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George and Ben Cassutto back from Israel
Tom Hartman made contact
Michiel Cassuto and family in Italian Dolomites

Westerbork

Leonore and Bas in Thailand
Irene en Rob on Voorhout
Canne and kids
George and Ben to Holocaust conference
Canne mails
Irene visits "grachtentuinen"
David Cassuto opens his store
brothers
Tina got best actress award
What is it to Be a Cassut(t)o? Hetty answers
Michiel Cassuto's goat and cheese making farm
Rogier Cassuto performing

Irene and Karels Roman Holiday
a real motorcycle fan
Ab Cassuto in his element
Geff goes on a hike
artist in Israel: Nir Cassuto
Rob Cassuto back from Roman holiday
David Cassuto Gzn reports
Dean and family
new house for Marloes and Rogier Cassuto



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George and Ben Cassutto back from Israel (Aug. medio)



George and Ben safely returned to the US after having attended the Holocaust Education Conference at the Yad Vashem Memorial Center and having presented there.
View the provisional photo page at George's Website
also George posted a first draft of his reflections on the conference and the Israel situation



view for the preparatory phase below

Tom Hartman made contact

Tom Hartman is the grandson of Anna Cassuto, sister to Ies Cassuto. In the pedigrees is mentioned: "Anna, 1876-1943, Auschwitz, only her daughter Dora, married to L.Hartmann, is still alive".
Tom remembered thar George Izn passed by when he was a kid and went with him to Rotterdam to view the rebuilding of the city after the war.
Some quotes from his mail:
(....)
Overigens kan ik mij George's fascinatie met de wederopbouw van Rotterdam heel goed voorstellen; ikzelf kwam er in die tijd niet veel maar volgde alles wel in Handelsblad en Parool. De stad moet in die tijd een onweerstaanbaar optimisme hebben uitgestraald iets dat in mijn woonplaats minder algemeen was.
Ja, ik had dus nog een broer en die heette Rob, voluit Robert Simon. Hij was jammer genoeg ernstig lichamelijk gehandicapt en tevens een erg lief kind. Hij werd geboren op 18 mei 1954 en overleed in oktober ' 76. De dag zal ik bij gelegenheid weer even opzoeken.

(.....)
O ja, mijn vader heette Laszlo Hartmann; de tweede n heeft hij in 1945 maar laten vallen; over hem zal ik je bij gelegenheid nog veel kunnen vertellen maar ook over Anna Cassuto; David de broer van je grootvader en over diens echtgenote tante Marie, een zeer leuk fris mens.
En over mijn moeder vanzelfsprekend, ze was nogal speciaal, geen kuddedier zogezegd.
Dan is er nog Felicia Naomi Hartman, inmiddels 28, een lange blonde dame. Ik heb haar grotendeels in mijn upje grootgebracht.
Ze geeft les in klassieke talen aan een christelijk gymnasium in Utrecht en studeerde in Leiden Grieks en Latijn en in Utrecht Keltisch. Ze speelt trompet, soms piano
en zingt jazz.
Voor dit moment sluit ik even af, groet, TOM


Aug. 15

Michiel Cassuto and family in Italian Dolomites



it's holiday time for the family:
Michiel, Marjan and Kim are back from their vacation in the Italian Dolomite mountains.
Picture above: the three on their two day hike. Picture below: Michiel after the heroic scaling of the Passo di Gavia. Aug. 10


Westerbork

Rob Cassuto and Minke payed a visit on July 30 to Westerbork in the Dutch province of Drenthe.
Westerbork was the transit camp, 'Durchgangslager', for the 102.00 Dutch Jews to be murdered in the death Camps.
Nowadays there is a memorial museum and the field of the barracks is now a memorial field, stangely picturesque and accentuated by the radiotelecopes in later times situated there.
Some pictures:



This sign was posted on the train cars headed for Polen



Here was the ramp from which every Tuesday, 1942- Sept. 1944, the train with a new load of Jews and Gypsies left for Auschwitz or Sobibor



The memorial of 102.000 little pillars on the ancient appel square. Together with the radiotelescope in the background this makes for a picture with a very strange, intangible import



The impressive memorial of the two rail bars of the original track of the Westerbork and eastward bound trains, the bars now ending in contorsion and pointing to the sky.
In the background a piece of reconstructed barbed wire fence and a radiotelescope of the world famous Westerbork radiotelescope system

