Chitown Trotts: Jon and Carol Elaine's family chronicles

2005-02-17T19:26:00.000-08:00

Trevor whacking the skins.

2005-02-17T19:25:00.000-08:00

Chris in full flail at Cornerstone Festival.

2005-02-17T19:23:00.000-08:00

Christopher and Trevor at Cornerstone playing with the Blamed.

2005-02-17T19:19:00.000-08:00

Carol (left) with Mimi Haddad, president of Christians for Biblical Equality (right), at Cornerstone 2003. CBE is a wonderful group, and Carol and I have been honored to be associated with them.

2005-02-17T18:51:00.000-08:00

Hannah (Trev's lady), Trevor, Matthew Miller (Tabi's friend), Christopher, Tabitha.

2005-02-17T18:49:00.000-08:00

Tabitha in her mother's lap.

2005-02-17T18:48:00.000-08:00

Breaking out in ribbons! Christopher and Tabitha on her birthday.

2005-02-17T18:45:00.000-08:00

Chris Wiitala (Trott) in a pensive moment.

2005-02-17T18:43:00.000-08:00

Tabitha (right) with her friend Matthew.

2005-02-17T18:40:00.000-08:00

Carol at Cornerstone Farm doing some woodworking with the scrollsaw Jon bought for her at a yardsale that day.

2005-02-17T18:34:00.000-08:00

Carol and a dolly.

2005-02-17T18:31:00.000-08:00

Carol at five months, perhaps at her Grandfather Durkin's farm.

2005-02-17T18:30:00.000-08:00

Carol (left), Tabitha (back of head only), and Tamzen at Chicago Lincoln Park Zoo, sometime in the late 80s or early 90s.

2005-02-17T18:26:00.000-08:00

John and Eleanor Durkin with their first two children, Marilyn and Carol.

2005-02-17T18:23:00.000-08:00

Carol school photo... 1961?

2005-02-17T18:21:00.000-08:00

Carol on September 2, 1989 (our wedding day).

2005-02-17T18:20:00.000-08:00

Carol (second from left) in England during her "Lonesome Stone" days... oh, if Jon could have been that lil' hippie's lover then! Wowser.

2005-02-17T18:17:00.000-08:00

Carol (with a haircut she hated), Jane, Marilyn, and (in front) Shirley.

2005-02-17T18:16:00.000-08:00

Carol on the running board of a sweet looking but very muddy car.

2005-02-17T18:15:00.000-08:00

A photo gallery print of young dad with his firstborn, Carol Elaine.

2005-02-17T18:12:00.000-08:00

A snip from a larger photo of Carol's dad holding her while standing on a large snowdrift next to "highway 44" (handwritten on the photo). She was one year old; it was 1948.

2005-02-17T18:09:00.000-08:00

Carol in the yard of a farm (her grandparents?)

2005-02-17T18:08:00.000-08:00

Carol in the snow.

2005-02-17T18:07:00.000-08:00

The little house in Grand Forks where Carol and her sibs (here she's again with Marilyn, on the left) grew up.

2005-02-17T18:04:00.000-08:00

Marilyn has here inherited that little Polish dress Carol once wore, but the usual look of unease on Carol's face is this time nearly matched by Marilyn.

2005-02-17T18:01:00.000-08:00

Carol on right, her mother with her (and John?). This sure informs us where Carol got her stunning looks.

2005-02-17T17:58:00.000-08:00

Carol (still so serious!) and Marilyn at her most impish yet.

2005-02-17T17:57:00.000-08:00

Marilyn, again impish, while Carol still looks serious.

2005-02-17T17:52:00.000-08:00

Carol and Marilyn, Carol in a pondering mode and Marilyn looking a little impish!

2005-02-17T13:06:00.000-08:00

Small Carol on her (I think) Grandfather's farm.

2005-02-17T13:04:00.000-08:00

Jon in all his faded glory.

2005-02-17T09:00:00.000-08:00

Chris, Trevor, and Hannah at the 60th Anniversary celebration.

2005-02-17T08:48:00.000-08:00

John and Eleanor Durkin, Carol's parents, at their 60th Wedding Anniversary party in Grand Forks, ND.

2005-02-16T22:48:00.000-08:00

Carol's high school graduation picture. Jon starts sweating every time he looks at this one.

