I am trying to determine if this gentleman was in Oakland prior to 1930, or what became of him after 1930. I have been unable to find him on the CA Death Index, so am not sure when he may have passed away. Hope someone may have additional info. Thanks for any help. Elise, MN Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Thanks for that Kind regards Pat >From: mt view <mt_view2002@yahoo.com> >Reply-To: caalamed@rootsweb.com >To: norcal@rootsweb.com, caalamed-l@rootsweb.com, casolano-l@rootsweb.com >Subject: [CAALAMED] Cazadero Performing Arts Camp is 50 years old >Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:23:58 -0700 (PDT) > > >From the Contra Costa Times (July 15, 2007): > > Harmony among the redwoods By Jackie Burrell CONTRA COSTA >TIMES >Contra Costa Times > Article Launched:07/15/2007 03:03:23 AM PDT LONG BEFORE the >50-year-old camp comes into sight, music wafts through the redwoods and >across Austin Creek -- the strains of a brass quartet, string trios and >jazz ensembles meld into a single, indescribable melody that surges and >ebbs on the breeze. "It's almost like music overtakes you amongst the >magnificent trees," says Cazadero Performing Arts Camp founder Bob Lutt. >"You hear music all through the grove." Some 100,000 young musicians have >crossed Cazadero's signature suspension bridge over the years. They gazed >down at the babbling stream, traipsed their way across the swaying bridge >and burst into excited laughter at the prospect of another summer session >at Caz, sleeping under the stars and making music under the towering >old-growth redwoods. On this particular morning, a string group rehearses >in "Cello Grove." Trumpets and saxes hone their improvisation skills at the >lodge, while the orchestra works on > Rimsky-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnol" in the bandshell under a soaring, >sail-like awning. Jazz, the camp dog, bounds across the campgrounds, and >the smell of Sloppy Joes wafts from the cafeteria, where the kitchen crew >-- all musicians too -- are whipping up lunch. And young musicians, such >as Danville sixth-grader and repeat camper Kelii Kahawaii, revel in the >whole experience. "I thought I was going to have lots of fun, definitely, >but it was thrilling," he says. "Me and (my friend) Nick really liked it, >of course, because how couldn't you? We told everyone at school." Tepees >and redwoods It was 1955 when Lutt, Berkeley High's just-hired band >director, and his young wife, Beth, first discovered the rustic encampment >near Guerneville. The camp had housed the infamous "Bohemian Grove" in the >late 19th century, but when the Lutts came upon Caz, it was a 30-year-old >summer camp owned by the city of Berkeley. "We grew up on the plains of >Nebraska," says Bob. "And > here were these magnificent trees." Inspired, Lutt asked the city if he >could create a two-week music camp for his Berkeley High teens -- and he >invited members of the San Francisco Symphony, who didn't have a summer >season back then, to join them that first summer of 1957. They brought >their families and taught music under the redwoods. It was, he says, "a >perfect mix." The blend included the Lutts' growing family. Beth >remembers bathing her young children in a camp washtub, and soothing fussy >babies in the misty early morning hours, when fog draped the 1,500-year-old >trees in "a forest primeval feeling." The next year, Berkeley High's >orchestra reserved a week, too. Then the choir came. "In six years, we >took over the entire summer," says Bob. "It was very, very rustic -- >tepees. We built new frame tents, a dormitory, a bandshell. It was just >sort of a love affair." Children slept under the stars, cavorted in the >creek's dammed-up swimming hole and played music > in the grove. They built friendships that lasted into adulthood. And >their connections permeated every facet of Bay Area music, from the San >Francisco Symphony, Opera and Ballet orchestras to Tower of Power and >virtually every school bandroom. It was Caz faculty, for example, who >first came up with the idea of a professional baroque chamber orchestra >composed entirely of period instruments. The result: San Francisco's >internationally renowned Philharmonia Baroque, founded by the late Laurette >Goldberg. As Cazadero's 50th anniversary approaches, the people who toted >musical instruments across that swaying suspension bridge all sing a >similar refrain. They speak of music, magic and trees. The Caz connection > "It's about the camaraderie, the caring, the nurturing, the vision and >the magic," says Norm Dea, director of Walnut Creek's Las Lomas High School >music program. "Cazadero is about inspiring the total student." Randy >Porter, music director of Oakland's Westlake > Middle School, talks about the sheer "magic" of playing and teaching >"amongst the old-growth, giant redwoods." And Orinda Intermediate School >conductor Greg Mazmanian recalls the emotional impact of playing under the >trees and in the woodsy bandshell both as a camper and later as a conductor >and father of a camper, daughter Rose. "Every morning they had Reveille, >every evening they had Taps," he said. "I was the only violinist ever to >play Taps. I was so into it." These days, Doris Fukawa divides her time >between the top post at the Crowden School, Berkeley's prestigious music >academy and private school, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music >faculty, and performance engagements with the San Francisco Symphony and >Opera orchestras. But that path began in 1969 with a camper scholarship >to Caz. It was "an entry point into a whole different world," she says; not >just classical music, but jazz, funk and rock. "It was a very powerful >place for me," says the Cazadero > board member. "Music becomes part of the fabric of your life. You have >the freedom to be who you are." Caz jazz teacher Jon Brummel calls >Cazadero the "musical mafia of the Bay Area" because so many of the area's >musicians have crossed paths there. There's a personal angle, too -- >Brummel met his wife, Liz, when they were both on staff. They were married >in 2000 in the Cazadero bandshell. "You made friendships," says Liz, who >teaches music in the Lafayette schools, "that literally have lasted us all >the years." That includes