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Our family
Susan Jane Hibdon Joyce
TA B L E of C O N T E N T S N EW YO RK O C TO B E R 2 0 1 4

Dustin Tyler Joyce

Fiona Claire Joyce
Colin Everett Joyce

Where we live
192 Linden Street, 2nd floor
Brooklyn, New York 11221-4504

Where we work/go to school

Susan

Dustin on the front cover

Consulting, taking care of Fiona and
Colin, cleaning, and looking for a job Fallen autumn leaves on
Wilson Avenue near our
fiona
Grade: Prekindergarten apartment.
Teachers: Sandra Gomez DUSTIN | 9 OCTOBER 2014
and Carmen De Leon
P.S. 147 Isaac Remsen
325 Bushwick Avenue on the BACK cover
Brooklyn, New York 11206-3404 Fiona and Susan in our
cabin at Promised Land
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of course. meeting of the Pineville Ward, Charlotte North
Carolina South Stake, Sunday, 23 July 2000.

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SUSAN DUSTIN FIONA COLIN

The family that
camps together
The Hibdons got
together for a week of
camping and adventure
in the Poconos.
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That time I tried Or, Life in the These are a few
out for a game Woods of my favorite
show After just a week in a things
I always knew that it cabin, I think I might My big sister, rubber
was my destiny to win like life in the woods duckies, toy trumpets,
a million dollars on TV. even more than life in and nice bottles of milk
Until it wasnt. the city. so much to love!
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JULYSEPTEMBER 2014
J U LY JUL AUG SEP
27 In response to Moscows
12 Long Beach, Long Island, claims that its troops are entering Su
with Dustins family for Fionas the Ukraine by mistake, Canadas
delegation to NATO tweets Mo 1
birthday
Geography can be tough with Tu 1 2
14 Fiona gets a library card for a map clearly marked RUSSIA
the first time, from the New York We 2 3
and NOT RUSSIA
Public Library Th 3 4
31 Chinas legislature, the
15 Fiona (4) National Peoples Congress, Fr 4 1 5
17 Dustin and Fiona to decides that Hong Kong cannot Sa 5 2 6
Hackettstown, New Jersey, on NJ democratically elect its own Su 6 3 7
Transits Morristown Line, part of leader in its next scheduled
Dustins goal to ride Greater New election, planned for 2017, leading Mo 7 4 8
Yorks entire rail network to widespread protests in Hong Tu 8 5 9
17 A giant crater suddenly Kong in the following weeks We 9 6 10
appears in the Yamal Peninsula, Sandy, the Montague Tubes Th 10 7 11
Russia, and scientists are at a SEPTEMBER reopen, returning the R train
loss to explain it, leading to Fr 11 8 12
4 Fionas first day of school: to its normal route between
widespreadand sometimes Manhattan and Brooklyn Sa 12 9 13
wildspeculation on its cause. prekindergarten in Ms. Gomezs
class at P.S. 147 Isaac Remsen For the first time since the Su 13 10 14
The most likely explanation: an
underground explosion of water, in Brooklyn. She goes for one government began tracking data Mo 14 11 15
salt, and natural gas, the result of hour that day and for two hours in 1976 more Americans are single Tu 15 12 16
climate change the following day. Monday, 8 than married
September, is her first full day We 16 13 17
Malaysia Airlines flight 17, on its 20 Dustin baptizes Joanne
11 Fiona goes to bed with Carol Lavoglio Th 17 14 18
way from Amsterdam to Kuala
Lumpur with 298 on board, is her pacifizer for the last time. 21 Dustin participates in Sister Fr 18 15 19
shot down over eastern Ukraine On Friday, 12 September, she Lavoglios confirmation Sa 19 16 20
by a missile fired by Russian and Susan had a slumber party
celebrating the end of her 21 President Thomas S. Su 20 17 21
separatists Monson, president of the Church,
pacifier days, and on Monday, Mo 21 18 22
251 August Camping with 15 September, Fiona and Dustin rededicates the Ogden Utah
Susans family at Promised Land Temple after a major remodeling Tu 22 19 23
shipped the pacifier off to
State Park, Pennsylvania Grammy (see page 11) that lasted three and a half years We 23 20 24

12 Oscar Pistorius of South 21 Rutgers University student Th 24 21 25

AUGUST Africa, the first double-leg Darsh Patel was killed by a bear Fr 25 22 26
amputee to participate in the in Apshawa Preserve, New Jersey.
9 Michael Brown, an 18-year- It was the states first bear attack Sa 26 23 27
old African American man who Olympics (see Dialann 8.12), is
convicted of culpable homicide since 1852 and only the second Su 27 24 28
was unarmed, was shot and killed fatal bear attack in the states
by a police officer in Ferguson, (a charge similar to manslaughter) Mo 28 25 29
in the death of his girlfriend, history
Missouri. It was the latest in a Tu 29 26 30
string of incidents in which police Reeva Steenkamp. He was found The third, final, and northernmost
not guilty of murder the day section of Manhattans We 30 27
used fatal force against young
black men, leading to protests and before groundbreaking High Line park Th 31 28
political debate in the St. Louis 15 After a yearlong closure to opens (see page 14) Fr 29
area and across the country repair damage from Hurricane 28 Daniel and Tiffany visit Sa 30
1417 Dustin and Fiona Su 31
to Frederick, Maryland, and 18 September
Washington, D.C. With 1,617,989 voting yes (45%) and 2,001,926 voting no (55%) on Mo

23 Elder David A. Bednar of
the Quorum of the Twelve breaks
ground for the Meridian Idaho
Temple
24 A 6.0-magnitude earthquake
near Napa, California, is the
largest to strike the Bay Area since
1989s Loma Prieta earthquake
the question, Should Scotland be an independent country? Scotland CO LO R KEY
chooses to remain a part of the United Kingdom, preserving the union
that has bound Scotland with England since 1707. An astounding 84.6% holidays
of registered voters turn out; 97% of eligible voters, which included, for travel
the first time, 16- and 17-year-olds, had registered. While Britainand birthdays
its flag, the Union Jacksurvives, it will not be as we know it: in order to
convince Scots to vote no, the U.K.s central government in Westminster events in our lives
has promised to further the devolution of powers that began with the events in the Church
reestablishment of the Scottish parliament in 1999. world events