Aug. 2

read Rob's column about the visit to Westerbork
view website Westerbork

Leonore and Bas in Thailand

Leonore Cassuto mailed some holiday pictures: "Hoi Rob, Alles goed? Ook aan het genieten van het mooie weer.
Hierbij de beloofde foto’s van onze vakantie naar Thailand. Inmiddels zijn we helaas al weer 3 weken terug in Nederland,
Maar over 3 weken gaan we nog een weekje naar Malaga. Hier zullen we ook nog een paar mooie foto’s maken en weer naar jou mailen. Heel veel groetjes en liefs Bas en Leonore."
"Hi Rob, everything OK? Also enjoying the nice weather?
Here the promised pics of our holiday in Thailand. We 're back already 3 weeks, but in 3 weeks we're going to Malaga for a week and there we're gonna make some nice pics too and mail them to you. Love Bas and Leonore"

For larger pic of the elephant en more Thailand pics
click on the golden guardian


Aug. 2

Irene and Rob on Voorhout Avenue, The Hague

Irene and Rob on the Voorhout om The Hague city center. This was on the day of the opening of David Cassuto's new shop, June 17.
On the Voorhout was a sculpture exhibition, of which one specimen is visible behind us.
Karel made the picture and sent it today.

A report of the opening of the shop and the sculptures in the city center is to be found
here

July 29 '04

Canne and kids in a nice line

Lieve Rob, finally a good picture of all of us at Gabe Cassutto's 9th birthday party. We had a great time swimming at his local pool in Frederick, Md. Left to right in the pic are Andy, Tina's boyfriend, Tina, me and the hiker Geff. His hair had gotten longer and gained 10 pounds. So our summer fun has begun. To let everyone know what's happening with me, I'm working this summer in a really nice jewelry store. It's fun work and I'm learning alot. I'll quit there a week before I start the school job so I can at least have some kind of vacation. Veel liefs, Canne

some other pitures of Gabe's birthday:



Gabe with present; Gabe with Grace

July '04

George and Ben Cassutto to attend Holocaust Educators Conference in Jerusalem

George Cassutto, social sciences lead teacher at Harmony Intermediate School,
will attend the Fourth Annual Conference on Holocaust Education this summer in August.. He has been invited to speak at the conference, located at the Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem.
From George's mail: the conference is on educating future generations on the Holocaust. When I looked over the topics the conference suggested, I decided to develop a presentation on one of the suggested topics, that is the use of the Internet in Holocaust Education. Anti-semitism would be part of my discussion, but only insofar as it relates to the use of the Internet to communicate ideas of acceptance and understanding, thereby preventing future genocides.

Twin brother Ben is accompanying George.
He will be discussing the role of faith in the decision to rescue Jews.
He will also discuss the impact of the Holocaust on the religious beliefs of survivors. It should be a very interesting talk.

We have purchased our plane tickets and are waiting now for the day to arrive. I will be focusing on my kids as they come to live with me for the summer months. Teresa will be caring for them in my absence during the trip (Aug 6-14).

View the press release from George's school in Loudoun County
View de Holocaust educators conference site
View the homepage of George

Also an article in the Loudoun Times-Mirror appeared, giving a clear cut picture of George's teaching about the Holocaust to his pupils.

update:

Hello from Jerusalem.

I am being timed on this kiosk, so it's gotta be quick. We had a great flight, but got only 2 hrs sleep. It looks like I won't be able to keep an internet log, but I will be journaling on my PC and by hand, so it will all go up at some point, just not in real time. The country and the people are beautiful. We are still getting acclimated to our surroundings. We'll see the Yad Vashem museum tomorrow as the conference gets underway. I present Tuesday and Ben wednesday. Our taxi ride from the airport took two hours! We were the last to be dropped off, but we're refreshed now.
I hope to send more when it's possible. Internet access is expensive and scarce.

I love and miss you all! George Aug. 8

(...)

I have a moment here at Yad Vashem museum to say hello. I can also attach my favorite picture so far. It's a chasidic Jew praying at the Western Wall, which we visited at night.

We hope to go back Thursday during the day to see the wall and the Dome of the Rock in the daylight. We also hope to walk the Via Dela Rosa (sp?)* which is the path of Christ to the cross, on Thurs.
We have had an excellent conference. I did my talk to a handful, and Ben speaks in about 2 hours.
We have been generating all kinds of controversey among the conferees, too much to discuss here.
Our friends at the hotel have been great, and the country of Israel is gorgeous (I may have said that before).
Today is the first cloudy day since we arrived.
I'll be putting pics on line when I return so you can see them at your leisure.
I am at 208 on digicam right now. Not all of those are good, but most are or they have a story behind them, so those of you who are close by I ask your indulgence.

