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2018 REUNION UPDATE #2

Annual Meeting documents are now available on the web site for reference. These documents include a letter from the Delano Kindred President, the tentative agenda for the Wednesday presentations, the tentative Annual Meeting agenda, the list of candidates for Board of Director positions, and the proposed 2018-2019 operating budget. You must be logged in to the web site to view the candidates for Board positions and the proposed Annual Budget. If you are a Delano Kindred member and you cannot view the members-only documents, please log in with your userid and password and try again. 2018 Annual Meeting Members (Members Only) Click here to view the complete documentation package for members. 2018 Annual Meeting Members (Non-Members) Click here to view the complete documentation package for non-members.

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2018 REUNION UPDATE #1

We have started to send out flash emails to highlight our plans for the upcoming Delano Kindred Reunion meeting in Fairhaven, MA, June 13 and 14, 2018. If you are a member and didn't receive one, we might not have your correct email address. If that's the case, please go to the "CONTACT US" tab and send us a note so we can update our records. Here is the first flash email: Plans are shaping up and this year?s reunion promises to be the best one yet! Stay tuned for the wonderful slate of speakers we have lined up which will be detailed in upcoming flash emails. Because there is tremendous interest in Old Dartmouth (Fairhaven, Acushnet, New Bedford, Westport and present-day Dartmouth) and the family names that pioneered this area (Delano, Cooke, West, Nye, Spooner, Hathaway, Taber, etc.) we will be inviting the Cooke Society, south coast historical societies, and the Fairhaven local community as well. However, we want to make sure that our membership is given first consideration. If you are planning on attending, please send in your registration ASAP. Our meeting room accommodates 100 people and after May 1st we will be encouraging other interested parties to attend. To quickly view or download the Reunion Registration Form, click here.

• Speakers will be delivering their talks on Wednesday, June 13 at the Millicent Library.
• A group picture will be taken in front of the Town Hall at 9:30 AM on Thursday, June 14.
• Immediately after the picture, at 10:00 AM, Chris Richard, Fairhaven?s Tourism Director, will conduct a 90 minute walking tour. Although the tour is primarily about Henry Huttleston Rogers? monumental gifts to the town, Chris will highlight HHR?s Delano ancestor, the Delano art gallery in the town hall, the gifts of Laura Delano Astor to the Millicent Library and much more. There will be sit-down breaks along the way, but comfortable shoes are always a good idea. This tour has been highly acclaimed. Huff Post called it one of the best immersive tours in New England and a recent article in the Boston Globe titled ?Is it Europe, No, it?s Fairhaven? is pasted below (without the pictures, and included here with permission). To see the original article, click here.

Is it Europe? No, it?s Fairhaven. By Ellen Albanese GLOBE CORRESPONDENT MARCH 06, 2018 FAIRHAVEN ? The soaring granite Italian Renaissance library draws the eye upward, past ornate terra cotta wreaths and garlands to the deep red tiled roof edged with copper. Across the street, the brick and granite French Gothic town hall with its four-faced clock tower conceals an interior decorated with quartered oak paneling, solid brass fixtures, and stained glass windows. Is it Europe? No, it?s Fairhaven, as this town?s Office of Tourism proudly proclaims in its visitors? guide. Fairhaven?s stunning public buildings were a gift of Henry Huttleston Rogers (1840-1909), a local boy who made a fortune with Standard Oil. All but one of the buildings Rogers gave the town between 1885 and 1908 are still in use today, and visitors can see many of them on the Henry H. Rogers Walking Tour, offered Tuesday and Thursday mornings from the beginning of June to the end of September. Chris Richard, the town?s tourism director and another Fairhaven native, likes to joke that ?Rogers was building an early Epcot,? with the Italian Renaissance Millicent Library, the French Gothic town hall, the English Perpendicular Gothic Unitarian Memorial Church, and the Elizabethan-style high school, all designed by noted New England architect Charles Brigham. The tour, which Richard developed in 1998, includes visits inside the Town Hall and the Millicent Library, as well as a walk by the Unitarian Memorial Church, the George H. Taber Masonic Lodge, and Rogers?s boyhood home. Clad in typical late 19th- to early 20th-century menswear ? white shirt, black vest, black bowler hat, and a walking stick ? Richard spices up the 90-minute walk with historical perspective and anecdotes from the benefactor?s life. In addition to the beautiful buildings, Rogers made other, less visible contributions to Fairhaven, Richard says. He put in a municipal water system and drained and filled a boggy pond in the center of town to create Cushman Park. His munificence extended well beyond town borders: Rogers helped finance Helen Keller?s college education and gave Booker T. Washington money to help found Tuskegee Institute. While the high school is not on the tour because it?s not in the downtown, Richard says, that building offers a few tours during the summer. And the Unitarian Memorial Church conducts tours on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons in July and August. Richard?s recommendation for a perfect day in Fairhaven is to take the Rogers walking tour in the morning; have lunch at one of the town?s popular restaurants, such as Elisabeth?s or Margaret?s; catch an afternoon tour of the church; visit Revolutionary-era Fort Phoenix, from which you can walk along the Fairhaven-New Bedford hurricane barrier out into the harbor; and finish up at the parklike Riverside Cemetery, where visitors can pay their respects at Rogers?s Greek-inspired mausoleum, modeled after a temple of Minerva. The Henry H. Rogers Walking Tour steps off from the Town Hall, 40 Center St., Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 a.m., weather permitting, from early June through the end of September. Free. Tours can also be downloaded from fairhaventours.com. Ellen Albanese can be reached at ellen.albanese@gmail.com.

