Merry Christmas 2019 and Happy New Year 2020

Our Christmas greetings now come via a Google Photos album.

Also visit Kern's website / archive, with archive of photo albums and lots of other historic stuff.

And here's a Christmas greeting from the American Bach Soloists.

Trip from Hong Kong to Singapore

We left California for Hong Kong on 27 January 2018 and returned on 14 February from Singapore via Hong Kong again, traveling by Singapore Airlines. On 31 January we sailed on the MS Volendam for ports in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand.

Here are individual albums by port-of-call, preceded by a best-of collection of 250 shots.

Best of Hong Kong to Singapore, 2018
(click on photo)

ALBUMS by port-of-call:

Hong Kong (28-31 January)

Halong Bay and Hanoi, Vietnam (3 February)

Hoi An and Da Nang (4 February)

Nha Trang (6 February)

Phu My and Ho Chi Minh City / Saigon (7 February)

Sihanoukville, Cambodia (9 February)

Laem Chabang, Bangkok (ERH), and Pattaya (DKH), Thailand (10-11 February)

Ko Samui, Thailand (12 February)

Singapore (14 February)

Inaugurating Uncle Chris

Christopher L. Holoman was inaugurated 31st president of Centenary College of Louisiana on 17 March 2017. There was a great family turnout. Click on the picture to see the full album.

Video of his inaugural address:





Afterward we went visited Creole country, LA, and the Austin TX area. Click on the picture to see the full album.

Merry Christmas 2016 and Happy New Year 2017

All the California branch wish you a wonderful holiday season and the very best for the new year.

Click on the photograph to access the album. The introduction summarizes our year.
Captions can be seen on most devices clicking or swiping through, or by selecting
the "i" option. You can also select "slideshow" to watch the album (no captions).

Arriving in Yellowstone National Park, May 2016.

Permalink: https://goo.gl/photos/sNqsoxQURZowH8CR7

All the albums for 2016 are accessible in the Blog Archive 2016, below.

Archives, cont'd.: a musicological greeting (audio) from November 1981
(AMS Cabaret, DKH conducting, Harry Johnson, emcee)

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, March 6, 2016, Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano
(Bodil Wennberg memorial concert)



Handel: Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah
American Bach Soloists, Jeffrey Thomas, conductor

Dieppe region

(Still experimenting with presentation of Google Photos albums after the demise of Picasa web-albums.)

We made a three-day trip in mid-August to places Monet and Debussy worked. Pourville-sur-Mer, Miromesnil château (where we stayed) and garden, dinner at Le Colombier (Offranville), Varengeville-sur-Mer (and Bois des Mortiers gardens), 11th-century Arques-la-Battaille château, Puys-Plage, St. Wandrille monastery, river cruise down the Seine from Rouen.

(Click on photograph or permalink to view album. On non-Apple devices you can select "slideshow" to watch the album.)

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Uncle Chris in Paris

Chris came to Paris with his Centenary College program. We met up on Monday, 8 August, at the Place du Châtelet, took a walking tour through the Marais and Place des Voges, and had dinner at the Brasserie Bofinger (1864). On Wednesday, 10 August, he took the train from Paris to Méricourt (with a two-hour delay when tree branches brought the electric wires down), where we had a splendid meal of melon/prosciutto, pork products, various cheeses, and tarte aux pommes. We then took him to the airport via the locks on the Seine.

With that particular meal, we celebrated what would have been W. Kern Holoman's 96th birthday with his favorite sort of repast.



The red doors are those of the Hotel des Ambassadeurs de Holland (1660) in the Marais.

July 2016 - the Beach

Kate, Jackson, Jaron (and Leah) were at 803 Pamplona for a month while their house was on the market. DKH/ERH went to North Carolina--Raleigh, Caswell Beach, Raleigh--and on to France, arriving 19 July.

Yellowstone National Park

Flight to Cody, WY; then entered Yellowstone from east entry. First night at Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, then two nights at Old Faithful Inn.
Saw buffalo, elk, black-tailed deer herd, antelope, a wolf, a bear, pelican, swan, horned owl, and snakes.

Mare Island - Spring in Davis

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2016 Mare Island

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2016 Spring in Davis

Remembering Martha Dickman

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2016 Martha Dickman

Pitzer Center wall signing

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2016 Pitzer Center wall signing

Merry Christmas 2015 and Happy New Year 2016

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2015 Season's Greetings

Some family albums:

• Remembering W. Kern Holoman (May 2015)
• W. Kern Holoman Memoirs (2010)
• W. Kern and Katherine H. Holoman albums, 1991-94
• W. Kern and Katherine H. Holoman albums, 1956-70

Thanksgiving 2015

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2015 Thanksgiving

New York - Washington DC - Louisville

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2015 New York - Washington - Louisville

San Diego - October

Catching up with the kids.



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2015 San Diego in October

Fall in Méricourt

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2015 Fall in Méricourt

Florence, Siena

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2015 Florence, Siena

Norwich, London, Delft

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2015 Norwich, London, Delft

WKH-KHH photograph albums, 1991-94

1991




1992-1 Holy Land Trip - February 1992





1992-2  Spring and Summer



1992-3  Australia

Their trip to California, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, and back lasted 18 October - 1 December 1992. The primary purpose was to visit Dick and his family, then living in Sydney.

The trip is described fully in one of their travel diaries; e-reference on demand.

1994   Western US car trip

Spring: Peaks of Otter with Wilkersons. September-October: big Western car trip via Buffalo and Winnetka (see Travel Diary). Fall: Fredericksburg, Harper's Ferry, and Gettysburg with David and Debbie; Yorktown with Wilkersons.



The trip is described fully in one of their travel diaries; e-reference on demand.

The trip is described fully in one of their travel diaries; e-reference on demand.

Permalinks to fixed albums:

1991 WKH

1992 - 1 WKH Holy Land

1992 - 2 WKH spring and summer

1992 - 3 WKH Australia, etc.

1994 WKH, incl. Western trip

Méricourt retrospective