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The family that camps together
promised land To the Poconos!
state park his year, the Hibdon clan decided to
25 JULY get together again, but instead of going to
Donner Lake, we decided to try a new place:
1 AUGUST 2014 Promised Land State Park in Pennsylvania, which I
The Hibdons got discovered by searching for lakes with camping in the
Poconos. Im glad we found it, and I hope we go back
together for a again.
week of camping On Friday, 25 July, after a few days of family
and adventure in emails discussing supplies and arrival times, Dustin
and Fiona went to pick up our car from New Jersey.
the Poconos. While they were gone, I read a blog post titled Why
I Took My Kids Toys Away (& Why They Wont
Get Them Back) and I was inspired to go through
Fiona and Colins toys and pack up a lot of them. I
decided that Im okay with building toys (blocks,
for example), art supplies, and musical instruments,
but other than that, I tried to get rid of as much as
possible. Most of them werent trash, of course, so
I stashed them away until we could take them to
Goodwill. It was convenient that Fiona had decided
to go with Dustin, since I couldnt have culled the
herd with her present. It was also convenient that
we were about to leave town for a week, so that she
wouldnt notice that some of her toys were gone.
When they got back around 14.00, we were
already far behind schedule. I had estimated that we
would leave around noon and get to the cabin around
15.00. We packed up and I adjusted our estimate
to 17.00. We drove and drove, but we hadnt had
any lunch, so we decided to stop at about the only
place there is near the highway in Troy, New Jersey:
Dunkin Donuts. We finally got into the vicinity of the
state park as the sun was setting. It was then that we
discovered that Dustins phone, which we had been
using to navigate, had no service and we didnt
know how to get to the park.
We drove down one road, state highway 447,
that looked promising (no pun intended), but the
bridge at the end was closed, so we had to turn
around. At the end of 447,
where it branches off from
The sign Pennsylvania highway 191
on our cabin in East Stroudsburg, there
is a retro-looking roadside
ice-cream stand called
Mary Annes Dairy Bar. I
suggested we stop there
for directions. I hopped
out of the car and asked
the teenage girls working
there if they knew how
to get to Promised
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Land. One of them did, and she gave me very good
instructions. (Apparently people stop there all the
time seeking directions, so she had some practice.)
We finally got to the cabins a few minutes before
22.00 very late and very dark (as forests are).
Grammy and Papa had a brand-new flashlight for
Fiona. She was thrilled to use it to find our cabin,
which was a cozy two-room affair built by the Civilian
Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. It
had an electric cooking stove, a wood-burning stove
for heat, a refrigerator, and a table and chairs in one
room, and four bunks in the other. It had a front
porch with a picnic table, and in an outbuilding just
behind the cabin was a bathroom with hot running
water and a shower. Even in the summer its pretty
chilly in the Poconos, especially at night, when the
temperature usually dips into the 50s (1015C). We
curled up on our bunks which, honestly, were not
that comfortable and went to sleep.
A week of fun, adventure, and family
Grammy and Papa discovered that a church just up
the road from our cabins was having a rummage sale.
The entire family ambled up to the sale right first
thing after breakfast on Saturday, 26 July, but of
course we didnt really need or want anything there,
especially after getting rid of so many toys a few days
earlier. Michael found an electric frying pan that
would be great for his crew trips. Dustin found two
tennis rackets for $1 each, which seemed like a great
idea since we can take them across the street and play
on the handball courts. Fiona found a wooden bear
that she bought for, I think, $1.50 her first purchase
ever. She was very pleased.
The next day, Sunday, 27 July, I woke up sick.
We hadnt really planned to go to church, because
it would have been really far anyway. Dustin took
Fiona and Colin with the rest of the family over to the
lake, where they found some wild blueberry bushes!
Im sad I missed that part. They picked a lot, I think.
Meanwhile, I was throwing up on the path to the
bathroom. Fortunately, though, I felt better right after
that. I never did figure out what was wrong, since I
had eaten the same things as everyone else.
That afternoon, Karen threw a birthday party for
Fiona. We had an egg-and-spoon race in the road, and
Fiona dropped her egg pretty much instantaneously.
We also played pin the tail on the donkey, although
Im not sure it was a donkey it may have been some
other animal and also I think we used tape instead
of pins. There were two Sarah Lee cakes, one vanilla
and one chocolate, as well as streamers and flower
banners and cupcake papers full of candies.
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One of the rustic cabins

at Promised Land State Park
Colin

The group
Bob . Karen . Fiona
Ellen . Susan . Michael . Papa

Fiona & Grammy

Karen & Susan
make tie-dyed shirts

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Near the church where the rummage sale took

place was a little dam, and above that was a beach
where we went to play on Monday, 28 July. Karen
and Bob had brought some beach toys, including
a mask and snorkel and a purple inner tube. Fiona
loved it. Her judgment was not always great, but she
was very enthusiastic about hanging around right
next to Karen and Bob, who fished her out when
necessary. Colin liked splashing around.
Later that day, we all drove to a town north of
the park called Hawley. It was one of those really cute
litte towns with a nice Main Street (and, impressively,
even some things off of Main Street), a nice library,
and a creek running through it. We walked around a
bit and explored some shops. There is also an old silk
mill outside of town which has been converted into a
hotel and some shops, with a trendy-looking but non-
franchised coffee house named Cocoon in a building
out front. We also stopped there, of course.
On Tuesday, 29 July, we started the day
working on tie-dyeing shirts that Karen brought.
Michael made one, and Karen made one for
Colin and one for Fiona. I made one, too, and
sadly it ended up looking more like the pox
rather than the cheerful sunbursts I was going
for. Fionas tie dye shirt is still one of her
favorite shirts to wear, and its still very bright,
unlike the tie-dye shirts I remember making
when I was little.
Later, we drove to Scranton, which
is Pennsylvanias sixth largest city and the
nearest large city to Promised Land State
Park. Scranton is also the setting of the
TV show The Office and is nicknamed, as
we learned while we were there, The
Electric City. As it turns out, it has kind
of a nice downtown. I suppose thats
not a surprise, since older small cities
generally did have nice downtowns. Its
just not what I think of when I think of
Scranton, probably because The Office
Fiona & a feather is set in a grungy suburban office park.
Colin & Papa We explored the lovely old
Lackawanna train station, which is on
a hill on the edge of downtown. Unfortunately, no
passenger trains stop there anymore, though the
platforms are still there. But at least it has not been
treehouse abandoned or demolished, like so many other lovely
Nay Aug Park . Scranton train stations across the United States: it has been
converted into a hotel, and we think would be a
pretty cool place to stay sometime.
We also visited Nay Aug Park, which is the
largest park in Scranton. The Nay Aug Gorge right
in the middle of the park, with a covered bridge
over it, was really lovely. We also went to a huge tree
house. One of the trees supporting the tree house we
were in had a little door on it, which I had forgotten
until Fiona reminded me. Actually, I still have no
recollection of it, but there are pictures, so I guess it
happened.