The coolest thing so far is that the museum here at Yad Vashem approached me and handed me documents on the death of my grandfather (mother's side) and of my dad's fiancee, named Hetty.
Apparently, other relatives submitted documentation that showed Hetty died in Chelmno, not Auchwitz as previously believed.
Also, there are Rodrigueses in Australia who documented Abraham's death (grandfather).
Their entire database of victims, all 3,000,000 documented so far, will go live on their website in Dec.
Also, Ben found a tree planed in the name of Tante Grie (Aunt Grace), who his mom.
I hope to get a pic for the Cassutto Memorial Pages.

Ben called our cousin David Cassuto here in Israel, and we plan on having dinner with him Friday for Sabbath. I was also told by the conference director that our name is highly respected in Jerusalem society.
I even found the name of Professor Umberto Cassuto** on a display at the Israeli Museum on the Dead Sea scrolls. I took illegal pictures of his work, his name, and of the scrolls. Don't tell the museum :-)
(...)
Aug. 11

*The spelling is: Via Dolorosa, which is Latin and means: way of grief
**see for Umberto, his son Nathan and grandson David Cassuto the Cassuto name page

Canne mails

Canne mails:
Lieve Rob, the pictures of young Oma are so amazing. I see myself in her. I'm so glad I was named after her (kind of). In '78 when I was staying with Oom George for Irene's wedding, he showed me a picture of Oma with braied hair. It must have been around the same time as Oma at 11. I was astounded that I looked so much like her when I was that age. I wonder if you have it. As far as I can see that picture I have not, but this one looks like you too, isn't it?
click on the picture for enlargement ››


Big news about Geff. He's home safe and sound. I'd like to take a picture of him to send you because he looks a little different. He's tan and heavier with a longer hair. It's nice to have him around but he needs to find a new job soon. Tina is now working at the the same grocery store that Geff did and it she's glad she's earning her own money.
That's all for now. Veel liefs ,Canne
I look forward to Geff's picture. see for his trip below

Irene visits "grachtentuinen", gardens in the Amsterdam Canal quarter

english summary:

Dear All,
Friday June 18 I visited with the Garden Club ladies the Open Garden Days in Amsterdam. Once a year the gardens in the Amsterdam Canal quarter are open for the public. Amazing is how you land in an oasis of quiet in such a hectic town as Amsterdam is.
In the 17th age, the Golden age many rich merchants built beautiful mansions at the canals which had to reflect their wealth and status. The gardens were an extension of this and were very luxurious.
Most of these houses are now office, bank or museum.
One of them is already for ages the official residence of the mayor (now mr. Job Cohen).
Of many a house only the historic facade is kept and behind it a new modern building is constructed, surprise! Very nice to see the interior of the houses when you walk through them to the gardens.
Though many a garden has been turned into a parking lot, luckily many are preserved, some in their old state, some in a modern condition.
A foundation, the "Stichting de Amsterdamse Grachtentuin" , stimulates and supports restauration of the gardens in their original state. Ageold trees, buxus hedges, flower beds, statues, fountains and sometimes a summer house are to be found in the gardens. And as a consequence many birds, butterflies and frogs are attracted to the flowers and the plants. Good work of the foundation to preserve this garden culture for not only now but also for future generations, we all agreed.

your Sweet Lake City correspondent Irene

Dutch:

Lieve Allemaal

Vrijdag 18 juni heb ik met de dames van mijn tuinclub, Flowerpower, de open tuin dagen in Amsterdam bezocht. Het thema dit jaar was :"de Amsterdamse tuin bloeit".
Slechts een keer per jaar zijn de grachtentuinen opengesteld voor het publiek en zijn de tuinen te bezichtigen. Als bezoeker verbaas je je dat je van de drukke en hectische stad die A'dam is, terecht komt in een groene oase van rust

below left: garden of Irene, above one of the grachtentuinen at the Keizersgracht.
Click on the pics for enlargement.



