Friday, July 5, 2019

This was The Schroders in Kingston, NY

   Herman and Gertrude installed this swimming pool in their back yard on  Wrentham Street in Kingston in May, 1969. I remember because I was in St. Mary's Hospital in Troy and family members were working on the pool while I was having a baby. All the action seemed centered there: I felt so alone. (Though Dave was here of course.)  The elder Schroders already had 6 grandchildren, but they lived across the country. Herman especially wanted the pool for the grandkids, I think.
  So a few years later, in the summer of 1973, as the picture shows, the whole family was in the pool, all 9 grandkids. Danny missed it, as he wasn't born until 4 years later. His time in the pool was limited as his grandfather died the year Danny was born, in 1977, and things were never the same.
    Unfortunately, in an attempt to include the pool in the picture (and it was a spectacular pool for its time) some of the people got severed, notably Bill and one of his 4 sons, I think Thomas.
Dave is kneeling in front of those 2 wounded  people; next to him is David, and John Schroder. Of those 2 little cousins, David was the elder by 5 months.
Grandpa Herman is sitting next to Grandma who is holding Marilyn.
I am standing next to Norine and Don and  Barbara are  on the end. The taller boy in back is Paul (I think) and then Phillip, the 2 redheads Martha and Carl, and the youngest of the 6 siblings, Annemarie.

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