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On Wednesday, 30 July, we went on a hike on
the Little Falls Trail on the other side of the lake.
There were some people out, but not a lot, and I
was a little nervous about bears especially when,
partway around the loop, we found a giant pawprint
in the mud. It was not a dog paw. We made sure to
make plenty of noise as we finished our hike.
Throughout the week, when we werent out on
hikes and exploring, Grammy and Papas cabin was
the hang-out zone. Colin spent a lot of time hanging
out on a blanket in front of their cabin. He wasnt that
stable yet, so sometimes he toppled over backwards,
but it usually wasnt a big problem for him.
Fiona found a big rock she could sit on.
Someone had scaled a fish there, so she collected a lot
of fish scales. There were plenty of opportunities for
exploring, so that she did not feel any need for toys.
She even told us that she wanted to live there, in the
cabin, because there was so much to do and she liked
being able to walk over to Grammy and Papas house
every day. I also showed her that she could eat some
of the plants nearby, though sorrel was the only one I
was sure about.
There was plenty wildlife, too. We heard
woodpeckers pretty often and sometimes managed to Cabin guestbook
spot them in the trees. On Thursday, 31 July, Dustin This is the message in
repeated the Little Falls Trail hike with Grammy and Susans own handwriting
Papa. At the beginning of the trail, near the top of that Susan and Fiona
the creek, several people were gathered looking at left in the guestbook in
something in the water. Grammy, Papa, and Dustin our cabin.
looked and saw a snake taking a swim.
Some people, including Papa, reported bear
sightings near the cabins. Dustin made a habit later
in the week of waking up before everyone else
and sitting in our rental car. The seats were much
more ergonomic than the hard beds in the cabin,
which gave his back a chance to recover from the
previous nights sleep, and he could listen to NPR.
He also hoped to have his own bear sighting but,
unfortunately, it never came.
On Friday, 1 August, our week of fun,
adventure, and family came to an end. When it was
time to go, we packed up all of our stuff, including a
lot of stuff that had been purchased at Goodwill or at
the rummage sale so we could drop it off at another
donation site. (Its always nice to get rid of stuff.)
And, sure enough, when we got home, Fiona didnt
even notice that some of her toys were gone. d
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That time I tried out for a game show
6 AUGUST 2014 ho Wants to Be a Millionaire debuted in
I always knew that W the United States1 on 16 August 1999, the
same day my senior year of high school
it was my destiny began. It was hosted by Regis Philbin, who was
already a well-known talk-show host, and it became
to win a million an instant sensation. It was the first TV show to offer
dollars on TV. a million-dollar top prize, and it became the talk
Until it wasnt. around many water coolers around the countryand
in my German III class, where the previous nights
episode was enthusiastically recounted and critiqued
every class period.
I suppose I was a fan myself, and I watched
pretty often. I even once tried to get on the show
when I was in high school. At the time, hopefuls had
to call a toll-free 800 number and use their touch-
tone pad to answer three questions of increasing
difficulty. When I called, I aced the first two
questions,2 but the third one had me stumped. Put
these names in the song Mambo No. 5 in the correct
order. Four or five names were then stated, and I
was supposed to touch the 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 keys on my
phone in the order the names were sung in the song.
What?! I thought. I cant even keep those names in the
same order when the song is playing, much less when
Im supposed to regurgitate them now!3
That was the end of my Millionaire aspirations.
Until this week, that is. WABC, the local
ABC television station here in New York, posted
an audition announcement to its Facebook page.
WANT TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? the post asked.
Heres your chance! Auditions for Millionaire are
being held in NYC on August 6th, 7th and 11th -14th.
Go to millionairetv.com for details. GOOD LUCK!4
I shared the post, and its accompanying video,
to Susans Facebook page, noting, We should
audition! That was Sunday. I didnt do anything
about it until Tuesday, when I went to millionairetv.
com myself to sign up.5 I offered a couple of dates
when I would be available and submitted my info, and
a short time later I got an email telling me that I was
confirmed for Wednesday, 6 August, at 18.30, and that
I should arrive 15 minutes early.
The auditions were held at the headquarters of
ABC Television, 57 West 66th Street in Manhattan.
Im pretty familiar with the area because thats right
around the corner from the Manhattan New York
Temple. I knew how to go straight there: the L train
to the 1/2/3. I hopped out at the 66 St-Lincoln Center
subway station and marched right over. There was
already a line down the sidewalk on 66th Street,
which I assumed was full of Millionaire hopefuls. But
I was also feeling a little timid, and a little silly trying
out for a TV game show, much less one I hadnt
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watched since high school. So I went to the end of
the line and asked the last person what the line was
for. She said she was there for the 6.30 audition, and
I figured I was in the right spot (hoping, of course,
she meant the 6.30 audition for Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire and not for a soap opera or something).
We ended up waiting in that line for a while
well past the 18.30 time we had been given. I struck
up a conversation with my fellow standees, including
Joanna from Astoria, Queens, and Farhat from
Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Joanna and her husband
were planning on moving soon to Parkchester in
The Bronx, and Farhat was staying the night with
her son and grandchildren in Jersey City. Finally the
line started moving, and into the building we went,
straight into the employee cafeteria, which was
windowless with subdued lighting and whose walls
were lined with framed posters for ABC shows.
The first thing we had to do, of course, was pass
through a metal detector. (Its what you have to do
pretty much everywhere in our post-9/11 world.)
After collecting my phone and keys, I was handed
a large brown envelope that I was instructed not to
open until I was told. The envelope had the number
198 written and circled in thick black marker in
the upper right-hand corner. Take a seat at any
of the open tables, I was told. I ended up sitting
with the good and familiar company of Joanna
and Farhat. There was a Scantron form for each of
ussomething, like Millionaire, that I also hadnt
seen since high school. Jeff joined us at our table a
few moments later. He said that it was his sixth time
trying out for the show.
Then the woman who had handed me the
envelopewho was way too chipper and energetic,
as if either she had had too much caffeine or she was
hoping that a Broadway producer was among that
evenings auditioners (or both)started giving us
our instructions. We were to place our belongings
under our chairs and to turn our cell phones off
not vibrate or silent or airplane mode, but off. If
she heard our phone during the test, we were out.
(Another throwback to high school and college.) We
were to use the mechanical pencil provided and write
our name and the number on our envelope on the
Scantron. We had 10 minutes to take the 30-question
quiz. And we began.
I thought the quiz was relatively easy. There
were a couple of questions I wasnt sure about, and
a couple of others I made educated guesses on.
(As it turns out, FeS2 is fools gold, not pewter as I
had guessed, but Coca-Cola was invented by John
Pemberton.) Joanna wasnt so sure, and Farhat
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bluntly stated, I bombed.
The staff came back with the scored quizzes
and said that those who passed would have their
numbersthe ones from the envelopesannounced.
They were to move to the other side of the room
and await an interview with an associate producer.
Everyone else was free to go. The super hyper one
started calling out the numbers. It wasnt long before
she called out 198. I was in. So was Joanna, whose
number, 126, was called out a short time after mine.
We gave our condolences to Farhat and Jeff and
moved to the other side of the room.
I brought along the book Im currently reading,6
but by that point the excitement and the chatter in
the roomwhich would make it difficult to hear my
name when it was calleddistracted me too much
from reading. So I sat there, but the others at my table
werent nearly so chatty as Joanna and Farhat had
been. I eventually moved to a table closer so I could
more easily hear my name and ended up speaking to
someone who teaches geography to sixth graders in
a school just outside Philadelphia. It was definitely
a better way to pass the time than sitting in silence.
Then I heard my name.
Emma introduced herself and shook my
hand. We sat down and she complimented me on
my handwriting, which is what people usually do
when they first meet me. She then asked me a few
uninspiring questions. Among them, whats on my
bucket listbut not travel and debt, because thats on
everyones bucket list. Which I understood, but I was
stumped. Im debt-free, but Id love to check more
places off my bucket list. Eventually I asked if mode The sign showing But thats okay. Im not bitter, I explained to
of travel might be considered, and Emma relented. Millionaire hopefuls my online friends. I havent seen their stupid show
So I told her that Id love to ride the entire Amtrak where the path to since high school anyway. Those people cant help it
system, and she said that that was pretty unique. She TV fame and fortune if they suck.
added that her father was hoping to take that train begins: at a nondescript I guess Ill just have to go earn a million dollars
in Canada that goes from, like, Toronto to Vancouver emergency exit door the old-fashioned way. Which, I guess, is a pretty
or Seattle. Its called the Canadian, and I said that Id in the middle of a decent destiny, too. d
love to take that trip, too. blank wall at ABCs
Emma said that I should get an email in two or headquarters on West NOTES
three weeks stating whether I was in the contestant 66th Street. 1. The American version was based on an existing British show
pool and containing further instructions. And with DUSTIN of the same name (with a top prize of 1 million instead of
that our very short interview was over and I left. instagram.com/p/rX-RxMRWvk $1 million, which makes it 1.52 times more valuable than the
American version, depending upon the exchange rate).
On my way home I stopped by the store and
2. As I recall, one of the questions was on the geographic
got some cookies-and-cream Pop-Tarts to celebrate order of states from east to west or vice versa. Super easy
getting to speak with an associate producer. (Pop- for a geography geek like me. I dont remember the other
Tarts are my Achilles heel.) question.
At noon the next day, I got an email updating me 3. For the record, in the chorus the order is Monica, Erica,
on my status. Thank you for your interest in being Rita, Tina, Sandra, Mary, and Jessica, and theres a line
a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, toward the beginning of the song that states, I like Angela,
the email began. It continued: You have not been Pamela, Sandra, and Rita. Yeah, I was not going to be able
to remember that.
selected to be a potential contestant. We appreciate
4. Sic. Whoever runs WABCs Facebook page has a tendency
your continued interest in the show and thank you for to CAPITALIZE WAY TOO MUCH.
taking the time to audition with us. 5. Right after signing myself up, I submitted Susans name. She
And that was that. At least I did it. It was auditioned on Thursday, 7 August, at 17.00. She was also
fun. Susan auditioned on Thursday, 7 August, and ultimately rejected.
received her rejection email yesterday. We came. 6. On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the
We auditioned. We got rejected, I announced on World Looks by Simon Garfield (New York: Gotham Books,
Facebook. 2013); see page 24 in this magazine.