In de 17e eeuw, de" gouden eeuw", zijn er door rijke kooplui aan de grachten veel mooie panden neergezet. Deze panden met hun veelal kostbare inrichtingen, moesten de welstand van de bewoners tonen en konden natuurlijk het bezoek imponeren.
De tuinen waren verlengstukken van het huis en waren weelderig ingericht, zodat men zich in de tuin kon verpozen en er kon flaneren. Van deze lusthoven zijn de meesten nu in gebruik als bank, kantoor of musea.
Een van de historisch panden is al eeuwenlang de ambtswoning van de burgemeester die er in zijn ambtsperiode ook woont.
Van menig huis is alleen de historische gevel nog blijven staan, erachter vind je dan een hypermodern gebouw, een onverwachte verrassing!
Een enkel pand is in bezit van een particulier.
Je loopt dan via de gang en de keuken zo door naar de tuin, erg leuk te zien hoe die huizen er van binnen uitzien.
Veelal zijn de tuinen helaas veranderd in parkeerterreinen. Gelukkig zijn er ook nog tuinen bewaard gebleven, al dan niet in oude staat. De tendens van deze tijd is gelukkig de tuinen zoveel mogelijk te behouden en/of in oude luister te herstellen.

Daartoe is de stichting :"de Amsterdamse grachtentuin" opgericht.
De tuinen kenmerken zich in het algemeen door eeuwenoude bomen, die dan ook als natuurmonument erkend worden. Verder zijn er veel buxushaagjes met bloemperken, beelden, fonteinen en is er soms zelfs een prieeltje te zien. Het spreekt vanzelf dat op de bloemen, planten en het water veel vogels, vlinders en kikkers afkomen.
Na afloop van onze bezoeken, waren we het er allemaal over eens dat de Stichting er alles aan doet om deze tuincultuur niet alleen voor nu , maar ook voor de volgende generatie wil bewaren.

Groetjes van uw Zoetermeerse correspondent, Irene

June '04

David Cassuto opens his store

Thursday June 17 David opens his "independent design store"
&David.
David already informed us of his plans:

"I have left my job at Casema, the cable company, at the end of January
to start my own business.
I want to start a shop in The Hague that sells furniture, lighting and other stuff for the home.
I want to order production of Dutch and other design in a limited production in lower labor cost country Romania and sell these also in my shop and on to other retailers.
"

And now is the moment.
The store is in The Hague, Noordeinde 146
2514 GP Den Haag, Netherlands.



You can call him there by phone: +31 (0)70 3560402, Fax +31 (0)70 3925887, mobil phone +31 (0)6 11310508
A website will be launched also: www.endavid.nl


Good Luck, David, with your courageous initiative!





In the meantime the opening has been taken place.
A report is to be found here

brothers

Hetty sent two old pics, one of Max, Ernest and George 1966.
Pay a nostalgic visit to 1966 and click on the pic.

Tina got best actress award

Last week Tina's high school drama club held it's Tony Awards banquet. It's like the Broadway Tony's because the drama club members vote for best actor and actress for the two school productions put on that year. Tina was nominated for best actress for both a drama and musical production. She won and I was glad I was there to see her accept the trophy. Here are a few pictures of that evening.

Canne, June 5 '04


view in the archive the previous acts to this beautifull result; Tina played Anne Frank in the school production of the well known play made after the diary.









What is it to Be a "Cassut(t)o"... That's the theme of the poem sent by Hetty
I think it is a witty approach to our family peculiarities, but Hetty is a bit worried someone in the family may be offended. Read it and give your feedback! It begins like this:


To hear your spouse say-you hope it's in jest-
"You are such a "Cassutto!!"-"don't be a pest!"
What is it that they may be saying?
are they frustrated, or are they just playing?

There probably is something we all have in common..

continue reading

Michiel Cassuto's goat and cheese making farm

Michiel Cassuto makes various kinds of goat cheese on his farm called Capricas, also the brand of his product: Capricas goat cheese. All cheeses are real farmers cheese, produced on the farm of raw milk; nothing is added or distracted. The taste of the cheeses is realized by herbs. But if so desired you may also buy natural cheese without herbs.

