Mid-September through mid-October we will be visiting the churches of Christ throughout Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. We will start north and (hopefully) capture the peak Autumn season. I will be taking my Nikkon to capture some God-made views.

We made a short trip to Michigan in July and took our granddaughters, Mercedes and Meriah, to become familiar with their Roedel ancestry in Frankenmuth, Michigan, a mid-19th century German settlement. Ancestors came from Bavaria and spoke Byrish (sp?) "slang" style German. I always thought it meant "sloppy German", like mixing English with the German, but no, it is the "southern dialect" of Germany. Rick's father's ancestry is Germany too, but his mom's lineage is Scottish, from the Baker-Welch clans who settled on Manitoulin Island and established the Ice Lake Church of Christ.