Johnson Johnson and Johnson

FlipShare - Limited Viewport

2011-01-02T06:31:00.000-08:00

FlipShare - Limited Viewport

In The Green

2010-05-15T06:05:00.000-07:00

In The Green from IN THE CAR MEDIA on Vimeo.

Pink Brian (and Brett)

2009-01-27T13:26:00.001-08:00

Pink Brian from IN THE CAR MEDIA on Vimeo

Super Cop

2009-01-27T13:24:00.000-08:00

Farce abt old cop shows. Brett is NOT in this...

Moore's Law

2009-01-27T11:57:00.001-08:00

Moore's Law from IN THE CAR MEDIA on Vimeo.

Salem History Alive Promotional

2009-01-27T11:55:00.001-08:00

Gordon College sponsors this 'you be the jury' "History Alive" lesson on the Salem Witchtrials every summer - and into the fall. Brett is in this an worked very hard most summers. They had to know their facts because the audience asked them a lot of questions.

Golden Goose Promotional Video

2009-01-27T11:52:00.000-08:00

Commericial for the Annual College Video "Awards" - reference to the entries

Gordon South - Trip from Gordon College MA to Gordon College in Georgia

2009-01-27T11:49:00.001-08:00

Brett & his buddies took a road trip from their college Gordon College - a small Christian college in Massachusetts to another Gordon College - a public two-year college in Georgia. They called themselves unofficial goodwill ambassadors. True story of trip. It was the beginning of "in the car media" (love the PA section)

Freshman Year

2009-01-27T11:48:00.000-08:00

Made on campus & nearby (north of Boston) during Brett's sophomore year.

Brett Johnson, Tim -actors and Dave Ells (videoproduction)

In Car on Way to Visit Grandma

2009-01-27T08:36:00.000-08:00

Riding up the Northway

2009-01-27T08:35:00.002-08:00

Posing for you

2009-01-27T08:31:00.002-08:00

2008-12-28T14:23:00.000-08:00

Christmas
2008

San Diego Christmas 2007

2008-12-08T06:38:00.000-08:00

Visiting her relatives at Christmas time.

Christmas Eve 2007

2008-12-08T06:36:00.000-08:00

Fall 2007 Damaris and John

2008-12-08T06:34:00.002-08:00

Damaris John (and Audrey)

2008-12-08T06:31:00.000-08:00

Wedding party

Damaris and John Wedding

2008-12-08T06:29:00.000-08:00

Reception

December 23, 2006

Audrey and Damaris Wedding

2008-12-08T06:25:00.002-08:00

Audrey (Brett's wife), then girlfriend, was Damaris' Maid of Honor & only attendant in her wedding.

December 23, 2006

Easter 2006 Again

2008-12-08T06:25:00.001-08:00

Dating Easter 2006

2008-12-08T06:22:00.000-08:00

Wedding Shower Fall 2006

2008-12-08T06:19:00.000-08:00

2nd Photo Engaged Couple Fall 2006

2008-12-08T06:17:00.000-08:00

Engaged Couple Fall 2006

2008-12-08T06:15:00.000-08:00

2008-11-10T19:03:00.000-08:00

With Javier from Spain at Niagara Falls,
Dragos & Johnsons, abt
19920

2008-11-09T19:42:00.000-08:00

2008-11-09T19:35:00.000-08:00

Monster!

Brett 1989 or 1990

East Greenbush, NY

2008-11-09T19:23:00.000-08:00

the courier -

about 4 years old

2008-11-09T19:16:00.000-08:00

John Johnson III proudly owning his new

baby brother, Brett C Johnson.

Summer 1985

2008-10-29T18:56:00.000-07:00

John

Silver

Spring,

Maryland

Spaghetti

1986

2008-10-29T18:55:00.000-07:00

Damaris

Albuquerque

New

Mexico

Maria and her family

2008-10-29T18:47:00.000-07:00

Maria
her
family
her son, and
her
family
1988
Matamoros
Mexico

Brett and Audrey Sept 2008

2008-09-27T13:38:00.002-07:00

Brett and Audrey Sept 2008

2008-09-27T13:38:00.001-07:00

Brett and Audrey Sept 2008

2008-09-27T13:37:00.002-07:00

Brett and Audrey Sept 2008

2008-09-27T13:37:00.001-07:00

Brett and Audrey Sept 2008

2008-09-27T13:36:00.002-07:00

Brett and Audrey Sept 2008

2008-09-27T13:36:00.001-07:00

Brett and Audrey Sept 2008

2008-09-27T13:33:00.001-07:00

Brett and Audrey Sept 2008

2008-09-27T13:32:00.000-07:00

Brett and Audrey Sept 2008

2008-09-27T13:31:00.000-07:00

Striking

pose,

requested.