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Or, Life in the Woods
After just a week
in a cabin, I think
I might like life in
the woods even
more than life in
the city.
Fiona had a smile on her
face for much of the time
we were at Promised
Land State Park.
DUSTIN | 18.27 EDT, 27 JULY 2014
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T
his summer we went
camping in a cabin. It
was so great. We got
to sleep in bunk beds
in a little cabin, and
our bathroom was in a house outside.
In the morning, we would get up and
walk to Grammy and Papas cabin and
have breakfast with everyone: Grammy,
Papa, Ellen, Karen, Bob, Michael, and
Martin. Charlotte and Heather couldnt
come. We went exploring around the
cabins, and near Grammy and Papas
cabin we found some fish scales. They
were really pretty and I put them in
the pouch that Mama made for my
magnifying glass. I also found out that
there are some little heart-shaped leaves
that you can eat and they taste kind of
sour.
One day Mama was sick so she
stayed in the cabin and the rest of us
went to the lake. There were blueberry
bushes there and we picked blueberries.
When Mama was better, we went back
to the lake and went swimming. I tried
Charlottes mask and floated around on
a purple floaty thing. But mostly I didnt
float, mostly I just fell out of the floaty
thing over and over. One time the water
was kind of deep and I let go of the
floaty thing and I sank down with my
eyes open. I tried to push off with my
feet to get out but them Bob grabbed
me. It was so fun and so silly!
We also had a birthday party for
me. There were two cakes, one was
vanilla and one was chocolate. We made
tie-dye t-shirts and we had an egg race.
I dropped my egg on the road so we
started over. Maybe a raccoon ate the
egg I dropped! We played some other
games too. And we visited a giant eagles
nest.
Even though we didnt have very
many toys, I really liked going to the
lake. I liked our cozy little cabin and
sometimes I wish we lived there instead
of in New York City. d
 FIONA

Or, birthday party in the woods

Photos from Fionas birthday party at cabin 3 Tuscarora

at Promised Land State Park, Pennsylvania, 27 July 2014.

Fiona says goodbye

to her pacifizer
An excerpt from an email Susan sent to her mother,
Monday, 15 September 2014:

We boxed up Fionas pacifier last night [Sunday, 14

September]. I dont think I have ever been so proud
of her. I had stashed it away since Friday afternoon
[12 September], so she hadnt even seen it, and, aside
from one time on Saturday afternoon when I caught
her borrowing Colins, she hadnt used or even asked
for a pacifier. On Saturday night, when she went to
bed with her string blanket, she tried holding on to her
string but she said, It just does not feel the same. It
doesnt feel normal! Then, yesterday when I brought
her pacifier out again to pack it up, she popped it into
her mouth and snuggled with her string blanket one
last time. She said, Mama, it feels normal! She said it
with such bittersweet joy that it made me a little sad.
Dustin took some pictures of her with it for the last
time, and then started taking the plastic wrap off of the
box she picked out. When she saw that, she hopped
off my lap and went right over there to put her little
pacifizer inside. It seemed a little bit like she wanted to
hurry so she wouldnt change her mind. Then we put
it into the shipping box and she helped tape it up, and
then turned to me and said, Mama, I still feel a little
bit sad. I told her I understood and that I was proud of
her. I think I might have been at least as sad as she was.
I guess little girls have to stop using pacifiers sometime,
but I kind of wish they didnt.

Anyway, you can be expecting a package sometime

soon, although we havent mailed it yet. What a good
little girl we have. We are very lucky.

