Discussion: Wahoo

I just got mine to work. Hadn't tried for a while. But it worked today and quite nicely. Seemed quicker than before.

Well, mine was downloading my runs from West Point and Mashamoquet (which were already on my desktop), but couldn't seem to find the ones from today.

Must be the sea air. Enjoy it out there. Sounds really nice.

I like prowling the cemeteries...lots of my ancestors buried on Nantucket. Coffins and Wings, for example. Always interesting to find the grave of a direct forefather. Those tombstones are like a small .pdf file from the past, that won't vanish into the ether unexpectedly. :-)

My dad was one for prowling old cemeteries looking for ancestors. At one point he got interested in finding out about a maternal great grandfather, one Asel Owen. He tracked him down to Geneva, New York, prowled cemeteries for a while, eventually figured out the right one. In the intervening years there had been floods or tornadoes or something and many of the old stones were broken or overturned, but he persisted and triangulated the position to one large oblong stone with the inscription side down, too large for one man to lift. He went into town and greased the palm of some town workers who came out with a large bar and flipped it over. He was so satisfied to see it! In '93 when we were traveling across the country, on our way back from Souhern California to Martha's Vineyard, Rhonda and I and the kids stopped in Geneva, followed my dad's directions to the cemeter and took a picture, but I don't know what I may have done with it.