1998 Sheldon Annual Meeting Our 59th Sheldon Family Reunion SUFFIELD, CONNECTICUT JULY 24-25, 1998 BOARD MEETING, Thursday,  3 pm JULY 23rd FAMILY MEETING, Friday,  2 pm JULY 24th The family thanks Marge, Eleanor and Bob for a most wonderful 59th Reunion. The organization was superb! Rose designed our name badges and the programs. We had wonderful talks by Lester Smith, Bill Hosley, Carl E.Walter and Commander Sal Tarantino of the Sheldon's Horse. Honoring the Sheldon graves at the cemetery was easy because our hosts had marked each one, an effort that must have taken many hours of their time. Our cousin stood outside the gate displaying a beautifully restored WWII Jeep and its equipment, plus a similarly restored Model T Ford. Ah, memories of days gone by! The ladies and gentlemen of the church served a delicious lunch. We ate dinner to the sweet voice and music of our cousin, Elizabeth Moana Chang, who is known throughout the Hawaiian Islands as The Voice from the Deep Ocean. Two of our family members even managed to get lucky enough to win her newest CD. "He Leo'o Moana", as door prizes! Buses took us along Thomas Sheldon's canal and past the Congamon Lakes to see Newgate Prison where Thomas' father was--long ago--in charge. Many of us even made the descent into the old copper mine where the prisoners worked and where they were kept. Grim! We posed for pictures before a Sheldon home [S#46 Jonathan Sheldon] of the 1700's and toured it inside and out. Finally, we gathered in our usual circle clasping the hands of the Sheldons next to us and sang with Rose's voice to lead us. Then we were off to the winds again, all the while remembering what a grand job had been done by Marge. Sheldon Family Association, Quarterly, September, 1998, Vol 13, No.3, Bruce H. Robertson, Editor   http://www.sheldonfamily.org/98mtg.htm © Sheldon Family Association, 1999--2000 Rev. 29 August, 2005