Every Saturday between 10.00 en 16.00 o'clock you are welcome to take a look, to taste or to buy .
Capricas, Kernhemseweg 6, 6718 ZB Ede
Telephone/ fax 0318 - 611255 (Netherlands is: 0031)
e-mail: capracassuto@wolmail.nl

Michiel mailed in answer to my asking how he and the family is doing:

Met ons gaat alles erg goed, Kim is bezig met haar laatste weken van de basisschool, ze oefenen nu voor de musical die ze met groep 8 gaan opvoeren voor de school en de ouders. De musical is geschreven door Kim van Kooten, muziek van Hennie Vrienten. We gaan binnenkort weer een boerderij bekijken in de Vosges. De boerderij licht naast St. Dié in het dal. Het is een boerderij met veertig melkkoeien en honderd vijftien hectares grond. Er zijn twee woonhuizen. Eentje om in te wonen en de andere voor de verhuur mischien. Het komt vrij in het voorjaar van 2005. Erg spannend allemaal.
groetjes, Michiel

English summary: We 're doing very well. Daughter Kim is in het last months of primary school and she 's rehearsing for a musical written by Kim van Kooten (well known Dutch movie actress and movie maker) and music by Henny Vrienten (equally well known composer, especially for movies). Shortly we 're going to view a farm in the Vosges, in a valley near St. Dié, a farm with 40 diary cows and 110 hectare of land and 2 houses.
It comes to be vacant in spring 2005. It's all thrilling! Greetings from Michiel.


Past endeavours to buy a farm in France, see a previous message of Michiel

Michiels website may be viewed by clicking here

Some pics of Michiel and family

Rogier Cassuto performing

nice pic of Rogier in the heat of his singing performance; I understand his group is doing fairly well.June 1 ' 04

Rogier answered my questions:
The name of my band is: "Goed Gejat" (something like: "deftly pinched"), www.goedgejat.nl
here is our "promo"!

Onder het motto 'leve de lol' richtten 5 enthousiaste muzikanten in 2002 een bandje op dat plezier in de muziek als enige doel had.
Inmiddels is GoedGejat een hartstikke leuke band geworden, die het plezier door haar muziekkeuze en performance ook uitstekend overbrengt.
Variatie in het goedgejatte repertoire is het sleutelwoord. Iedereen komt aan zijn trekken. Van Di-rect tot Frans Bauer, van Frank Boeijen tot REM, Van De Dijk tot Robbie Williams: alle artiesten en stijlen komen aan bod.Herkenning van recente hits en die uit een wat verder verleden, vormt de sleutel tot een onvergetelijke avond, waarbij niet alleen de band uit zijn dak gaat...
Immers, als je feest wilt zit niemand te wachten op gekunstelde moeilijke loopjes van freakende gitaristen. Nee toch? Je wilt GoedGejat in plaats van slecht verzonnen!
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English
:
under the slogan "long live the fun" 5 enthousiastic musicians started a band with only one aim, to enjoy playing.
In the meantime "Goed Gejat" has grown into a terrific band which succeeds in transferring the fun in its performance and by a good selection of numbers.
Variation in the "well pinched" repertoir is the key. There 's something in it for everyone.
From "Di-rect" to Frans Bauer, from Frank Boeijen to REM, from "The Dijk" to Robbie Williams: all artist and styles have their share in our repertoir.
Recent hits and oldies you will recognize and all this makes for an unforgettable evening in which not only the band goes crazy...
For if you want to party who needs the artificial and difficult licks of freaking guitar players; do you? You prefer GoedGejat - "Deftly pinched" - to "slecht verzonnen" - badly made up!
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Met Marloes gaat alles goed ze is Maandag op haar nieuwe baan begonnen als medewerker afdoening & voorlichting bij bureau Halt Haaglanden.
Het huis bevalt prima en ik (en Marloes) verheugen ons erop je een keertje te mogen ontvangen in onze nieuwe stulp!

Als er nieuwe foto's van het huis zijn zal ik ze je toesturen!

Marloes is OK , she started with her new job at the bureau Halt Haaglanden.
We enjoy the new house en me (and Marloes) look forward to welcoming you in our new shack!
As soon as there are pics of the new house we 'll forward them!

June 3

*RobC: but just today I stumbled upon a saying by Melville: 'it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation', what to make of that.....

