Lydia Rathbun Littlefield, Pam Littlefield Gasner

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Rathbun connection, Joshua’s House, Rathbun family newsletters

marriages, looking at pictures, erecting the stone

first appearing in American records, names on settlers’ rock, farmhouse, Thomas Rathbun’s accomplishments

More of Thomas Rathbun’s accomplishments, pirates visiting Rathbun

genealogy, coal hogging (clamming), informal society for Rathbun relations

Lydia’s engagement, spreadsheet of relationships

similarities in appearance to relatives/ancestors, original historian magazine from 1892, Rathbun interactions with Lincoln

Block Island Historical Society, last Rathbun died, no Rathbuns left on island in name, last reunion

details of last reunion, getting interested in history, joining the Block Island Historical Society

Luella, getting put on the planning board

yellow house and camping outside it, spending summers on Block Island, library, bike accidents and no medical on the island

getting candy and choosing where to picnic, love of reading, daddy boat/friday night boat, grandfather planting cherry tree

painted picket fence, earliest boat ridden and remembered, visiting Edna and having ice cream

View from the house, love the pond

views that have stayed the same