Picture Diaries of our Colorful Life

For Barbarina
A Declararion of Love for the Woman in My Life
1956-2013

An Introduction

Selected Entries from my Diaries and our Desk Calendars, 1947 - 2010

Picture Diaries 

Before 1900

The Japanese Wedding” : Photos of my Father's ancestors

1900 - 1946

A Box of Old Family Pictures

1949 - 1955

Wunstorf and Göttingen

1956 -1959

Barbara, Wedding in Cambridge: Konrad born and died, escape to California

1960 - 1965

Susanne born in California Return to Cambridge

1965 -1967

PhD, second flight to California, Cornelius born

1977 -1969

Mandeville Canyon

1969 - 1972

Albright Street and a year in München

1969-present

The Story of Our House

1971 - 1972

Susanne's Bavaria

1973 - 1975

..Home again, Sierra Hikes, My Parents, Florence, Skiing every Spring....

1976 - 1979

Gerhard, Heike, Greece, and Russia

1979 - 1980

The Great Fire and Georgia with Barbara and Cornelius

1981 - 1982

Susanne's Wedding and move to Denver

1983 - 1984

Cornelius High School Graduation, R Moscow B Germany

1985 - 1988

Greece, R+C Ladakh + Cornelius Graduation in Berkeley

1989 - 1990

Ladakh+USSR with Cornelius, R+B Turkey

1991 - 1992

Greece, Peleponnes with Barbara

1993-1994

...R+B France, Munich-Winter 94, R+B Rome + Greece, R+Irmgard in Silesia

1995

R+B Denver, R+Irmgard Masuria, Cornelius PhD, Great Tibet Expedition

1996

Cornelius NY, Christine's only Visit, Greece with the Mays

1997

Cornelius at Columbia, Susanne moves to Atlanta, Spain with Barbara

1998

B Atlanta, R+B Paris AC appears, M&M here, Omnia, Christmas C+AC

1999

R Irmgard Hammer's Geburtstag, B. Tübingen, B+Traudl to Denver, R+B Kathmandu

2000

B New York+Atlanta, Florida: C+AC's Wedding, R. Tbilisi returns in wheelchair

2001

B NewZealand, R New York, R+B Europe Museums, Christmas New Mexico

2002

B New York, Baroque Tour, R+B Tuscany Ulysse born, C+AC move to Rome,

2002

Ulysse born Sep 13, 2002, his Natal Horoscope

2003

B Hamburg+Tübingen, Monterotondo+Sicily, Christmas in San Francisco

2004

B, Hamburg,Tübingen, Ivrea, Southwest with Margit, Greece, Romans for Christmas

2005

Atlanta Reunion, B Hamburg and Tübingen, R+B in Rome and the Greek Islands

2006

Barbara in Karlsbad, Calliope born , B. Tübingen , Rome, B+R to Denver

2006

Calliope born July 15, 2006, her Natal Horoscope

2007

Anik, Cornelius, Ulysse, Suschen and Sophia, and Christmas in München

2008

Barbara in poor shape, Susanne helps, Rolf in Sacro, A Family Christmas

2008

A Turbulent Christmas in Pacific Palisades

2009

Photos from a year of unexpected Events – as expected: Anaïs born in Rome

2009

Postcards from a Distant Past, for Christine's birthday in 2009

2010

Jenny to stay, Romans visit + go camping, Susanne twice, Cornelius + Calliope visit

2010

The Summer of 2010, the Roman's camping trip in the Southwest

2011

A Year of Surprises, Anxieties, and Good Friends.

2012

Many pictures from the year which ended in Rolf's broken hip

2013

A Retrenchment: Let our Children and Grandchildren carry the Torch

2014

All the Romans visit twice + go camping in California

 

Travelogues

1950

Sommer with Brigitte

1951

Baroque Summer alone

1952

Italy on Bicycles with Gerhard

1953

The Discovery of Greece with Gerhard 1953, The long story (pdf)

1953 - 1954

Greece 53 - Turkey and Greece 54 with Gerhard

1969-1989

Visits to the former Soviet Union

1971

Mykonos, Delos, Ios, Santorini with Barbara

1976

Amorgos with Barbara

1982

Crete, Santorini, Paros with Barbara and Norm

1985

The Glorious Summer: Mani, Amorgos, Paros with Cornelius and Barbara

1991

Peleponnese, Amorgos with Barbara

1994

Easter in Rome with Barbara

1994

Naxos, Amorgos with Barbara

1994

Habelschwerdt/Bystryca Klozko Revisited

1995

Nepal, Tibet, and Kailas

1996

Santorini, Paros with Barbara and Uli and Margit

1997

Spain: Madrid and Andalucia with Barbara

2001

Museum Tour: Holland, Belgium, Hamburg, Essen, and Berlin

2002

Tuscany with Barbara

2003

Sicily Trip and Monterotondo

2004

Kyklades with Barbara

2005

Jenny's Graduation Reunion in Atlanta

2005

Rome, Naxos and Amorgos

2006

Barbara in Karlsbad

2006

Trip to Denver through the Indian Country with Barbara, Marc and Monique

2008

A Family Gathering in Sacro in June 2008

2014

Travels with Cornelius – For his 49th Birthday

 

An Appraisal of Our House
2014


Rolf's Ancestors

Illustrated Genealogical Tables of the
Ancestors and Descendents of Werner and Margarethe Handtmann-Gross

including a Google-Earth kmz-File of all Ancestral Place Names
you need to have the Google-Earth Program installed
on your computer

Lebenserinnerungen von Grandfather Werner Gross
edited by Hartmut Schmidt

 

Die Nachfahren der Novella d'Andrea

Eine merkwürdige Entdeckung

Die Chronik der Christine de Pisan

Die Nachfahren der Novella d'Andreae aus der Breythaupt'schen Chroni

Die Werke des Johannes d'Andreae



Briefe meiner Eltern

Briefe meines Vaters an seine Eltern 1920-31

Briefe meiner Mutter an ihre Schwester 1927-37

Briefe meiner Eltern an uns 1971-82



Stories and Tales
Please do not pass on to others !


Stories from my Life

The Summer of Our Innocence
1933 – 1947

The Troubled Years
1947 – 1956

A Faschingsball at the Nansenhaus
1956

The Rope Snapps
1956

America
1956

Meeting Cornelius in New Haven
1993

Other Stories

Tales from the USSR
1969-1989

The Return of the Monkey King
1983

Arcadia, Searching for the Goddess
1991

Tibet, A Journey to the End of the Earth
1995

The Snowdancer, Three Tibetan Parables
2000

The Life of Hieronymus Bosch
2005

Barbara's Poems
Greece 1991