years when Cazadero was more of an idea than a >place. In the mid-1970s, after a disagreement with the city of Berkeley >about the direction of the camp -- a venue for serious music students >versus a more generalized approach -- the Lutts' music camp moved, first to >Mendocino, then Danville and finally to Marin. But Lutt's children, who >literally grew up at camp, had other plans. Resurrection In 1995, Bill >Lutt, then executive director of the > Berkeley Symphony, phoned up 50 former "Caz kids" to see if they would be >interested in resurrecting the music camp of their youth: More than 35 >showed up with open checkbooks, open hearts and work gloves. The next >summer, hundreds of young musicians traipsed across the suspension bridge >at Cazadero Performing Arts Camp once again. They stopped to gaze at >babbling Austin Creek, then poured into the grove. They set up their cots >on the tent cabin decks and propped teddy bears atop sleeping bags. And a >new generation of kids began doing all those Caz things once more. >Several of those young musicians were the children of Oakland City Council >staffer Kathy Dwyer, who became executive director in 2001. Dwyer was just >13 the first time she crossed the camp's bridge herself, toting a huge >string bass. Back then, the creek was dammed to form swimming holes for >canoeing and swimming, she says. Campers would cross the bridge to buy >cherry Cokes and french fries at the old Elim > Grove restaurant, and vie for clean-cabin points to win milkshakes. >Floodwaters swept the dams away long ago, but the milkshake contests are >still a beloved part of camp. Hans und Franz, the ridiculous bodybuilders >of "Saturday Night Live" fame, are resurrected every skit night. The camp >store still sells Choco Tacos. And the stacking cup game -- and cacophonous >sound of falling cups -- still drives grown-ups nuts. UC Santa Cruz >student Heather Knight was a 9-year-old flutist and first-time camper when >Cazadero reopened in 1996. This is the first summer she's not on staff, she >says, and it feels strange. But her younger brothers, both El Cerrito High >students, are working in the camp kitchen. She'll see them next Sunday when >Caz throws open its doors, so to speak, for 50th reunion festivities -- a >concert, luncheon and the chance to see old friends and reminisce about the >music, campfires and goofy scavenger hunts. Like Knight, nearly every >staff member is a former > camper who just keeps coming back. "Once they came, they didn't want to >leave," says camp director Jim Mazzaferro. "I didn't." Mazzaferro, a >string bass player who teaches music at Elk Grove's Sheldon High School, >first came to camp in 1970. Cazadero sort of rhymed with Mazzaferro, he >says with a laugh, but it was the camp experience that hooked him. "It >was the music in this setting," he says. "I was finally with a group of >people who were passionate about the same thing I was passionate about. You >finally felt like you belonged. You fit in. You mattered." Mazzaferro's >wife, Anita, also a former camper, heads the kitchen crew. It's a job the >former Marriott food production manager acquired by default in 2001, when >Jim took over the camp directorship. Everything that could go wrong did >that summer, including torrential rainfall and a series of culinary >mishaps. Cook No. 1 quit the night before the camp began. His replacement >promptly burned himself so badly he > couldn't work, and the third guy couldn't cook at all. Six years later, >Anita's still here, barbecuing tri-tip, assembling lavish pasta, taco and >salad bars, and serving up Sloppy Joes. Their daughter is the girls' camp >dean and resident paramedic, and a son teaches bass. Bob and Beth Lutt >still come up for concerts from their Berkeley home. Granddaughter Sara >Beth Lutt-Pournoor flies out from Minnesota every summer for camp. This >year, she's a counselor-in-training who says she "can't imagine being >anywhere else -- it's amazing to watch these kids develop as musicians and >people at the same time." Fifty years later, Cazadero plays on. Reach >Jackie Burrell at 925-977-8568 or jburrell@cctimes.com. More info >AVAILABILITY: Cazadero's famous music camp is fully booked this summer, but >the 2008 schedule will include several 12-day sessions for middle and high >school musicians, a shorter session for fifth- through eighth-graders, and >two weeklong family arts camps. Information about next summer's offerings >should go online in early 2008. > >COST: The nonprofit camp is supported by camp fees -- which ranged from >$660-$1,388 this year -- as well as private donations and grants. > >CONTACT: To make a tax-deductible donation to the camp or to the bandshell >building fund, visit http://www.cazadero.org. Cazadero Reunion > > >WHAT: 50th anniversary concert, lunch and camp tours > >WHEN: Noon-5 p.m. July 22 > >WHERE: Cazadero Performing Arts Camp, Cazadero Highway > >TICKETS: $25 for adults, $15 for children 12 and under. For more >information, visit http://www.cazadero.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I when to the camp twice, once with science class, and the other time >with a group students from Berkeley's Sister City Sakai Japan. Also I >remember when Bob Lutt, took the Berkeley High Marching Band, to the Rose >Bowl Parade. > > George > > >--------------------------------- >Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate >in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >CAALAMED-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Tell MSN about your most memorable emails! http://www.emailbritain.co.uk/

Hi there According to the 1880 California census a Daniel Ryon was living at the home of Gabella Henry in Oakland, Alameda. I found this on the Ancestry site but as the writing is so small I have difficulty in reading it. My query is this - can anybody tell me whether he is a naturalized citizen and if this is the case how do I go about obtaining a copy of the certificate to check if this could be a relative of mine. The entry reads Daniel Ryon single male aged 35 from Ireland occupation Drugist. Thanks for any help received. Kind regards Pat Wilkinson _________________________________________________________________ Win tickets to the sold out Live Earth concert! http://liveearth.uk.msn.com