Karel and Irene's Roman Holiday



Irene van Zwol-Cassuto writes about her holiday with Karel near Rome:

summary in English: dear family after a hectic and sorrowfull year of parting with both parents of Karel at last taking some distance, holiday in the Lazio region around Rome.
We hired a car, very convenient.
We visited the treasures and tombs of the Etruscans, this mysterious people, teachers of the Romans, who suppressed them later.
Also we visited Ostia Antica, which gives a good impressions of ancient Roman commerce and way of living.
Out hotel was just outside of Rome, in the green hills. Two days in Rome, too short...
Fascinating, but expensive city in all aspects, 9 dollar for two coffee!
The weather was too cold and rainy......read the whole story and view more pictures

May 16

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a real motorcycle fan


Hetty discloses her husband Jim is a genuine motorcycle fan; she mails:
"This weekend Jim, his brother Jack and a few friends are off to the speedraces at the Indianapolis 500. They go there every year with a big camper. This year, they are taking their Harley Davidson motorcycles along via a trailer hooked to the back of the camper.
Jim chose his 1965 ElectraGlide ( in red.. not blue ( like the old 60s Movie..)(foto attached) as the one to ride for the trip. His brother has a 'chopper'. "










Hetty adds for the real motofans:
By the way, Jim is not a recent Harley fan. He bought his first one in 1973... a 1962 one. I found a foto of that motorcycle in an old foto album.( see old foto, left) He had a bad accident in 1975 and broke his arm in 3 places when Calvin was just a baby. So after he had it repaired, he sold it to a guy in the navy who took it back to San Fransisco with him.
He has wanted another one ever since.
Here is a foto of his brother's 'chopper' too, for all of you 'radical' motorcycle fans (above left).

Now that Jim can afford them and no longer has two children at home who depend on him ( just a wife..) he bought the 1965 motorcycle two years ago and had it completely restored. Then, since that was not enough,
he bought the 2003 100th anniversary edition, then found a rare 1971 "Evel Knievel" style motorcycle that was in good shape but was painted all in black. He just recently had that one chromed and repainted in the correct paint colors ( white, red and blue, above right) and it is now better looking than the one on display in the Harley Davidson dealership.
"Easy Rider" was one of Jim's favorite movies when we were first married. Ah, the memories.

May 30 '04

Ab Cassuto in his element (is this also an English expression?...)

Ab mailed, that the colonscopy he had to go through turned out well. ( there is in the Cassuto family a hereditary disposition for intestine cancer). Further monitoring is necessary though, at short notice an intestine photo and in february a further colonscopy (this time with anaesthetics! the last time was very painfull...)
But now for something else: Ab sent a picture of him standing behind the bar of
"The Boerderij" ("The farm"), the giant disco in Zoetermeer ("Sweet Lake City"). As you know probably Ab has four hobby's:
1. being a volunteer bartender at The Boerderij.
2. pop music and collecting CD's and DVD's on this subject
3. seeing and collecting Movies
4. playing guitar
Ab, please correct me if my list is incomplete or has rhe wrong order....
(I see Ab in my minds eye later doing a pop music program for the local Zoetermeer radio)





Ab behind the bar at the Zoetermeer disco "The Boerderij"

May 13 '04

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Geff goes on a hike


Canne Cassutto mailed on May 1:
Today my son Geff and his best friend Ken will be starting their journey on self discovery by back backing through the Appalachian trail which starts about an hour from my house.
Since the trail lies so close to George's, I'm driving the boys over to George's where we'll talk a minute and then George is taking them to the beginning of the trail where the hike begins.

They will be hiking a long time and plan to end up Georgia. From there (if they make it) they will take a bus out to Santa Cruz, California and stay with friends out there for a while.
Does it sound like something you might have done when you were 18?
He wants to mature into manhood by making this trip on his own without the assistants of adults except for me driving them out to the trail. I'm not too sure how they will let us know how they're doing except that they want to find libraries in towns and journal online from time to time.

Canne sent this picture on May 3 and wrote:
this picture was taken yesterday as the boys began their hiking trip. George was such a big help taking them to Harper's Ferry in West Virginia to begin. Can you put this on the web site so everyone will know what Geff is doing this summer?


So here are the boys on the threshhold of a big adventure.

I hope we will get some news about how they are doing from time to time!

May the Eternal One keep them from danger and may He let them reach their destination.

