Great Places to Go for Family Reunions. Whether youre aiming to hole up with siblings for a low key retreat into childhood reminiscence or to invite every cousin thrice removed to a tightly scheduled celebration of shared ancestry, organizing family reunions isnt as daunting as it sounds. THE DEATON FAMILYTimberlock Resort, Indian Lake, New York. The last time that Jackie and Paul Deaton brought together their five children, plus children in law, plus 1. Jackie and Paul playing host. The National Wildlife Federations family of magazines include National Wildlife, Ranger Rick, Ranger Rick Jr., and Ranger Rick Cub. Archives and past articles from the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly. The Castro Theatre is San Franciscos Historic Movie Palace. Sierra Generations Family Tree For Kids' title='Sierra Generations Family Tree For Kids' />One wall at a time. OUR MISSION Wall Decal Sources Company objective is to be one of the worlds leading producers and providers of safe, high quality, and. Little Red Tree House on the Little Red River on 8 Private Acres with Large Dock. Have you ever been to a place at night where the stars were so close yo. The seniors were just a little bit preoccupied with minutiae such as which grandchild was about to sully his photogenic outfit. So when the three Deaton generations reunited last year, they congregated at an unpretentious, 2. Adirondacks camp called Timberlock 5. JuneSept. 8. 024. Oct. May www. timberlock. They rented six gaslit cabins for a week on the undeveloped shores of Indian Lake. The Deatons hiked along cliffs near a bear cave, paddled canoes around the lakes loons, and held storytelling sessions by the camps nightly fires. Any Deaton seeking privacy could retreat to the well spaced cabins, and yet Timberlocks one seating meals guaranteed face time even from teenagers. After the groups last dinner, Jackie and Paul received a surprise souvenir an oar that their offspring had carved in Timberlocks woodshop and then all signedan ideal tribute, Jackie notes, to a week of kinship and splinters by the lake. THE FOUCHER LEWIS FAMILYEdgard, Louisiana. The Foucher Lewis clan of Louisiana traces its ancestry to an unusual antebellum couple the Foucher part of the name belonged to a white plantation owner, a widow, who fell in love with a slave she owned, named Joseph Lewis. The couple kept their children a secret from the neighborsthe kids were sent to play out back in the slaves quarters whenever anyone stopped by. HR0cDovL3d3dy50b3B0ZW5yZXZpZXdzLmNvbS9pL3Jldi9zY3JuL2xhcmdlLzUyMzE5LWZhbWlseS10cmVlLW1ha2VyMTguanBn' alt='Sierra Generations Family Tree For Kids' title='Sierra Generations Family Tree For Kids' />Not even the pairs descendants knew much about their heritageuntil last summer, when they held their first reunion. The events main organizer, Betty Lewis Carter, a great granddaughter of the widow and the slave, told the family story to about 2. Theyd just feasted on crawfish, crabs, shrimp, and corn in a field near where the plantation once stood cousins still own property in the area. She and her fellow organizers had kept the party arrangements as simple as possible. They rented some equipment, including a tent and a space walk. But the supplies and labor came largely from volunteers cousins and friends living nearby prepared and served the food, provided a trampoline, cleaned up afterward, housed out of town guests for the night, and sheltered all the partygoers after dusk, when the Louisiana mosquitoes arrived. Winning Eleven 2009 Ps2 Iso on this page. Throughout the festivities, Lewis Carter pumped the attendees for more names and phone numbers of relatives to invite to the next reunion, scheduled for this year. Were going to keep networking and networking from here, she says. This is something we should have started doing long ago. THE LUNG FAMILYSnow Mountain Ranch, Winter Park, Colorado. By gathering every few years since 1. Lung family, descendants of Chinese emigrants to the United States in 1. Well over a year in advance, the designated point person starts announcing dates, locales, and per head costs in the semiannual family newsletter. Last summer, nearly 1. Snow Mountain Ranch in Colorado 9. Run by the YMCA of the Rockies, this lodge and cabin complex offers rugged charmsraw timber porches, 5,1. The weekends program was meant to appeal to all personality types. Thrill seekers blasted at each other in laser tag matches and rode a 6. Lung family milestonesbirths, graduations, marriages, deathsdating back to the years in China. At the Saturday night banquet, family members demonstrated talents ranging from Chinese folk storytelling to yo yo rolling to break dancing. The storyteller, a. Cousin Ed, is also the family historian, and he helped unite the weekends varied strains by designing T shirts for everyone. Theyre printed with his drawing of a golden dragonthe reunion took place in the Chinese year of the golden dragon, which comes around only once every six decades. The creature symbolizes, fittingly, the sharing of good fortune. GREAT PLACES FOR A FAMILY REUNION IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE CARIBBEANAll of these resorts have room for several generations to spread out comfortably, as well as attractions on site or nearby that appeal to varying age groups. Almost all also have meeting or dining rooms that your clan can take over. Word of advice If your group is big, try bargaining for a better rate. Alaska. Denali National Park Wilderness Centers. Denali National Park 9. THE SETUP A 1. 