2005-02-16T22:47:00.000-08:00

Carol in Fort Benton, Montana (Jon's hometown) during bicentennial days.

2005-02-16T22:46:00.000-08:00

Carol with her boys, but before Jon (alas!!).

2005-02-16T22:45:00.001-08:00

Carol about to go to her Catholic confirmation.

2005-02-16T22:45:00.000-08:00

Carol at Mass.

2005-02-16T22:44:00.000-08:00

Carol (hot!) in Jerusalem, late 1960s.

2005-02-16T22:43:00.001-08:00

Carol and sister Marilyn.

2005-02-16T22:43:00.000-08:00

Carol in that cutest little Polish dress! She's around three (thus this would be 1950 or 51).

2005-02-16T22:42:00.000-08:00

Carol with the bicycle she won in a raffle.

2005-02-16T22:41:00.000-08:00

The six Durkin children (Carol upper left). I think this was around 1960.

2005-02-16T22:40:00.000-08:00

Carol Elaine's mother gives her a haircut.

2005-02-16T22:39:00.000-08:00

Carol's Dad gets a glass of water (what a great picture; I retouched it just a bit for more contast and gave it a sepia tone.)

2005-02-16T22:36:00.000-08:00

Carol's aunts, Bridget and Evelyn. Bridget has been a Sister of Saint Benedict for the past fifty years, and is as sweet as the One she loves.

2005-02-16T22:35:00.000-08:00

The four Trott kids with Gramma and Grampa Durkin.

2005-02-16T22:32:00.000-08:00

Carol's brother John imitating Dennis the Menace, and doing a pretty good job.

2005-02-16T22:31:00.000-08:00

Carol's dad, for reasons even he can't recall, decided one day to straddle two houses -- his and the one next door. My question: "How did you get down once you'd taken that position?" He had no memory of that, either. Whew!

2005-02-16T22:28:00.000-08:00

Carol was the oldest in her family, but Marilyn was next, and the two of them were always together. Here's Marilyn standing next to a sign which she doesn't pay any attention to.

2005-02-16T22:27:00.000-08:00

A cousin on left with Carol's sister, Jane, on right on their first Catholic Church communion day.

2005-02-16T22:25:00.000-08:00

Tamzen brushes Tabitha's hair.

2005-02-16T22:23:00.000-08:00

Trevor and his Hannah. Or is it Hannah and her Trevor? (I gotta be egalitarian about this!)

2005-02-16T22:21:00.000-08:00

Wayne Hooey (husband of Carol's sister, Shirley) hanging out with Jon. Obviously, Jon's gotten to him.

2005-02-16T22:19:00.000-08:00

After Jon and Carol's first marriages had ended (leaving each of them with two children), they became interested in one another. It was twue wuv. This is their engagement picture.

2005-02-16T22:17:00.000-08:00

Chris and Trevor Trott (Wiitala) with Shirley Hooey, Carol's sister.

2005-02-16T22:15:00.000-08:00

John Durkin with Carol's sister, Jane, and brother, John.

2005-02-16T22:13:00.000-08:00

John Durkin and his siblings, likely in the 1980s.

2005-02-16T22:12:00.000-08:00

Happy Grampa Durkin

2005-02-16T22:11:00.000-08:00

Carol's parents, bracketing her brother John.

2005-02-16T22:10:00.000-08:00

The family car after Carol got done with it; her little brother John inspects the damage.

2005-02-16T22:08:00.000-08:00

Late 1970s picture of Jon in his hippie modality, probably at a JPUSA Memorial Day picnic.

2005-02-16T22:05:00.000-08:00

Eleanor (Carol's Mom) second from left in front row.

2005-02-16T22:04:00.000-08:00

The Durkin grandchildren, with Trott/Durkin children being on the ends of the back row. (Tabitha, Chris on left and Trevor, Tamzen on right.)

2005-02-16T22:01:00.000-08:00

Carol Elaine Trott's Mother and Father (in center) on their wedding day, February 12, 1945.

2005-02-16T21:58:00.000-08:00

Carol's father, John, is the one drinking the water pumped by a neighbor boy.

Carol's Mom & Dad: Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary

2005-02-16T21:44:00.000-08:00

Here are a few photos to celebrate sixty years of John and Eleanor Durkin's sixty year marriage. Carol and I just got back from helping to celebrate with the Durkin clan this February 12, 2005.