Ken Nelson

Jenny at the Montshire Museum in Norwich, VT
  Summer 2001

This is a bread cutting box I made for my Uncle Ray. At this point it wasn’t done yet, I still had to sand it and stain it.  You cut bread on it and the crumbs fall in the box and you can dump them easily.  It sits on a bread boarded cherry table I made for his RV. His RV was old and tired but had the nicest table around!

The bread cutting box, btw, was made entirely with hand tools. No electricity used. The wood came off our farm in Vermont, again hand cut, ripped with a hand rip saw, hand planed to size with a 100 year old jointer hand plane. I then joined it using dove tails cut with a chisel and Japanese pull saw.  I made enough wood for two boxes this size, and then went back to power tools. The entire project took months (mainly for drying the wood).

Brian eats fresh peas
Royalton, VT
July 2001

Jenny
April 2009

Jenny
Sept 2002

Brian
Yesterday

 
Captain Raymond Nelson receives his first Bronze Star, Republic of Vietnam.

Notice the salt encrusted uniforms – Vietnam was hot and humid.

Ray played a part in seeding the Ho Chi Min trail with clever listening devices used to detect enemy movement. These devices looked like natural fauna. He served 2 years in Vietnam.

His internment is today, at Riverside National Cemetery, with full military honors, even a live bugler.  If you plan on attending be at Staging Area 3 at 1230.

Uncle Ray at US Army Jump School, Ft. Benning, GA
His memorial is today.

Monument Valley, Utah
May 2010

The camera is supported on a Brian’s suit case.  I dragged it out of the van when we stopped to snap some pictures.

 
Is the train coming?
Sep 2001
South Royalton, VT

Actually the Amtrak had just passed and they were listening to it rumble a mile or so down the track.

Jenny
Sharon, VT
Oct 2001

Brian
Sept 2001

Jenny
Nov 2003

Jenny, 2006

 
Brian
Sep 2003