The Suffield Observer was given the privilege of traveling with Ron and Opal Gilmore to Normandy during this year’s observance of D-Day, June 6, 1944. Opal is part of an Arizona chorus that was the only choral group invited to represent the USA in this year’s D-Day Memorial Parade and Musical Salute. While there, Opal sang in many historic venues. The photo shows Ron and Opal in the American Cemetery at Omaha Beach.
Scouts of Boy Scout Troop 66 paused for their portrait with the Observer on the Mall in Washington, D. C. on a camping field trip in May. They bused in from a Kampgrounds of America site outside the city for a fantastic time visiting most of the important sites. From the left: David Fitzgerald, Sam Petrucci, Johnny Riley, Joe Dion, Tommy Fitzgerald, Christian Dion, Michael Riley, Adam McDonough, and Ezra Audet.
Dwarfed by the fabulous architecture behind him, Kyle Laviana is posed with the Observer in front of the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, in Florence, Italy. He was completing a 90-day immersion semester in June at Stanford University’s campus there and had an opportunity to visit Naples, Pompeii, Venice, Rome, Sicily, Switzerland, and Paris.
Kevin and Diane Seger and Erin and Mike Ulitsch interrupt their relaxation among the thatched beach umbrellas at Montego Bay, Jamaica, for their portrait with The Suffield Observer.
Joan and Tom Heffernan are pictured with their hiking sticks, and of course the Observer, in the glorious landscape of First, a minor summit served by a cable car above Grindelwald, Switzerland. That’s the Eiger in the background.
Enjoying the summer weather in Skagway, Alaska, Ralph and Donna Garside pose with The Suffield Observer at the entrance to the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, where the White Pass crosses the coastal mountains, the gateway for gold miners.