Love,
Susan

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THE JOURNAL
These are a few of
my favorite things
My big sister,
rubber duckies,
toy trumpets, and
nice bottles of milk
so much to love!
Little man: From an
excursion on Metro-
North/NJ Transit to the
end of the Pascack Valley
Line in Spring Valley,
New York, a favorite
photo of Colin emerges.
DUSTIN | 30 JUNE 2014
POSTED 2 JULY 2014; SHOPS AT
NANUET, NANUET, NEW YORK
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ow that I can get
around on my own
I keep hearing Mama
and Daddy mention
that Im not really
crawling, but it works for me there are
some things I go back to again and again.
My favorite person, of course,
is Fiona. I wiggle myself over to her
whenever I can. She can do so many
cool things. A while ago, she taught
me how to shake my head from side to
side so I get dizzy. Whoo, so much fun!
I could do that for five whole minutes
without getting distracted.
We also have some little yellow
ducks that I like to play with. They
come in different sizes and some of
them squeak. One of them has a spiky
hat on, and thats kind of interesting to
chew on. They also float in the bathtub.
Not that Im really into baths.
Not long ago, I learned how to use
the blue and red trumpet that Mama and
Daddy had shown me so many times. I can
make four different noises on it: blowing
out or breathing in, on the end of it or the
top of it. Its so satisfying to make such a
loud noise. I think I like loud noises.
Another thing I love is my bottle.
Theres nothing like a nice bottle of milk
when Im done playing. Or while Im
playing. Or when I wake up. Or while
Im falling asleep. Mama and Daddy
keep saying that I should fall asleep
without a bottle, but why? Why would
I want to do that when I could drink
milk and fall asleep at the same time?
It is a little uncomfortable when I drop
the bottle and roll on top of it while
Im asleep, mostly because that causes
all the milk to leak out all over and get
me and my bed soggy. But its not a big
problem, really. I think Ill continue my
bedtime bottle as long as possible. d
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Instagramming COLINTRACKER
Colins first summer TOOTHTRACKER

1 Monday, 7 July On the bridge 4 Monday, 18 August On the swings So far, 1

tooth. The
first one!
UPPER Woohoo!

RIGHT LEFT

LOWER

15 October 2014

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2 Tuesday, 22 July In the water 5 Wednesday, 3 September In a crate

1 STATE
Pennsylvania
25 July 2014

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3 Monday, 4 August At the beach
6 Tuesday, 9 September Straphanging
Appearance in a YouTube video
23 July 2014
Colin eats solid food for the first time
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Partaking the sacrament
21 September 2014
Haircut
26 September 2014
And theres video!
youtube.com/watch?v=50BdCA3fvwM

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1 you been to the High
2 atop an old elevated freight rail line on Manhattans West Side. Its
Track A restored section of
1 the original track.
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End of the line Looking over
2 the railing at the High Lines
southern end, at Washington
and Gansevoort streets.
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The third and final phase of
Manhattans groundbreaking
urban park-in-the-sky
finally opens.
the past few
F O R years, the
buzz among
urban planners, locals,
and visitors alike has been
about the High Line. Have
TEXT & Line? The High Line
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BY DUSTIN have you seen it? You
M A N H AT TA N should really check out the
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High Line. I love the High
Line. High Line, High
Line, High Line Marcia,
Marcia, Marcia it seemed to be all anyone could
ever talk about. But, cmon, I thought, its just a
park. How special can a park really be?
It turns out, pretty special.
The High Line is a 2.33-kilometer (1.45-mile) linear park built
southern end is at Gansevoort Street near the border between the
Meatpacking District and Chelsea. It runs parallel to the Hudson
River waterfront for a few blocks and then continues northward,
paralleling Tenth Avenue to West 30th Street. At 30th it makes a
sharp turn west and wraps around the West Side Yard, a large rail
yard adjacent to Penn Station where the Long Island Rail Road
stores trains. The High Lines northern end touches West 34th Street
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Pershing Square
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ELEVENTH AVENUE

TENTH AVENUE

NINTH AVENUE
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S ID E
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Flyover
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elevator information
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stairs food

WEST 23RD STREET

restrooms shop

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access via ramp
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Chelsea Thicket
WEST 20TH STREET

WEST 18TH STREET

Tenth Avenue Square 5

Northern Spur Preserve

Chelsea Market
Passage 3 WEST 15TH STREET

Sundeck & water feature WEST 14TH STREET

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Bridge This skybridge over West 15th Street, as
seen from the High Line, connected the factory ET
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and offices of the National Biscuit Company, OR
2EVO
better known as Nabisco. Today the factory is Overlook GA
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Chelsea Market, and the bridge is somewhat
reminiscent of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice.
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Straight ahead Looking north toward the massive
5 4 Hudson Yards project as the High Line cuts a straight
line through a dense cluster of older, converted
industrial buildings and newer residential blocks.
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Tenth Avenue The city becomes the stage through a

5 large panoramic window in the Tenth Avenue Square.
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across from the Javits Center.
Those 2 kilometers are filled with trees, bushes,
flowers, and other plants, which in turn are abuzz with
insects and alive with singing birds. Visitors wend their
way along a path through and under and in between
the densely-packed buildings of a former industrial
district, now being turned into high-priced apartments,
condominiums, offices, and incubator space for startups
and entrepreneurs.
We visited for the first time shortly after we moved
to New York three years ago, and I finally understood
what all the buzz was about I was a convert.
That first visit was to the first two phases of
the High Line that were then open: phase 1, from
Gansevoort Street to West 20th Street, which opened 8
June 2009, and phase 2, from 20th to West 30th Street,
which opened 7 June 2011.
And last month, on 21 September, the highly-
anticipated phase 3, which comprises the remainder
of the High Line from 30th to West 34th Street, finally
opened to the public. I was excited to see the completed
project, so the next day, on 22 September, Colin and I
went to check it out. We started at the southern end and
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walked through phases 1 and 2 before walking through
6 7 8
phase 3.
Diamond skin Many of Chimney art Art Fire escape Older
If Im honest, phase 3 was a bit of a letdown. The the new buildings along inhabits both the High buildings along the High
official line is that the northernmost section of the the High Line have bold, Line and the walls of the Line are being restored
park retains the landscape and flora that characterized avant garde design. buildings around it. and reused in a renewed
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9 which will then become a landscaped space
10
9 10
Switch A bit more of Construction sight
the rail infrastructure A forest of scaffolds
for which the High Line at 10 Hudson Yards,
was first built has been which will be the first
preserved in phase 3. completed tower in the
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largely, as we lay people would call them,
weeds. On a bright, sunny day, it feels incredibly
exposed: not only do the dense buildings below
West 30th Street give way to the wide openness
of the West Side Yard, the Hudson River, and
the open streets around, but there are few trees
in phase 3. Altogether it lacks the feeling of
enclosure like a leafy, green security blanket
almost that, for me, makes the first two
phases of the park so special.
Beyond that, the platform being
constructed over the West Side Yard on which
the massive Hudson Yards project is being built
will eventually be at the level of the High Line,
on the perimeter of the Hudson Yards. Part of
what makes the High Line so special is that it is
elevated above the surrounding city, separated
and offering a respite from it. Doesnt that go
away if the surrounding city is brought up to the
same level?
Thats not to say theres nothing to like
in phase 3. One highlight is a sunken area
above West 30th Street where children can
crawl hamster-like through tunnels and
compartments. This is also the part of the line
where one can best see that it was at one time
a functioning rail line, with more of the rails
and ties left in place, and even the occasional
switch machinery which has been removed in
the other phases of the line, left in place here.
And the views of the West Side Yard, Midtown
Manhattan, and the Hudson River are sweeping
that is, until the rail yard and Midtown are
obscured by the Hudson Yards.
Itself obscured by a lack of vision, the High
Line, like so much of the most beloved parts of
our cityscape, was almost demolished. (Parts
of it, totaling about half the original viaducts
length, were in fact dismantled in 1960 and
1991.) Now its transformation is finished, and it
creates a green ribbon of respite through some
of the densest development on earth. It has
been 80 years since freight trains traveled the
West Side Line in 1934, and 34 since the viaduct
closed in 1980. It has been well worth the
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Urban explorer Colin looks out over the Flyover.
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Rail yard Out-of-service Long Island Rail Road trains
await the afternoon rush hour as Midtown looms beyond.
One day this view of both the yard and the skyline will be
obscured by the Hudson Yards.
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LIRR A dual-mode engine which can run on both third-
rail electrical power on western Long Island and diesel
power in the east sits in the West Side Yard.
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THE

