The 2017 edition of my Guide to the Art in Père-Lachaise is now available.
You can find it right here.
If you have an older edition I'll send you the new edition free of charge -- just tear off the cover and send it to:
Paris Cemeteries
PO Box 150044
Grand Rapids, Michigan
49515
USA
Be sure to include your mailing address, si vous plait!
Oh, and the map I created to go along with the guide has also been updated and you can find it online right here.
Update from Grand Rapids
It's been a sad year here in Grand Rapids and throughout the free world. For many who believe in such ideals as common decency, respect for others and just trying to be good people, it's been a tragedy beyond measure.
Closer to home the past year has seen additional sadness for our families: three loving aunts have shuffled off this mortal coil, Marian Ten Have, Marian VandenBerg and Thea Van Halsema. They lived their lives according to the faith of their fathers and were, simply and quietly, good people. Our loss is their heaven's gain. . . And my Big Brother answered his final roll call. We often disagreed but I was always in awe of him and what he achieved in his life.
Oh, and I had my second heart attack two days before Thanksgiving. Life is short, go to Paris.
Still, western Michigan has had it's share of good moments: visits with the Galloway-Ten Have clans out at Clear Lake, the sheer pleasure of visiting Meijer Gardens after dark before Christmas to see the miniature villages, dinner with a friend at the Old Goat pub, seeing the ice waves at Grand Haven State Beach, a city-wide wine tasting in Grand Haven where Patricia's Chocolate put on not just wonderful treats -- and Susie was there sampling her shortbreads -- but wonderful live cello music in the bargain.
I'll leave you with three images of treats for the eye, the mouth and the soul. . . compliments of the French Tarte!
Closer to home the past year has seen additional sadness for our families: three loving aunts have shuffled off this mortal coil, Marian Ten Have, Marian VandenBerg and Thea Van Halsema. They lived their lives according to the faith of their fathers and were, simply and quietly, good people. Our loss is their heaven's gain. . . And my Big Brother answered his final roll call. We often disagreed but I was always in awe of him and what he achieved in his life.
Oh, and I had my second heart attack two days before Thanksgiving. Life is short, go to Paris.
Still, western Michigan has had it's share of good moments: visits with the Galloway-Ten Have clans out at Clear Lake, the sheer pleasure of visiting Meijer Gardens after dark before Christmas to see the miniature villages, dinner with a friend at the Old Goat pub, seeing the ice waves at Grand Haven State Beach, a city-wide wine tasting in Grand Haven where Patricia's Chocolate put on not just wonderful treats -- and Susie was there sampling her shortbreads -- but wonderful live cello music in the bargain.
I'll leave you with three images of treats for the eye, the mouth and the soul. . . compliments of the French Tarte!
Happy 107th birthday Pop!
I still miss you, Dad -- flank steak with mashed potatoes tonight, as usual?
Ti amo Papa!!
Happy 95th Birthday Tune!
Tunis VandenBerg, 1921-1999. Husband, father, grandfather, a small town physician who was part of the Greatest Generation. . . It won't be steak on the grill tonight but we hope roast beef will be OK!
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| 1991, Grandville, Michigan with granddaughter Melissa |
Happy Birthday William J!
The oldest child and oldest boy of the Tunis VandenBerg-Bernice Van Halsema clan, William J VandenBerg 1950-2012 - taken 1955 413 Oak Street, Fremont, MI.
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