Brett and Audrey Sept 2008

2008-09-27T13:30:00.002-07:00

Top Floor

2 windows

facing

marin-ah.

Brett and Audrey Sept 2008

2008-09-27T13:30:00.001-07:00

The view

Brett and Audrey Sept 2008

2008-09-27T13:29:00.000-07:00

The view, the marina, the air...

portsmouth new hampshire

2008-09-27T13:27:00.000-07:00

portsmouth new hampshire

2008-09-27T13:26:00.000-07:00

portsmouth new hampshire

2008-09-27T13:25:00.001-07:00

portsmouth new hampshire

2008-09-27T13:24:00.000-07:00

portsmouth new hampshire

2008-09-27T13:22:00.000-07:00

Brett in cupboad, JKJ 3 in kitchen

2008-09-09T09:46:00.000-07:00

Our belongings were in storage, awaiting our move to Mexico. We didn't need much in the cupboards. Brett enjoyed crawling inside the bottom cupboard. Good safe play. This was winter 1986 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.

JKJ III, Silver Spring, Maryland, Jan 1986

2008-09-09T09:42:00.000-07:00

Finishing spaghetti dinner.

Sundown, NY c. 1963

2008-09-09T09:40:00.000-07:00

Damaris

2008-09-09T09:31:00.000-07:00

Damaris, San Diego, California, Christmas 2007

Audrey 2008

2008-09-09T09:29:00.000-07:00

Audrey

2008

John and Mom at the same Event

2007-06-27T13:47:00.000-07:00

Once again, not sure where or when, but I think Brett was around 8, and John 11 or 12. VBS' final program that year, perhaps.

It's summertime, that's for sure.

Fambly Sometime in the 90s

2007-06-27T13:38:00.000-07:00

I think this was post-VBS. We're all hot-and the boys are somewhat tanned. It was taken in the LCS gym and other people are standing around in the background. I love Brett's mannequin pose.

Mom and Pop After Kenya Trip 1990s

2007-06-27T13:25:00.000-07:00

Dad's Return from Kenya Trip 1993

2007-06-27T13:21:00.000-07:00

Brett was 8 and he must have come over looking at the chocolate bar. Nothing else on the table was quite as attractive. Don't know why he has a bandage over his eye.

Robin Damaris and Mom

2007-06-18T07:23:00.000-07:00

Grandpa Higgins, niece Emily Higgins and Uncle Dave at the table behind us.

Damaris, Dan Drago and Aunt Robin Drago

2007-06-18T07:21:00.000-07:00

MMMMmm FOOD

2007-06-18T07:20:00.000-07:00

2 More of Damaris and John

2007-06-12T08:12:00.001-07:00

2 photos: Damaris and Aunt Robin laughing during the wedding reception.
John and Damaris leave after the reception.

The OTHER newlyweds: Damaris and John

2007-06-12T08:06:00.000-07:00

It was good to see them both. They looked so strong and happy together. Way to GO!

Mr & Mrs Brett Johnson

2007-06-10T18:04:00.001-07:00

Audrey and Brett were married on June 9 in Wilmington Delaware. Bro' John was Best Man and Lauren (sister to Audrey) was "Best Woman." Damaris Johnson was the Best Reader. We officiated as the alleged parents of the groom.

June 9, 2007 Wedding for Audrey and Brett

2007-06-05T07:45:00.000-07:00

Audrey Peters of Wilmington, Delaware and Brett (Gordon College, ’05 and Gordon College ’07) will be wed on Saturday, June 9, 2007 at 11 AM in Claymont, Delaware.

They will honeymoon in the Caribbean. They will be living north of Boston in Somerville. After the honeymoon, Brett will be working for a GPS company and Audrey will likely move jobs.

