Brenna Rose Ferguson Graduates

Thanks to proud aunt Sue Williams for the following great news:

After three years of hard work and dedication Brenna Rose Ferguson will graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in digital photography from the Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago.

Brenna, daughter of Cindy Haney Fieg and step-daughter of Cindy's husband, Richard Fieg, went to Chicago in the summer of 2011 to pursue a degree in photography.  She has been working part-time for TK Photography in Chicago (http://tkphotographychicago.com/) ("We photograph people through life’s journey, wherever that journey may lead.") as well as free-lancing on her own for weddings, graduations, family portraits and the like. 

For her final school project she has chosen as her subject Eleanor Williams, her uncle Ed Williams' mother. They have had fun getting to know each other a little better and getting some great pictures for Brenna's portfolio/project.

The graduation date is Sept. 26, 2014.  Well wishes, roses and engraved pocket watches may be directed to Brenna at www.BrennaRosePhotography.com  or brenna.ferguson2010@gmail.com. 

The Lothar Fieg family is very proud of her accomplishments and happy to have her in the family.

Hoppy Hedder's Hearsay

WHAT FIEG COUSIN and spouse are about to embark on a sailboat cruise from Cape Cod through the Intracoastal Waterway?  (Hint:  it's NOT Carol and Bob Ramagosa!)

WELL DEARS, in just under six weeks there will be a new arrival at the home of a very appropriately named Fieg cousin whose two girls (initials H. and P.) can't wait to be big sisters!

IN UPSTATE NEW YORK a lanky red-head is off to third grade.  I can't divulge the name, but the initials are K.M.  Hats off to this child and best of luck!  (Well done, also, with the ice water challenge in memory of Hizzoner the grandfather.)

NOW MY DEARIES, you all should know that there will be an event -- THE event -- in Sin City on November 2.  Fiegs from around the country will converge for a hug-fest in the West with the best of the best, and, darlings, you do NOT want to miss it.

That's all I can divulge at this moment.  It's time for cocktails!

100th Wedding Anniversary Observed by Fiegs

Sept. 3 marks the 100th wedding anniversary of Florence Shields and Lothar Fieg who famously were married while holding hands through a window overlooking a porch.

Florence May Shields Fieg

Hermann Lothar Emil Fieg

Florence, who was suffering from scarlet fever, an often fatal disease at the time, was taken from the boarding house run by her mother, Celestia, in Corbett, N.Y. to the Mary Mason house, a resort on the Delaware River in nearby Colchester, where she was kept under quarantine.

Lothar, a foreman at the Corbett and Stewart Acid Factory in Corbett, climbed up on the roof of the porch and took Florence's hand while the vows were recited.

 

The boarding house in Corbett had been operated by Celestia, and Florence and all her sisters had domestic chores to perform there as part of the operation.   "My mother was a good cook and a good baker," said Thelma Bost, daughter of Florence's sister Nettie.  "She was about 6 or 7 when she had to start making cakes to serve to the boarders."  Thelma, age 88, recalled that the girls had to go to the company store for supplies and sister Marie insisted on carrying the heavy goods back to the house, to Nettie's delight. 

It is believed that the boarding house, which was owned and operated by Corbett and Stewart from the 1920s to 1930s, when the company folded, is still standing.  The remains of the Mary Mason house are under 50 feet of water in the Pepacton Reservoir.

Florence and Lothar's eldest child, Emilie, was born June 29, 1915 (yep, that's nine months!).  The couple later moved to Oneonta, where the other six were born.