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Family all, greetings!  It’s been too long!

A recent exchange between some of the great aunts reinforced the urgency of a repository for family stories and information.    We tossed around ideas of how to go about this, and since this much-neglected blog already exists, we’re going to use it, but with some change in direction. 

The plan is to pose questions and hope for responses that will then be posted in the days/weeks to follow.  The questions will attempt to be roughly chronological, and may come in multiples in order to cover periods in our history. 

I hope for memories, questions, thoughts, stories, jokes, conjecture, questions... anything and everything that can add to the richness of the record.  Contributions do not require supporting evidence, and I suspect that sometimes our stories may even contradict one another, but that seems appropriate for the unruly survivors that we have been.  The one reality of which we are sure is that we have been in these islands from the beginning of European settlement, and stayed to become a part of an evolving unique culture.

Family, these questions are meant to encourage responses (and not just from great aunts), but are not meant to limit contributions to any one topic.  Please do feel free to share on anything Punnett related that occurs to you.

If you’d prefer not to get emails from the great aunts, please just let me know so I don’t intrude on your Inbox!  If there’s anyone I should add to the list, please let me have names and addresses so that I can make that right.

The first questions will post tomorrow (fingers crossed).

I’m also sharing a link to the art gallery of a Caribbean blog that I do with my maternal cousin, Nan Peacocke.  Paintings and photographs by family members (thus far...Zen, Tristan , Denise), are dotted throughout the blog, and have been showcased on the Art Gallery  (Lynn Cevene, Rachael, and, most recently, first daughter of Betty and Langley ~ Rosalind Punnett Wilkinson).  Five of Roz’s paintings shown belong to Betty Jane who graciously allowed their use.  https://archipelagospeak.wordpress.com/art-gallery/

I hope you’re all thriving.  And I hope that we can get some momentum going in creating a record, or an outline anyway, of our story.

Love to allyuh.

Lisbie xanother photo of our beautiful Valley from Lynden