7 room lodge and 1. Arctic national park. WHO TO BRING Kinfolk wholl appreciate wildlife dramas such as grizzlies tussling and caribous calving, meals of Arctic grayling and tundra grown blueberries, and glimpses of Mount Mc. Kinley from just about every vantage, including the peepholes cut into the doors of the privies out back. Arizona. Enchantment Resort. Sedona 8. 008. 26 4. THE SETUP A scattering of casitas and haciendas with a total capacity of 9. Native American legend, mankind was first born. GET WITH THE SPIRIT Hear fireside retellings of regional myths, performed on weekend evenings by a member of the Havasupai tribe. By day, send the kids to carve kachina dolls in the Camp Coyote program, while adults forget old squabbles beneath Anasazi Herbal Sweat Wraps at a new adobe spa. California. Alisal Guest Ranch Resort Solvang 8. THE SETUP A 1. 0,0. TV free cottages. WAYS TO REVEL IN FAMILIAL LOVE Help each other cross over snags on a mountainside ropes course. Take lessons in country line dancing, or adopt a burro at the petting zoo, collaborating on its feeding and grooming. Individualists, meanwhile, can sail solo around a 1. GOOD DEAL Asilomar Conference Grounds. Pacific Grove 8. THE SETUP Twenty eight shingle and fieldstone lodges along a mile of white quartz dunes, built as a YWCA retreat in the 1. REENACT CHILDHOOD Assemble your siblings under a single homey roof againthe lodges hold from three to 5. Reminisce about summer camp in the dining hall, and at the beach, reflect on natures own strong family tiesa monogamous shorebird called the black oystercatcher can often be seen training its offspring in the art of shellfish shucking. Sorensens Resort Hope Valley, Calif. THE SETUP Once a shepherds summer grazing outpost, now 3. Norwegian granary. BUILD MUSCLE MASS TOGETHER In the winter, snowshoes, sleds, and cross country skis are recommended gear at Sorensens and at the nearby Lake Tahoe resorts. In summer, hike the unpopulated Sierra Nevada barely a person per square mile lives in this county and pay homage to brave pioneer familiesthe trails still bear gouges from Conestoga wheels. Colorado. GOOD DEAL Blue Lake Ranch Hesperus 8. THE SETUP A 1. 91. Victorian to Navajo. LEARN ABOUT LAND STEWARDSHIP Ask the owners how they nurtured the property from a cattle pasture into oak and pion groves, berry patches, and riotous flowerbeds. Before your morning hike into the Plata Mountains, tuck into Norwegian French toast casserole with the ranchs own blackberry rhubarb jam. Vista Verde Ranch Steamboat Springs 8. THE SETUP A lodge and a dozen log cabins, all with woodstoves and hot tubs, for a ranch wide capacity of about 4. CHANGE ELEVATIONS OFTEN From this 7,8. Continental Divide in hot air balloons year round. Home Ranch. Clark, Colo. No children under six allowed. There were many different types of American Indian houses in North America. Each tribe needed a kind of housing that would fit their lifestyle and their climate. Sponsored Links. Since North America is such a big continent, different tribes had very different. In the Arizona deserts, temperatures can hit 1. Fahrenheit, and in the Alaskan tundra, 5. Naturally, Native Americans. Also. different American Indian tribes had different traditional lifestyles. Some tribes were. They wanted houses that would last a long time. Other tribes were more nomadic, moving frequently from place. They. needed houses that were portable or easy to build. Here are descriptions and pictures of some of the Native American house styles. Native American Homes Wigwams or wetus are Native American houses used by Algonquian Indians in the woodland regions. Wigwam is the word for house in the Abenaki tribe, and wetu is the word for house in the Wampanoag. Sometimes they are also known as birchbark houses. Wigwams are small houses, usually 8 1. Wigwams are made of wooden frames which are covered with woven mats and sheets of birchbark. The frame can. be shaped like a dome, like a cone, or like a rectangle with an arched roof. Once the birchbark is in place, ropes or strips of. Here are some. pictures of a woman building a wigwam. Wigwams are good houses for people who stay in the same place for months at a time. Most Algonquian Indians lived together. Wigwams are not. portable, but they are small and easy to build. Woodland Indian families could build new wigwams every year when they. Longhouses are Native American homes used by the Iroquois tribes and some of their Algonquian neighbors. They are built similarly to wigwams, with pole frames and elm bark covering. The main difference is that longhouses are much, much. Longhouses could be 2. Inside the longhouse, raised platforms created a. Mats and wood screens divided the longhouse into separate rooms. Each longhouse. housed an entire clan as many as 6. Longhouses are good homes for people who intend to stay in the same place for a long time. A longhouse is large and takes a lot of time. The Iroquois were farming people who lived in permanent villages. Iroquois