DANBURY
R A I LWAY
M U S E U M
DA N B U RY, C O N N E C TI C U T
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BY DUSTIN

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ALCO 2-6-0 Mogul (1907)
Boston & Maine 1455
This steam engine was
built by the American
Locomotive Company,
or ALCO, in Manchester,
New Hampshire.
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spread, PAGES 2021
EMD FL-9 (1960)
New York Central 2013
Built by Electro-Motive
Diesel (EMD) and painted
in New York Central
Lightning Stripes by
Metro-North to celebrate
the 150th anniversary of rail
service on the New York
Central Hudson Division.
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INSET, PAGE 21
A lantern hangs from a post
outside the railway post
office car.
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s I complete my quest to ride
A all the rails in Greater New York
including the regions three
commuter railroads, the Long Island Rail
Road, Metro-North, and NJ Transit its
nice to have something actually to go to
at the end of each line. Such was the case
in our last issue, when I wrote about my
visit in July 2014 to The Glass House,
the residence of the late architect Philip
Johnson in New Canaan, Connecticut, at
the end of the shortest and westernmost of
the three branches off Metro-Norths New
Haven Line (see Dialann 15.12).
The following month, in August 2014,
our entire family took a day trip on Metro-
North along the next of the New Haven
Lines branches going east, to the end of the
line in Danbury, Connecticut. And what
did we go to at the end of the line? A railway
museum, of course!
The Danbury Railway Museum is
housed in the citys former Union Station,
which was built in 1903 following the
consolidation of the three railroads that
served Danbury the Danbury and
Norwalk, Housatonic, and New York and
New England into the New York, New
Haven, and Hartford Railroad. In its heyday
in the early 20th century, the station was
served by as many as 125 trains a day. After
World War II, passenger ridership declined,
as it did pretty much everywhere else in
the country, and the number of trains
dwindled. So did Danburys downtown as
shoppers fled to a new mall built on the
citys former fairgrounds 4 kilometers (2.5
miles) to the southwest. But the old train
station held on and escaped the wrecking
ball, and it was added to the National
Register of Historic Places in 1986.
In 1993, however, the buildings use as
an actual train station came to an end when
Metro-North closed the station in favor of
a stop just down the block. Danbury now
sees 28 trains a day on weekdays, 14 to and
14 from New York, most of which require a
connection at South Norwalk or Stamford.
There are just 12 trains a day 6 in each
direction on weekends. The present station
is a five-minute walk from the museum.
But thanks in part to the foresight of
the citys then-mayor, Gene Eriquez, who
didnt want to lose another downtown
building to urban blight, a group of local
railfans and volunteers got together to open
a railway museum in the old station and
its adjacent railyard. On 29 October 1995,
with the mayor in attendance, the restored
station was dedicated, and in 1996 the
museum opened.
Today the station building houses a
gift shop, a collection of vintage railroad
memorabilia, and, of course, a model
railroad. Outside in the yard there are over
60 pieces of rolling stock, ranging from
engines to passenger coaches to freight
cars. Most of yard exhibits can be viewed
just from the outside, but there are a few
cars visitors can go into. Our favorite was a
vintage railway post office.
After our visit to the museum, we had
lunch at a nearby pizzeria and took a quick
jaunt down Danburys Main Street, lined
with trees and a number of nicely restored
old buildings. Then it was back home, on
the train of course, with one more segment
of Greater New Yorks passenger rail
network and one more railway museum
checked off on our list. d
editors note: Much of the information
and some of the text in this article and the
accompanying captions are from Wikipedia
and the Danbury Railway Museums website,
danburyrailwaymuseum.org.
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Class PBr Coach Bethlehem Steel (1925) Reading 1547
This passenger car was built in 1925 by Bethlehem Steel. The backs
of the rattan seats could be moved to either side of the seat to allow
passengers to face toward the front or the back.
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TOP right
PRR Class BNM-70 Baggage/Railway Post Office Car PRR 6507/6563
This railway post office was built in February 1910 for the Pennsylvania
Railroad and has been completely restored. It was our favorite car at
the museum.
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BOTTOM LEFT BOTTOM right

EMD FL-9 (1955) New Haven 2006 Susan, Colin, and Fiona take a short break from exploring trains.
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 B O O K R E P O RT

Can a book about maps really expand

a geography junkies mind?
BY DUSTIN

have always been a geography junkie.