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Membership Address Change

Our membership chairperson, Jackie Delano, has recently moved to a new home in North Carolina. Some membership renewals are not getting properly forwarded to her and are being returned to the sender. Should his happen to you, please re-mail your application or renewal to her at her new address: The Delano Kindred c/o Jackie Delano 3304 Meridian Market Drive Fuquay Varina, NC 27526-5754 Thank you for your understanding!

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2018 REUNION MEETING DATES & DETAILS

2018 ANNUAL MEETING and REUNION DATES: JUNE 13 & 14, 2018! *** This post will be kept updated with new information as it becomes available *** (Last updated on March 25, 2018) The annual Delano Kindred Reunion Meeting will be held in Fairhaven, MA, on June 13 and 14, 2018. This year we are returning to our geographic roots and focusing on connecting the Delanos with the old families of the Fairhaven area, for example Henry H. Rogers, the West family for which West Island is named, Philippe's uncle John Cooke, and of course Warren Delano and his family. Based on a number of comments and some past experience, we will be trying out some new ideas this year:

• This is a mid-week meeting (Wednesday and Thursday) to take advantage of availability of facilities in the Fairhaven area and keep costs down for everyone.
• Although we did block off a number of rooms at the Fairhaven Hampton Inn (reservation details are listed below), we will not be conducting our presentations and meetings at the hotel. Instead, we will be conducting our Wednesday activities at the beautiful Millicent Library in downtown Fairhaven and our Thursday activities at the West Island Improvement Association facilities on Fairhaven's spectacular West Island.
To view or download directions to the Millicent Library, click here . To view or download directions to the West Island meeting location, click here .
• We will have only one planned dinner together, that being a buffet on Thursday at West Island in conjunction with our annual meeting and traditional "cocktail hour."
• We are in the process of lining up speakers for both days to remind us about our connections to the old families of Fairhaven and point out places to visit in our free time while we are in the area.
• We will not be organizing a formal "tour" for this meeting. Instead, we will provide a number of great suggestions for places with Delano connections to visit.

The Hampton Inn in Fairhaven has agreed to hold a block of rooms for us at $159.00 + tax for a standard room with 2 double beds or 1 king bed. These rooms will be held until May 13, 2018, so if you would like to stay there, you need to reserve your room before that date. Guests may reserve rooms by calling the hotel directly at 1-508-990-8500 and referring to the Delano Kindred Reunion Block, online at www.newbedfordfairhaven.hamptoninn.com, or by calling 1-800-HAMPTON and referring to Group/Convention code DKR. MEETING REGISTRATION FORM To view or download the Reunion Registration Form (Parts 1 and 2), click here. Please complete both parts 1 and 2 of the forms with a check for the appropriate amount and send them to our Treasurer, Cousin David Grinnell, whose address is on the form, by 13 May 2018. This will be a very interesting and memorable event. We hope to see you there and enjoy your company! We will post a Reunion Flyer for the meeting as soon as a few more details are firmed up. If you're considering staying at the Hampton Inn or the Delano Homestead, feel free to make your reservations there now while rooms are more available. In the mean time, please SAVE THESE DATES and plan on joining us in June!

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GHAAHD "To The Reader" Listing of Significant Errors

We have added a document titled "TO THE READER" to the web site. This brief document lists some of the more significant errors that exist in the The Genealogy, History and Alliances of the American House of Delano 1621 to 1899 (GHAAHD) and is intended to accompany that volume. You can access it from the General Information About... Philippe Delano menu item on the right or directly via this link. This POST is enabled for member comments, so if you know of additional errors in the GHAAHD that you think should be included in this list, you may post them as a comment; please include your source reference.

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