On Monday, I was ecstatic to receive an email that Reunions magazine wants to publish paragraphs about playing games, and preparing food for family reunions from my essay, "On the Road Again." Our family has had a family reunion approx. every 2 years at places all over the US - beach at Yachats, OR; top of the mountain at Breckenridge, CO; Whigbey Island off the coast of Wash-above... My oldest daughter was a year old at the first one in Bartlesville, OK, and she had five cousins there. Our family is scattered all over, and two of my children now have families of their own.
Flathead Lake in Montana was one of the biggest with 40 people attending of all ages. It is next to Glacier Park (pics on side bar) and is gorgeous. My aunt who was in her 90s came from the care center to visit everyone.
Our families have taken a motor home to Canada and visted a Historic trading post; rode on pontoon boats on Otter Tail Lake; visted lighthouses on the coast... I have taken hamburger buns from the thrift store and pans of frozen lasagna to Colorado; at a motel, Grandma pulled out a dresser drawer and made a bed for my year-old daughter. She was happy!!
Reunions magazine is a nationally circulated U.S. quarterly magazine founded by Edith Wagner in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and first published in 1990.
Circulation is to 20,000 persons who are planning family reunions, class reunions, military reunions and similar events. Most readers are qualified as reunion organizers by a survey they complete on the magazine’s web site, http://www.reunionsmag.com. [1][2]
The magazine and web site address details, concerns, and issues involved in planning reunions, and provides tools to use in planning them. Subject areas include travel (primarily family travel), genealogy and family history, choosing places and dates for reunions, and what to do at reunions. 8/11/10