Should I leave on the wings of dawn,
or should I set out for the end of the sea
also there Your hand would lead me
and Your right hand would hold me
Psalm 139-9


UPDATE May 14: in the meantime Geff and his friends are leading an adventurous life, part of telephone conversation between him and Marilyn:
.......
>CEOLxMOR: but we're staying at this awesome amish guys hostel soon
>CEOLxMOR: he plays old music
>LynneChrys: how old is old
>CEOLxMOR: we might go to church with him and check it out
>CEOLxMOR: sixty somethihng
>LynneChrys: oh wow
>CEOLxMOR: fairly up there
>CEOLxMOR: "rusty's hard time holler"
>LynneChrys: yea, where did you meet him
>CEOLxMOR: well we've heard about him all over the trail, and today we were
>just sittin' on the street playing guitar and he pulls up and says "you guys
>look like hikers" and it was rusty
>CEOLxMOR: he advertises his place a lot
>LynneChrys: sounds good
>CEOLxMOR: he's never had a phone in his home his whole life
>LynneChrys: wow
>LynneChrys: does he have a wife, kids?
>CEOLxMOR: i think
>CEOLxMOR: not sure actually
>LynneChrys: did you phone home lately?
>CEOLxMOR: a few days ago
>CEOLxMOR: my phones cards ran out, i guess i can call collect
>LynneChrys: well, I'll tell your mom you're alive and well
>CEOLxMOR: ok, i think ill call tonight
>CEOLxMOR: we played honky tonk with some guy we met today
>LynneChrys: you mean, played it on your guitar?
>CEOLxMOR: yeah, he played us some lefty frizzell and johnny cash
>CEOLxMOR: and we played him some original stuff, he seemed to like it
>LynneChrys: so, everyone seems nice and friendly, huh?
>CEOLxMOR: yeah
>CEOLxMOR: but of course, we have our guard up
>CEOLxMOR: etc.
>LynneChrys: right, you never know who's out there
>CEOLxMOR: yeah
>LynneChrys: ok, I'm glad you're doing well
>CEOLxMOR: good to talk to you
>CEOLxMOR: me and kenny are entering a talent show at that festival
>LynneChrys: oh wow
>LynneChrys: that sounds like fun. Is there a prize?
>CEOLxMOR: theres going to be 6000 people there according to rusty
>CEOLxMOR: i dunno
>CEOLxMOR: and a million cops
>LynneChrys: wow. Wish it could be videotaped
>CEOLxMOR: yeah
>CEOLxMOR: we're going to win
>LynneChrys: you could be the hiker's American Idol
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Cassuto artist in Israel: Nir Cassuto

On the internet I came upon the website of an Israeli graphic studio and on a page with cooperating illustrators I saw the pictures of Nir Cassuto.

He was so kind as to answer my mailed questions to tell something about himself and her work:

read his answer on the specials page

Rob Cassuto back from Roman Holiday

I 'm back from my visit with Minke to Rome and I wrote a column about some impressions the city and its treasures made upon me:

Rome

an impression of the eternal city

It's the beginning of april.A smooth rain is falling on the streets and the majestic facades of Rome.
Now and then a scarce sun ray peeps through but more then once the drizzle gives away to a genuine shower. Our visit to the Eternal City gradually transformed in a survival trip.Donned with rain jacks we roam the always crowded streets, manoeuvring between the endless flow of cars, busses and scooters to cross over.

More than once we had to press ourselves around peak hours into overcrowded busses and subway cars, where we had to stand half choking between silent Romans from work on their way home and used to this kind of suffering.

But luckily there were the refuges of the churches and the museums--.

read the rest of this story

view Rob looking over the river Tiber

more holiday pictures



april 21 2004

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David Cassuto Gzn reports:

Dear all,
In order tot contribute to the family forum and inform you of my doings here is my first entry in our virtual togetherness
.

how I live
I am still living in The Hague and currently a bachelor.
I am still renting two floors as I only need one floor in my house for myself.
I am on the third floor, on the second is an Italian guy whose name is (of course) Marco,
he works for the European Patent Organization.
On the fourth floor is Agnes, a 24 year old nurse (with boyfriend don't worry:.) which is always useful to have around.

work: business project
I have left my job at Casema, the cable company, at the end of January
to start my own business.
I want to start a shop in The Hague that sells furniture, lighting and other stuff for the home.
I want to order production of Dutch and other design in a limited production in lower labor cost country Romania and sell these also in my shop and on to other retailers.

Romania!
I have been to Romania already three times. It is a world away from Western Europe in economic and political development and for sound business communication I might as well have gone to Mars but that is part of the challenge.

shop
The last month I have been trying to rent a shop in the centre of the Hague on the Prinsestraat. However, the owner got in trouble and the place itself is now squatted, so things are slowing down. I really think the location is perfect, though so I am going to hold on on little longer and I hope I'll be hearing more of this next week.