I Well, at least since 2nd grade anyway. Thats
when my Aunt Linda gave me a Fisher-Price
Discovery Map of the United States. Each state had
a small hole in it that displayed a picture, and on the
left-hand side of the map that was a light-blue dial. As
On the Map: A
you turned the dial, the pictures displayed a different
Mind-expanding piece of info for each state, including its capital
Exploration of which is how I learned the capitals of all 50 states by
the age of 8.
the Way the
That map was probably the foundation of the
World Looks geography knowledge that led me to win my middle
by Simon Garfield schools geography bee all three years I was there, and
to win third place in the state geography bee when I
Edition published by was in 7th grade.
Gotham Books, So I was eager to read On the Map: A Mind-
New York, 2013 expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
by Simon Garfield, whose Just My Type A Book
About Fonts I had read previously (see Dialann
A Fisher-Price Discovery Map of the United States,
12.13). Mr. Garfield didnt disappoint.
circa 1989. (Thanks, Etsy shop specializing in vintage
The easiest way to explain what On the Map
products, for this otherwise impossible-to-find image!)
is about is to say that its a history of cartography.
The image in the little peephole in each state is
Which is true, but only partially. The book is
changed using the blue dial, which switches among six
organized in exactly the same way as Just My Type:
categories: capital, scenery, landmark, person, fun fact 1,
generally in historical order, but the chapters are
and fun fact 2.
organized a little more thematically than they are
ROWAN FLETCHER-GIBBS VIA THE JUNKIN SAILOR/ETSY
chronologically. So while earlier chapters deal with IMG0.ETSYSTATIC.COM/004/0/8086796/IL_570XN.469631940_HIAE.JPG
ancient thinkers and the great explorers of the Age
of Exploration and later chapters deal with digital
cartography and GPS, the reader will not necessarily probably longer than it needs to be, with 445 pages
come away with a list of the dates when technological (including acknowledgments), 22 chapters (albeit
innovations happened or why or by whom. usually short chapters), 15 interstitials, a foreword,
As in Just My Type, between many of the an introduction, and an epilogue (and a bibliography
chapters is a short interstitial, with a brief story and index, which bring the total length to 464 pages,
relating to or expanding on the surrounding chapters. not including the contents and other front matter).*
Many of the books best tidbits are found in these. The particular edition I read, published by Gotham
In one, for example, Mr. Garfield explains that the Books in 2013, appears to have been edited for an
common belief that the phrase Here be dragons American audience, trading British spellings such
marked unknown regions on old maps is simply as organise for their American equivalents. But only
untrue: there is no record that Hic sunt dracones clumsily so. Generally, the language has not been
appeared on any old map. In later ones, Mr. Garfield translated, leading to an awkward mix of American
explores the map room that helped Winston spellings and British phrases. And once I ran across a
Churchill and his allies win the Second World War, boot (instead of a car trunk).
gender differences in reading maps, and why people But, in the end, can it live up to its claim that it
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is mind-expanding? Well, in my case, it certainly
believed it was plausible that Mars had canals can. The final chapters close the book with an
indeed, a planet-wide irrigation system built by exploration of all the places we find maps in the world
intelligent life. today, including video games, such as Skyrim, that
Also as with Just My Type, sometimes On the are essentially giant maps (and apparently come with
Map can be a bit dry; it is, after all, a book about printed maps to help players navigate them). Theres
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The cover of the 29 March 1976 issue of The New Yorker,
featuring Saul Steinbergs famous illustration View of the
World from 9th Avenue. This cover was parodied by The
Economist (inset) on the cover of its issue for 2127 March
2009, on the 33rd anniversary of The New Yorkers cover.
for the 29 March 1976 issue of The New Yorker, a New
Yorkers view of the world which shows, in typical
self-absorbed New York fashion, an outsized and
overly important Manhattan, along with everything
else. And the last numbered chapter in the book, 22,
is on Mapping the Brain. Though I was certainly
familiar with that phrase and concept, it hadnt
occurred to me that encephalography should be
included in a book about cartography.
Maps have
become so ubiquitous
in our world today
that its easy to forget
how much we rely
upon them. After all,
I carry what is quite
possibly the most
detailed map of the
world ever created,
Google Maps, around
with me every day
in my pocket. At
any moment, I can
open a new tab in my
internet browser and find a map of almost any place
on the planet, including a full-color satellite image
and, increasingly, recent imagery of what it looks like
from the street. In such a world, its easy, even for a
geography junkie like me, to forget how important
and difficult a science cartography is, and how special
maps are. Even I am far removed from my days of
poring over maps of states, metropolitan areas, and
city centers in my moms Rand McNally Road Atlas
(thankfully, I still have a road atlas myself, though, it
dates from 2007 and, sadly, probably hasnt been on a
road trip with me since then).
Mr. Garfield perhaps said it best: The resulting
maps also have an effect on the way we learn to
see things. When were looking at maps on our
dashboard or on phones as we walk, we tend not to
look around or up so much. It is now entirely possible
to travel many hundreds of miles to the other end
of a country, perhaps, or even a continent without
having the faintest clue about how we got there.
A victory for GPS, a loss for geography, history,
navigation, maps, human communications and the
sense of being connected to the world all around us
(page 384). d
* Add this sentence to the list of things that are probably
longer than they need to be.
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WE BELIEVE IN CHRIST
Preparing for a mission
A talk Dustin gave in the sacrament meeting of the Pineville Ward,
Charlotte North Carolina South Stake, Sunday, 23 July 2000.
BY DUSTIN
This is the fourth and final installment this year in which we record the
talks Dustin gave in church as a youth.
ood morning! My name is Dustin Joyce. For those
G of you who dont know my family and me, we actually used
to live in this ward back when it was the Third Ward, but
we ended up in Fourth Ward, or Carmel Ward, when the boundaries
were redrawn. But, now were back. I just havent been in this
ward a lot because things would come up and it would be more
convenient for me to attend Carmel Ward. But Im here today, since
I have to give this talk.
In January, Ill be turning nineteen. At that time Ill be donning
the dark suit, name tag, and bike helmet that characterize the
Churchs missionaries around the world. At this time, Im preparing
to serve a mission, and thats what my topic is today: preparing for a
mission.
At the mini Missionary Training Center that this stake had with
the Central Stake at the beginning of last year, participants were
given something that President Hinckley once said. It was a list of
ten gifts that the Churchs missionaries should bring home with
them from their missions. Those ten things are:
1. Knowledge of God and Christ.
2. Knowledge [of ] and love for scriptures.
3. Increased love for parents.
4. Love [for] people who[m] you serve.
5. Appreciation for hard work.
6. Knowledge of importance of teamwork.
7. Recognition of importance of good dress and demeanor.
8. Appreciation of the beauty and value of personal virtue.
9. Faith to act and courage to try.
10. Humility to pray.1
In my talk today, Id like to present ten2 things that future
missionaries can work on now to help prepare them serve missions
from which they can bring these ten gifts home.
1 Want to serve a mission
I dont believe that youll do anything as well as you should do it
unless you want to do it. Same goes for a mission. You need to want
to serve a mission. Wanting to serve a mission is the first step in
choosing to serve a mission.
To you young men in the congregation: you know that you
should serve a mission. Your parents and Church leaders have
told you you should, and youve seen the examples of many of the
men around you in serving a mission. A President of the Church,
President Kimball, if Im not mistaken, once said that you dont
have to go on a mission. Young men are only as obligated to go on
a mission as they are to pay tithing, attend Church meetings each
Sunday, and obey the commandments. Proclaiming the gospel to
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the world is a part of the three-fold mission of the Church, and its a
commandment.3
And I know that some of you who should and need to serve a
mission dont want to. So youll have to start a little bit farther back.
Want to want to serve a mission. Its kind of like what Alma said
about faith in the Book of Mormon:
But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties,
even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a
particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to
believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in
a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.4
You can want to have faith if you dont already have it, and you
can want to want to serve a mission if you dont already want to
serve a mission. But, no matter where you begin, at some point you
must want to serve.
2 Choose to serve a mission
The next step is to choose to serve a mission. You can want to
serve a mission all you want, but until you choose to serve a mission,
it aint happenin. Consciously choosing and making it a goal to
serve a mission will help get the ball rolling, so to speak, on the
rest of your preparation to serve. When you and your parents and
the other people around you who can help you prepare know that
you have chosen to go, you can then begin working on some of the
other things that I will be talking about. It all begins with a choice.
3 Learn to recognize and invite the Spirit
Learn to recognize the Spirit. More than anyone or anything on
your mission, the Spirit will be your guide, it will be your motivator.
But there is someone out there who absolutely does not want you to
serve a mission and tell the world about the truth that you know I
think we all know who that someone is and you must be able to
distinguish between the feelings hell give you and the feelings that
the Spirit of the Lord will give you.
Recognizing and using the Spirit for the time of your mission
will give you incredible experience in recognizing and using the
Spirit throughout your life. In life, theres no greater guide or gift
that you can have than the Holy Ghost. With his guidance you
can make any decision you need help with, such as where to go to
college, what to study and college and what to do as a career, where
to live, and whom to marry, among many, many others. He will help
you when youre having problems, he will comfort you, and he will
help give you the greatest joy you can have in life. And learning who
he is and what hes all about may just begin in the mission field for
many of you.
Once youve learned to recognize the Spirit, learn how to
invite him and the feelings he brings back into your life often. There
are many, many ways you can invite the Spirit into any situation.
Bearing testimony, singing a hymn, praying these
are just a few of the very obvious ways to invite the
Holy Ghost into your life often. Use them, practice
them, and the Spirit that you will have as you prepare
to serve an honorable, full time mission will greatly
help you and will be something that you take with
you on your mission.

