Happy 6th birthday, my dear Buddy

HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY, my dear BUDDY ♥ REST IN PEACE♥
On April 15, 2004 we adopted from the East Providence Rhode Island
SPCA shelter, this beagle,whose name was Buddy, born MARCH 27, 2003
An appropriate name might have been CHANCE, becaue we gave him a
second chance to live a happy canine life with humans who would love him
so much that he would become faithful and learn to trust and obey.
Buddy was 13 months old when we adopted him and badly abused
with a personality of aggressiveness. TODAY 10 years later, Buddy is the most MISSED lovable sweetest furry canine companion that anyone would love to own and love. We are so happy to have given him a love he so deserved. How we wish we could have been given many more years to share with Buddy. GONE TOO SOON

We will always  remember Buddy so patiently waiting for us to take him for his walk and his ride in the car. We took him out for a ride and gave him some healthy Canida treats. Once he was contented he curled up in the back seat and would fall asleep. We could hear his snoring of contentment. A day well-spent

It is someones birthday QUESS WHO?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - June 29, 1944

"I was born in Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket, RI at 12:30pm. onThursday, June 29, 1944. My mommy told me she was going to a movie and she knew I was going to be born and went to the hospital."

This is my Daddy, he was in World War II

I am only 2 and I am waiting for him to come home so we can play and he can hug me and hug me. I miss him so much and I know he misses me and Mommy, too.

" I am sitting on Mommy and Daddy's bed, so Mommy can tell me a bedtime story. I love stories read to me. We live in an apartment on 94 Warren Avenue in East Providence, RI. When my Daddy comes home we are going to go live in one of Nana's apartments down the road at 413 Warren Avenue. We will be all together there, Mommy, Daddy , and me"
Mommy , Daddy and I are a happy family

"This is my best friend, Diane, we are sitting on the step at my Poppy's house on Broadway Avenue, East Providence, RI. We are waiting for Mommy to come home from work. My Aunt Isabel, who I have called Bobie is taking this picture. She and Poppy take care of me so Mommy and Daddy can work and make some money."

"This is my favorite picture, it was taken in Providence at the Loring Studio. I am 3 years old."

Whose pictures are these?

They are Kathleen Ann Pacheco-Corbett

A night of fire, music and dancing under the stars

We parked in front of the Amtrak station in Providence to begin our evening adventure of food and entertainment. This was the opening evening of The 2008 Waterfire season.

WaterFire is an environmental art installation created by Barnaby Evans in Providence, Rhode Island. It consists of a series of up to 100 bonfires that blaze just above the surface of the three rivers that pass through the middle of downtown Providence in Waterplace Park

(the Woonasquatucket, Moshassuck, and Providence rivers) , with accompanying world and classical music, sometimes with live performances.
Before walking around the river banks and watching the fires blazing and hearing the classical music we went to the Providence Place Mall Food Courtwhere Mark and I had our favorite Indian food at Gourmet India. I had PANEER PALAK, which is fresh spinach and homemade cheese with a touch of onions and ginger. DELICIOUS
After eating we walked and walked and walked by 10:00pm we were ready to sit for 20 minutes at the Rhode Island School of Design auditorium to see a 3-D slide show of Providence over the past 100 years. Very informative and interesting. After purchasing a medium size bag of kettle popcorn we walked to the WaterFire Sovereign Plaza Ballroom.

Sovereign Bank sponsors the ever popular WaterFire Sovereign Plaza Ballroom featuring live dancing under the stars. The Sovereign Plaza Ballroom returns this 8th season for four exciting nights.

The Sovereign Plaza Ballroom is free and open to the public. The Ballroom is just one short block away from WaterFire beneath the famous Turk’s Head building at the intersection of Westminster and Weybosset Streets in the downtown financial district.

The story tells of a Man named Jacob Whitman who once owned a home on this site in the mid-eighteenth century. His porch was adorn with a carving of a Turk. Over time the corner was called Turk's Head by locals. After Mr. Whitman passed away people continued to associate that name to the area. Eventually a commercial building replaced Mr. Whitman's home but the name still stuck. When the present building was eventually built, a large-scale head of a Turk was included in the design in reference to this legend. The story might have some truth. The Historical society posses a carving of a Turk's head which is said to be the very one from Whitman's front porch. A stunning venue with superb live music and a 65’ polished black dance floor. The dancing flows from 8:00 to midnight. There are free lessons by master instuctors at 7:00 Lesson: Russell Monk and Waltz & Swing the Band is Compaq Big Band 8:00pm-midnight

We left Providence at 12:30 am after having a most enjoyable fun evening

http://www.waterfire.org
http://www.compaqbigband.com
http://www.providenceplace.com
http://www.brown.edu/Courses/HA0191/new/location.php?id=34

How sad it must have been.......

The excitement of a first child being born is a memory that a father cherishes forever. On June 29, 1944, I was born to the Portuguese-descent parents, Mary Kathyrn Medeiros and Edmund Joseph Pacheco from East Providence, RI at Memorial Hospital. How sad it must have been for my Mom to have my Dad here for just a few days on furlough and to have him leave to return to the war and how sad for him to leave his new born daughter and wife. But fortunately he was here for my birth. My Mom sent him frequent photos of my progress with her love letters until he was discharged in 1945. He was in the 14th Armored Division "A Co". My dad was the tank driver in the Army. They were married December 6, 1941 I was told that I was conceived in Des Moines, Iowa when my mom visited my dad on leave and named, Kathleen after her best friend.

Photo1

back row -Manuel R. Pacheco (Paternal Grandfather, VooVoo), Virgina Camara Pacheco(Paternal Grandmother, Nana),her sister Mary Moniz from California, cousin from California, front row-Edmund Joseph Pacheco(my father)holding ME, My paternal auntHilda Pacheco Leitao, paternal Uncle, James Pacheco, and Uncle Joseph F.Leitao

Photo 2

Back row standing- My Paternal Aunt, Hilda Pacheco, eldest, My Father, Edmund Joseph Pacheco oldest male, sitting, Paternal Uncle, James Pacheco, and the baby, paternal Aunt, Dudater Pacheco photo at my father's First Communion-age 8)

Photo3

Manuel R. Pacheco (Paternal Grandfather, VooVoo), Virgina Camara Pacheco(Paternal Grandmother, Nana),her sister Mary Moniz from California, cousin from California, front row-Edmund Joseph Pacheco(my father)Uncle Joseph F.Leitao, paternal Uncle, James Pacheco, my mother, Mary Kathyrn Medeiros Pacheco,I am stting in front of my Uncle Joe looking at my Mommy