Magee Family Display

We are connected to the Magees through Monique. A grand family reunion last summer in August provides us with a way to introduce this extended family with a group shot, but, as sometimes happens, this photo by no means equals a census of Magees. Even our rather limited survey of people we know tells us that lots of individuals are missing. But the Magee branch of fictional Ghulf Genes will serve us to introuce other such arrays of humanity, the drops, you might say, of society. First we show the picture of those assembled. The people arranged themselves, fortunately for our purposes, in such a way that we are able to capture, in an enlarged rectangle, those best known to us of those who are here present. That picture follows, with commentaries on the names beneath.

John is the person whom, in this context, we would call our John. He is part of our innermost circle since his marriage to Monique, who is our flesh and blood. Dick Nason is John's stepfather and stands immediately behind John's mother, Sheila. To Dick's left and our right is Susan Riordan, John's sister. And last, his face partially obscured (like Dick's), is Jim Magee, father of Susan and John. Not shown is Michael, Susan's and John's brother--nor the three Nason children by Dick's previous marriage, Katrina and Eric ("the twins") and Bobby. As we noted, not everyone is present--or our aging eyes can't quite see them all in this large assembly.

I would here draw special attention to Susan. She is, you might say, The Mother of Blogs. Her initial ventures into blogging (Gettysburg Family, accessible from this site), inspired John's Patioboat and then, in sequence Ghulf Genes and others, not least Michelle's Pontoon Pirates, a blog that Monique started as a summer's lark and which has sprouted like the legendary beanstalk into the French sensation. As in all family matters, it's difficult to sort out the lineages, genetic or other. But Susan is easy to identify as the generatrix of our blogging.

The setting? The Adirondacks.