Getting The Wedding License Today

2007-06-04T09:49:00.000-07:00

Brett's Graduation May 2007 Part 5

2007-05-21T12:20:00.000-07:00

Back in Mission Control after the graduation:

Brett's Graduation May 2007 Part 4

2007-05-21T12:19:00.001-07:00

Brett's Graduation May 2007 Part 3

2007-05-21T12:17:00.000-07:00

Brett's Graduation May 2007 Part 2

2007-05-21T12:10:00.000-07:00

Two pictures in the previous post were of the bagpipe opening to the Commencement Exercises and the President (in green on dias) opening remarks.
This post has a lot of black in it: Brett is on the dias getting the diploma in one and in amongst the crew in the other.

The next post will be of the immediately after (out in the rain), of the light refreshment time and then back in Brett's suite.

Brett's Graduation May 2007

2007-05-21T12:05:00.000-07:00

Fall of Freshman Year - Glouchester Massachuesetts

2007-05-09T16:03:00.000-07:00

Brett in Glouchester,
early October 2003

Homeland Security Interview for Damaris

2007-05-08T14:47:00.000-07:00

Sailing near Marblehead, MA

2007-05-03T15:32:00.000-07:00

Take a mini-vacation

2007-05-02T19:22:00.000-07:00

Yes John and Damaris, I will get the other pictures up soon. Right now check out :

http://sundowniest.blogspot.com

for a couple pix taken the land outside Gettysburg last weekend.

Dazzling Damaris waves to John and Uncle Mike

2007-05-01T09:15:00.000-07:00

THIS is living!

2007-04-24T12:36:00.000-07:00

Damaris on vacation
in the
Land of
Enchantment.

Can you dig it?

Black and White Brett and Audrey

2007-04-24T12:30:00.000-07:00

Experimental (it wasn't really a polaroid). Audrey and Brett are below (or blew, as I first typed)..ggggeeez

This photo was taken the last time I was in Massachusetts, I think.

Help!

2007-04-24T12:23:00.000-07:00

Drago Cousins

2007-04-24T12:13:00.000-07:00

Ok here is MORE FAMILY! The family gathering at John's sister Robin (and Jim) Drago's house in Macedon, New York. Top picture, from left to right: Brett (red shirt), Dave Drago (shaved head) Dan Drago (black), red-haired girl near Dan is Lisa, his (now) wife.

In bottom picture: cousin Andrew (in coral), JKJ3 (Did I pass this, boys?) Oh yeah, Dan and John are 6 months apart in age. Andrew is older than Brett but less than a year older. Dave straddles the gulf (And we thank him for that!)

Brett at 3 1/2

2007-04-21T08:45:00.000-07:00

Typical pose. Genetic, not learned!? His brother never did this for a picture and he always stuck his tongue out, no matter how discouraged he was from doing it. At least he was (and is) a kind kid.

Audrey's Parents

2007-04-16T15:23:00.000-07:00

Article from Delaware Online about Brett's fiance's parents' (Mark and Amy) dry cleaning business. See below:

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070407/NEWS/704070327/1006/NEWS

After 60 years, details are still the focus
Family-owned Penny Hill dry-cleaning business noted for attention to the little things

By BETH MILLER, The News Journal
Posted Saturday, April 7, 2007

PENNY HILL -- Where do you take a pair of 19th-century silk dresses to be cleaned? And how do you get the wrinkles out of acres of fabric?

When Linda Eaton, curator of textiles for Winterthur Museum, faces such challenges, she calls North Hills Cleaners in Penny Hill.

The cleaners brought the dulled silk dresses back to a light-reflecting sheen, she said, and washed and pressed the quilt backings now protecting Winterthur's "Quilts In The Material World" exhibit.

"Because North Hills is a hands-on family firm and very experienced, they've been willing to do special things for our objects," she said.

Today, North Hills owners Mark and Amy Peters mark the 60th anniversary of the business, continuing a family profession started by Mark's father and uncle in a two-door garage on the same Philadelphia Pike lot where the shop still stands. The business has grown to include about 16 employees, a dry-cleaning plant, a cold-storage vault, an alterations shop and a long list of loyal customers.

"My dad always said, 'If you do the job right, you'll get the work,' " Mark Peters said.