men sometimes built wigwams. Tepees also spelled Teepees or Tipis are tent like American Indian houses used by Plains tribes. A tepee is made of a cone shaped wooden frame with a covering of buffalo hide. Like modern tents, tepees are carefully designed to. As a tribe moved from place to place, each family would bring their tipi poles and hide tent along with them. Originally, tepees were about 1. Plains Indian tribes acquired horses, they began building them twice as high. Indian tepee photograph. Tepees are good houses for people who are always on the move. Plains Indians migrated frequently to follow the movements of the. An entire Plains Indian village could have their tepees packed up and ready to move within an hour. There were fewer. Great Plains than in the Woodlands, so it was important for Plains tribes to carry their long poles with them whenever. Grass houses are American Indian homes used in the Southern Plains by tribes such as the Caddos. They. resemble large wigwams but are made with different materials. Grass houses are made with a wooden frame bent into a beehive shape and. These were large buildings, sometimes more than 4. Wichita grass house. Caddo grass house construction. Grass houses are good homes for people in a warm climate. In the northern plains, winters are too cold to make homes out of prairie grass. But in the southern plains of Texas, houses like these were comfortable for the people who used them. Wattle and daub houses also known as asi, the Cherokee word for them are Native American houses used by southeastern tribes. Wattle and daub houses are made by weaving rivercane, wood, and vines into a frame, then coating the frame with plaster. The roof was either thatched. Wattle and daub houses are permanent structures that take a lot of effort to build. Like longhouses, they are good homes for agricultural people who. Cherokees and Creeks. Making wattle and daub houses requires a fairly warm climate to dry the plaster. Chickees also known as chickee huts, stilt houses or platform dwellings are Native American homes used primarily in. Florida by tribes like the Seminole Indians. Chickee houses consisted of thick posts supporting a thatched roof and a flat wooden platform. They did not have any walls. During rainstorms, Florida Indians would lash tarps made of hide or cloth to. Seminole chickee. Chickees are good homes for people living in a hot, swampy climate. The long posts keep the house from sinking into marshy earth, and. Walls or permanent house coverings are. Adobe houses also known as pueblos are Native American house complexes used by the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. Adobe pueblos are modular, multi story houses made of adobe clay and straw baked into hard bricks or of large stones cemented together. Each adobe unit is home to one family, like a modern apartment. The whole structure, which can contain dozens of units, is often home. Pueblo Indian houses   Adobe cliff dwellings. Hopi Mesa pueblos. Adobe houses are good homes to build in a warm, dry climate where adobe can be easily mixed and dried. These are homes for farming people. In fact, some Pueblo people have been living in the same adobe house complex. Sky City, for dozens of generations. Earthen house is a general term referring to several types of Native American homes including Navajo hogans, Sioux earth lodges. Native American pit houses of the West Coast and Plateau. Earthen houses made by different tribes had different designs, but all were. Pawnee earth lodge. Navajo hogan. Alaskan sod house. Earthern houses are good for people who want permanent homes and live in an area that is not forested. Its difficult work to excavate underground. Living partially underground has several benefits, especially in harsh climates the earth offers natural protection. Plankhouses are Native American homes used by tribes of the Northwest Coast from northern California all the way up to Alaska. Plank houses are made of long, flat planks of cedar wood lashed to a wooden frame. Native American plank houses look rather similar to old. European houses, but the Indians didnt learn to build them from Europeans this style of house was used on the Northwest Coast long before. Europeans arrived. Chinook plankhouse. Yurok plank house. Plank houses are good houses for people in cold climates with lots of tall trees. However, only people who dont need to migrate spend the time. Most Native Americans who live in the far northern forests must migrate regularly to follow. Only coastal tribes, who make their living by fishing, made. Igloos or Iglu are snow houses used by the Inuit Eskimos of northern Canada. Not all Inuit people used igloos. Like a sod house, the igloo is dome shaped and. Inuit Eskimo igloo. Building an igloo. Inside an igloo. Igloos are good houses for the polar region, where the earth is frozen, the snow cover is deep, and there are few trees. Snow is a good insulator, and dense blocks of ice offer good protection against the arctic winds. Brush shelters including wickiups, lean tos, gowa, etc. Native American dwellings used by many tribes. Brush shelters are typically very small, like a camping tent. People cannot usually stand up straight inside brush lodges they are only used for sleeping in.