UPDATE': David succeeded in renting a shop at the Noordeinde. He will open the shop in the course of June and he promised to keep us posted! (RobC May 9)

my mother
Next week on Saturdaynight Michiel Marjan, Kim, Carine and I will be in Bunnik to celebrate my Mother's birthday (actually the 21st).
She will turn 71 and she still doesn't have to dye her hair is that not strange?
On the other hand she is in fact very very vital and still has a busier agenda than most of us working people!

for pictures mother Hanneke, Michiel, Marian, Kim, Carien and David click on the image››


terrorists
Al Qaeda involvement in the Madrid bombings is getting likelier every hour.
I don't expect the supporters of George Bush's foreign policy to change their position in view of this kind of terrorism but the fact is that we all still live in countries that have supported the US on Iraq and other occassions.
I make no illusions about complete safety in an international city like The Hague but it won't change my daily life.

music
On another note: For all u music lovers out there you should know that I am a great admirer of
The Rasmus, a Finish band that is currently conquering Europe with a blast.
Via the link I put below you will find a German page with two of their best songs, In the Shadows and First Day of My life.
If you either like the Beatles or Nirvana you should want to hear this. Not limited by any identification with a trend or style I also like The Black Eyed Peas and some Gothic music by the Dutch band Within Temptation and the US-band Evanescence.


http://www.motor.de/_kuenstlerseiten/_rasmus/index_v.html


respond to david

april '04

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Dean Chryssovergis and family
Recent picture of Lynne's son Dean (right).
It was taken at his work, Fox News, and he is posing with a member of the New Jersey Devils hockey team, Ken Danyko. The Ice Hockey
Stanley Cup is between them.

I , (RobC)asked Dean some questions which he kindly answered: "I have been working at FOX News Channel in New York City for about two years now. My official title is "Production Assistant" which is the typical position for a college graduate.
Right now, I mostly cut or edit or log video footage... Any footage that goes on air that is not the anchors speaking has gone through me. I also do other things like prepare graphics or deliver scripts to anchors/directors. I specifically work for the show "FOX and Friends" ...which is the channel's morning show. (which means that I have to work the overnight shift, also)

I can not say that I am a huge fan of hockey, but taking your picture with the Stanley Cup is an honor. Also, the hockey player in the picture is a player from the New Jersey team, he retired this year, so it makes the picture more valuable.

My greek nickname is Kosta. No one in America calls me that really, exceot for a few people. I like it though. Other than my Greek family, the only people I remember calling me that were Uncle Max, George and Opa"
More about Dean? Visit his "spot on the web"

Below a picture of the chryssovergis family,
from left to right Dean, Marilyn Cassutto-Chryssovergis and Alex.
Marilyn mails:

"For the last 4 years, Alex has been working for a catering business, which delivers lunches to offices having business meetings. This is a better position from the restaurant work he has done in the past, which can be long hours, with no break on weekends and holidays. At present, he works from early in the morning until 3 or 4pm, without having to work weekends or holidays. We are very grateful that he has found such a position.

For the past 20 years I have done office work in accounting. I have been at my current company, a metal distributor, since April 2002. The office is located 4 minutes driving from home, and so I can even walk there if necessary.

In June 2004, Alex and I will reach the 30 year mark of our wedding, and so we are very grateful to God for His many blessings! We attribute the strength of our relationship to our shared faith in God."

(for an enlarged format of the three Chryssovergis' click on the picture)

P.S. Chryssovergis is a Greek name and literally translated means: golden rod, Dutch: Gouden staaf)

Rogier and Marloes Cassuto to move in new house

Rogier writes: "good idea to put it on the family site
(so I can spare a whole lotta cards and I forget no one!)
The new address:

Oliver Hardeystrook 27
2726 TX Zoetermeer
Netherlands

Certainly a house warming party is intended,
only the precise date is not yet possible to give
There is still a lot to be done and
we estimate to be able to move in about 6 weeks"

Marloes mails:
"After all we have conquered a little house.
It is a small one family house wirhout an attic, but big enough for us.
Each of us has a large sleeping room and besides a small room for all kind of personal stuff.
The housing organisation will install a new kitchen and we 'll have to wait for that but in the meantime we are busy painting.
Fortunately Rogier and I have about the same taste so there 's no need for quarrelling, hahaha.
I suppose in the course of spring we 'll give a house warming party,
so I 'll send you an invitation then."

Good luck, Marloes and Rogier (fot the more distant visitor: they are brother and sister)
and don't forget to send a picture of the new house!

March '04

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