North Hills is not for bargain hunters. While some cleaners charge $1.25 to launder and press a business shirt, North Hills charges $2.50.

But, Peters said, the business uses high-end detergents that leave fabrics with a "soft hand," high-end equipment and a process that protects the life span of garments. The staff has persnickety inspection methods and doesn't cut corners.

"We cater to those looking for quality," he said.

The times have changed since Peters' dad and uncle opened the business in 1947, and the cleaning process has changed, too.

Use of dry-cleaning solvent has plummeted to about a tenth of what it was in the early years, Peters said. The process used to consume 1,200 to 1,500 gallons of perchloroethylene a year. It now uses about 140 gallons, he said.

The cold-storage unit holds an assortment of furs and leathers -- in an optimal 58-degree, 50 percent humidity environment. But Peters said demand for fur storage has declined, perhaps reflecting society's changing views on fur coats. The vault used to hold 1,000 furs in the 1950s, he said. It now has more like 200 to 300.

What hasn't changed is the continuing challenge of removing assorted spots and stains from people's clothes.

Certified dry cleaner/spotter Kevin Murphy of Bellefonte last week worked with a pair of beige silk walking shorts whose owner had spilled red wine on them. It was a challenging case.

"Wine and silk do not mix," Murphy said. But by the time he got done, it was impossible to tell they had ever done so.

A high-pressure, 700-gallon, three-pass boiler produces steam for an assortment of machines. Some of the steam is drier, some more moist -- depending on the job for which it is intended.

Silk presses, puff irons, utility presses and detail machines keep wrinkles from leaving the premises. And long cardboard tubes are ready to keep tablecloths crease-free.

Along one wall of the plant are button cabinets holding a wide assortment of items that might need replacing or repair -- hooks, eyes, snaps, clasps, beads, pearl buttons, elbow patches, buckles, shoulder pads, designer metal buttons, blanket bindings and coat zippers, to name a few.

Detail work is crucial for this clientele and for another group Eaton sends North Hills' way. Every year, Peters hosts graduate students from the University of Delaware's art conservation program, offered in partnership with Winterthur.

"Solvent-based cleaning, using a solvent other than water, is a very important part of cleaning historic objects," she said. "So we take our graduate students to North Hills to show them behind the scenes how dry cleaners work. The people who own the firm are engaged and involved in running it, and because they specialize in high-end, special cleaning problems, they're interested in those kinds of things."

The demonstration sometimes includes putting a piece of tissue paper into the pocket of a garment before dry-cleaning it, then extracting the paper -- completely unchanged -- from the pocket at the end of the process. Murphy said he has done the same thing by putting an aspirin pill in a pocket. It, too, emerges unscathed -- as everyone hopes their dry-cleaning pile will.

"I take my clothes there, too," Eaton said. "I know too much about dry cleaning."

Brett Hosting Gordon's 2007 Golden Goose

2007-04-15T16:20:00.000-07:00

My Cousins Joe-Joe's Family

2007-04-04T08:09:00.000-07:00

These cousins bear the mark of the Higgins' who inherited my Grandma Barnwell's features of darkest brown hair (some say black) with light complexions. Same as I did. Oh yes, 3 of his daughters majored in chemical engineering-the ability to analyze with ease is another Higgins inheritance.
Joan (top left,blue shirt), Suzy (red shirt on left) and her brother Paul James in front of her next to his mom (husband Joe is no longer alive). 2 are missing: cousin Tommy (in Latham-a computer genius) and another one who works in Albany.
Other cousins were there, but I was closest to these in age.

The Higgins Lesson

2007-04-04T07:44:00.000-07:00

The Higgins Family Reunion:

To understand this easily:
The people's names below in BLUE all have some Higgins blood, and the names which are italicied (like this) are married to a Higgins. (have pity on them!)

And if they are related or are not a Higgins but still related, as a few people are, then they have no special indication.

Top Row:
My nephew Doug, his wife Gabe, my niece's husband Ron, MY BROTHER Michael(on right end)

2nd Row Down:
MY YOUNGEST BROTHER David, his wife, Mary; their daughter, Emily, my niece, Kate (cannot see her face) - her husband is in the green shirt-I said he was on the top row.

