PHOTOS
& FUN
at the
WEDDING of TINA YUSHAN GOURD
and
LORRIN HANNAY NELSON
Baby Island Lodge & Freeland Hall
Whidbey Island, 21-25 July 2004
at the
WEDDING of TINA YUSHAN GOURD
and
LORRIN HANNAY NELSON
Baby Island Lodge & Freeland Hall
Whidbey Island, 21-25 July 2004
INTRO / HOME
BABY ISLAND LODGE
FREELAND HALL & CEREMONY
Jerry's photos added 15Aug04. Others stolen and "improved" from Rob Starling.
Photos click up to full camera size for printing; e.g., take them captured on a CD to a photo store for real "wet chemistry" prints (4x6 paper is cheapest, matches film, but crops digital cameras on the 4" height). If you are happy with an upload service (ofoto prints, whatever), let us know. Click-to-enlarge takes you back to where you left off on the page (thank you, Lorrin). Corrections to jerry-VA@prodigy.net. Thanks, Carol, Anita, Tina for First Aid with names.
--Robin & Jerry Nelson
BABY ISLAND LODGE
FREELAND HALL & CEREMONY
Jerry's photos added 15Aug04. Others stolen and "improved" from Rob Starling.
Photos click up to full camera size for printing; e.g., take them captured on a CD to a photo store for real "wet chemistry" prints (4x6 paper is cheapest, matches film, but crops digital cameras on the 4" height). If you are happy with an upload service (ofoto prints, whatever), let us know. Click-to-enlarge takes you back to where you left off on the page (thank you, Lorrin). Corrections to jerry-VA@prodigy.net. Thanks, Carol, Anita, Tina for First Aid with names.
--Robin & Jerry Nelson
CW fr upper L: Warren & Mandy
Menzer, Lorrin Hannay Nelson, Eric Freedman, Erin Rathert Hartel,
Virginia Nguyen.
Logo fr Roosevelt HS, Seattle. Photos: Rob Starling.
Florence & Robin Nelson, Eric Freedman, Carol Vu, George Meaders,
Katie Gourd, Knightly Hartel. Photo: Jerry Nelson.
HURTLING THROUGH LIFE TO BEACH WEEK
The wedding was a reunion of all Tina and Lorrin's friends -- like the Beach Weeks of years ago, but parents could come too. Mom might have consulted on "Day 2 pizza dough for 30", but Tina and Lorrin created the celebration and nailed the logistics.
Most guests have been hurtling through jobs, relationships, conflicts between the two, and sequencing out-of-state college and professional training in new cities anywhere. The 20s are when you have to figure out who you are, what you want to do with your life, how to trick society into letting you get away with it, and who your lifelong partner in crime will be. This wedding was time out and time to compare notes. Lorrin's Website facilitated the logistics, but the event's success had longtime roots.
For Robin and me, the wedding's alarming start was 8 years earlier, when Lorrin's crowd hired a house and proposed the first Beach Week. Boys and girls alone on the beach? The parents of one friend called an emergency meeting on 14 May. Then other parents called a Unity Barbecue when we realized we weren't going to stop it. Beach Week moved to the Dec/Jan Christmas break after adult schedules closed in, but it never died. And, of course, Beach Week, too, was supported by a Website, as you'd expect for kids coming out of "TJ", the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Northern Virginia.
This "Beach Week" had a wedding attached and celebrated The United Clans of Tina and Lorrin, principally:
Roosevelt High School, Seattle
Celebrate technology for a moment. Most of us who tumbled through young adulthood in the 1950s & '60s are lucky to have hung onto a handful of "trophy friends". The Internet changes life's journey. Sure, creating a computer creates an isolated, undersocialized nerd. But networking the same computers changes human groups everywhere, because a communications revolution is a social revolution. Putting more and more of a civilization's wisdom and folly on those networks changes the distribution of power, because information is power. The initial revolution in semiconductor chips and computation was a technological revolution that drove the USA to its peak of geopolitical power. Today's revolutions in communication and information are social revolutions. These revolutions are reshaping the world in which the USA finds itself. And the changes are unstoppable -- each of the three revolutions of our century drives the next.
On to the photos.
Logo fr Roosevelt HS, Seattle. Photos: Rob Starling.
Florence & Robin Nelson, Eric Freedman, Carol Vu, George Meaders,
Katie Gourd, Knightly Hartel. Photo: Jerry Nelson.
HURTLING THROUGH LIFE TO BEACH WEEK
The wedding was a reunion of all Tina and Lorrin's friends -- like the Beach Weeks of years ago, but parents could come too. Mom might have consulted on "Day 2 pizza dough for 30", but Tina and Lorrin created the celebration and nailed the logistics.
Most guests have been hurtling through jobs, relationships, conflicts between the two, and sequencing out-of-state college and professional training in new cities anywhere. The 20s are when you have to figure out who you are, what you want to do with your life, how to trick society into letting you get away with it, and who your lifelong partner in crime will be. This wedding was time out and time to compare notes. Lorrin's Website facilitated the logistics, but the event's success had longtime roots.
For Robin and me, the wedding's alarming start was 8 years earlier, when Lorrin's crowd hired a house and proposed the first Beach Week. Boys and girls alone on the beach? The parents of one friend called an emergency meeting on 14 May. Then other parents called a Unity Barbecue when we realized we weren't going to stop it. Beach Week moved to the Dec/Jan Christmas break after adult schedules closed in, but it never died. And, of course, Beach Week, too, was supported by a Website, as you'd expect for kids coming out of "TJ", the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Northern Virginia.
This "Beach Week" had a wedding attached and celebrated The United Clans of Tina and Lorrin, principally:
- Roosevelt
High School , Seattle, with a great music program and marching
band
- Thomas Jefferson HS, Northern VA
- Swarthmore College, near Philadelphia PA
Roosevelt High School, Seattle
Celebrate technology for a moment. Most of us who tumbled through young adulthood in the 1950s & '60s are lucky to have hung onto a handful of "trophy friends". The Internet changes life's journey. Sure, creating a computer creates an isolated, undersocialized nerd. But networking the same computers changes human groups everywhere, because a communications revolution is a social revolution. Putting more and more of a civilization's wisdom and folly on those networks changes the distribution of power, because information is power. The initial revolution in semiconductor chips and computation was a technological revolution that drove the USA to its peak of geopolitical power. Today's revolutions in communication and information are social revolutions. These revolutions are reshaping the world in which the USA finds itself. And the changes are unstoppable -- each of the three revolutions of our century drives the next.
On to the photos.