3rd Row down:
My nephew's wife, Janet (her husband is in front of her with the baby), John Johnson, Jr (Dad), ME, next to me is the sister and husband of my brother's wife (no relation to our family but they were at the picnic)

4th Row down:
My nephew Mike (son of Michael and Sue), my uncle Bill Tilton (my MOTHER's brother-not a Higgins), my father, John Higgins, Sr, my mother, Ann (Tilton) Higgins, my brother Mike's wife (sister-in-law), Sue.

MISSING HIGGINS PEOPLE:
Eldest brother John and his wife, Donna
Their grown children:
My niece, Kerry and husband
My niece, Amy and husband
My nephew, Dan and wife and son

Also missing were both of our sons:
John K Johnson, III
and
Brett C Johnson

More fav pix

2007-04-04T07:37:00.000-07:00

At left: Damaris and John III at the Mining Museum. John Jr (Dad) and Brett in front yard after working - Virginia 2007.

5 of Us

2007-04-01T11:57:00.000-07:00

This was taken in early May 2006, I believe. Grandma Johnson is in it right nex to Dad. I think she was born in 1926. If I am wrong then I am making her 2 years younger!

The photo was taken in her living room

in her house in Warrensburg, New York. Damaris and Audrey are in the boys' lives but not in the photo. SORRY!

Brother Mike and Dad-dio at a wedding

2007-04-01T11:49:00.000-07:00

This was taken at the Doug and Gabe's wedding in 2006. Doug is the son of Uncle Mike (in the black suit) - and next to him is Dad-dad-daddio Rockin on the Patio. Behind them is Lake George in New York State.

Uncle Mike is 3 years older than I am-he was born in 1952. So if you have a calculator you know how old I am (you need a calculator for higher math).

Grandma Higgins and her brother Bill Tilton 2006

2007-04-01T11:46:00.000-07:00

My mother (Ann) is 10 years older than her brother (I think).

Another sister, Margaret - or Mardy- died suddenly a few years ago, in the 1990s. Yes, she lived in the "Big House" (Flora Dale). My cousin Edy (Edith), Burt and her family live there now.

Bill now lives in Georgia next door to his daughter and her family.

My mother still lives in New York State but in a new home.

Family and More family

2007-04-01T11:44:00.000-07:00

Variety is the spice of life.

As I get better photos of the extended family, I will post them. And, as I get more pictures of Damaris and John or Audrey and Brett (TOGETHER, hint, hint); I will post those.

Damaris and Brett and friends

2007-03-31T12:53:00.000-07:00

Don't know what Brett is doing...Damaris at the Key's house

Damaris and John 2006

2007-03-31T12:48:00.000-07:00

It is nearly a year ago that these were taken...look at the babbling brook and greenery before spring had really taken hold!

In the Uranium Museum

2007-03-28T10:47:00.000-07:00

Damaris looks ready to head down the shaft for her shift. John looks ready to make a break for it and run across the desert. Not sure what is going on. How far are they from Roswell here? Strange.

Real life

2007-03-28T10:41:00.000-07:00

I think I will put this on your YouTube link so all your friends can enjoy the experience of life with B..

Audrey and Her Sister Dec 2006

2007-03-28T10:34:00.000-07:00

\\\\ //// \\\\ //// \\\\ //// Audrey visited Lauren in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Christmas. It was so warm then they could go to the park.

Long awaited photos Brett and Audrey's Brother

2007-03-28T09:50:00.000-07:00

Audrey's brother, Mark Jr. is Brett's

age.

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Yes, both Audrey and Damaris

are older than the

Johnson boy of choice.

Damaris's Comment

2007-03-28T09:34:00.000-07:00

Damaris said she looks
like one of her brothers.
? I wouldn't know.

Just John and Damaris

2007-03-28T08:22:00.000-07:00

Damaris and John in the mine - March 2007

More of John and Damaris in Mining March 2007

2007-03-28T08:17:00.000-07:00

The dos gringos feel shaky because the signs are telling them they are in Indian (original settlers'?) Territory.

Damaris making eyes at this old gent.

Pictures from John and Damaris New Mexico 2007

2007-03-28T08:12:00.000-07:00

Damaris & John visited a Mining Museum in NM. Damaris is pointing to Romania. It had 6 nuclear reactors there at one time.