4 Get to know the scriptures

Get to know the scriptures. They will be your
textbooks in teaching and your instruction manuals
in life. For example, as you are preparing for a
mission and as you are on a mission, one section of
the Doctrine and Covenants will greatly guide you
in all you do and say. Some call it the Missionary
Constitution. Its Section 4, and, just in case you
havent heard it before, here it is:

Now behold, a marvelous work is about to

come forth among the children of men.
Therefore, O ye that embark in the
service of God, see that ye serve him with
all your heart, might, mind and strength,
that ye may stand blameless before God at
the last day.
Therefore, if ye have desires to serve God
ye are called to the work;
For behold the field is white already to
harvest; and lo, he that thrusteth in his Jew first, and also to the Greek.7 Dustin (left) as a
sickle with his might, the same layeth up missionary in the Utah
in store that he perisheth not, but bringeth
salvation to his soul;
And faith, hope, charity and love, with an
6 Earn money
Earn money. You will have a greater experience
on a mission if you help pay your own way. Work at a
Salt Lake City South
Mission in February
2002 with one of his
eye single to the glory of God, qualify him job where youll be comfortable and where you want companions, Elder
for the work. to be, but dont be prideful in choosing one. And David Joel Glassett. They
Remember faith, virtue, knowledge, save the money! You can go without something that served together in the
temperance, patience, brotherly kindness, you want in order to save the money you would have Bennion Utah Stake from
godliness, charity, humility, diligence. spent on it. Most likely, youll have to go without that 28 November 2001 to
Ask, and ye shall receive; knock, and it thing while youre on your mission, so why not start 20 February 2002.
shall be opened unto you. Amen.5 going without it now?

If you are in seminary or have yet to begin seminary,

heres a word of advice: learn your scripture mastery
scriptures! They contain the gospel in a nutshell, and
youll have to memorize many of them at the MTC
anyway.
7 Learn to know and love foreign cultures
Brother Jim McCulloch, at his son Paces
missionary farewell last Sunday, mentioned that out
of all the advice he was given when he was leaving on
his mission years ago, three items of advice proved to
be the most helpful. He called them the Three Ls of

5 Be excited about the gospel

Be excited about the gospel. People arent going
to be interested in what you have to say if you say
Missionary Work, and they are:

1. Love the people.

it like this: We believe in God, [yawn] the Eternal
Father, and in his [yawn] Son, Jesus Christ, and in
the Holy Ghost [yawn].6 Paul was excited about
the gospel, and he spent his entire life after his
conversion as a missionary. This is what he said to the
members of the Church in Rome:
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of
Christ: for it is the power of God unto
salvation to every one that believeth; to the
2. Live the mission rules.
3. Learn to cook.
They have a lot to do with the next three things that
Im going to talk about. The first is the necessity to
know and love foreign cultures. You must love the
people you serve and whom you teach. Without that
love, youll have no success.
Become familiar with cultures around the world.
You might not get called to a foreign mission, but you

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still need to know how people around the world live,
because theres still a chance you may be called to
serve among them. If you know how they live before
you go out in the mission field, it wont be such a
shock once you get there. If you have the opportunity
to travel to a foreign country, or even to another part
of the United States believe me, some parts of
America can seem like a foreign country take it!
Take a foreign language in school to help familiarize
yourself with how to learn a foreign language and
also to familiarize yourself with other cultures. Watch
PBS! Just do whatever it takes to get to love people
who arent like you before youre among them. It will
be easier over here.
Along with learning to know and love foreign
cultures comes learning to eat varied and strange
foods. I have a problem with this one. No matter
where you get called, you may have to eat some
foods that youre not familiar with. You either starve
or learn. Even in the United States, cuisine can vary
greatly from one region to another, and even from
one house to another, with the melting pot of cultures
were blessed to have here in America. Like before, if
you learn now, itll be easier once you get out there.
9 Learn to do housework
Speaking of food, let me return to the three
Ls of missionary work: learn to cook. Learn to do
household chores. When youre out in the mission
field, mom and dad arent there to do the dishes,
cook, shop, clean everything, and do all the other
things they do. You have to handle it all for yourself.
Learn to do it before you go.
10 Live a morally clean life
Finally, Id like to talk about the last of
the three Ls: live the mission rules. Get practice
doing that now. Live lifes mission rules: obey
the commandments and keep the promises and
covenants youve already made and will make before
and after you go on a mission.
A lot can be said, of course, about living a
morally clean life. There are reminders of being
morally clean all around us. Heres just a short list of
things that and people who remind us to live good
lives: parents; teachers; friends; Church leaders;
general authorities, apostles; prophets; CTR rings;
the scriptures; For the Strength of Youth; church
books, videos, music, and magazines the list goes
on and on. But Id like to mention something that the
Prophet said when he was here8 a few years ago: the
five bes that he told us to be in his talk:
1. Be grateful.
2. Be clean.
3. Be smart.
4. Be true.
5. Be humble.9
Follow these words of advice from the Prophet
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as you are preparing for a mission, follow the
commandments, and keep the promises and
covenants that you have made and that you will make,
and youll certainly have the Lords help in preparing
for a mission, and when the Lords on your side, you
cannot fail.
Conclusion
Going on a mission will be one of the greatest
experiences youll ever have. Almost nowhere else
can you gain the amount of knowledge about the
gospel, life, yourself, and the world around as you
will during the eighteen months or two years of your
The question is mission. In order to be successful on your mission,
frequently asked: begin preparing for it now. Talk it over with your
Should every parents, your Church leaders, your Heavenly Father,
and even your friends. Figure out how to handle
young man fill a things like college and financing. Decide whats best
mission? And the for you. But remember that, if youre a young man,
answer has been going on a mission is the best thing you can do at that
point in your life.
given by the Lord. I know that sending missionaries throughout the
It is Yes. Every world is one of the best things that the Church can
young man should do. I know that what the missionaries teach is true:
the Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that he is the
fill a mission.
Every man should
Savior of the world; that the books that testify of him,
the Bible and the Book of Mormon, are true; that the
man who brought us the Book of Mormon, Joseph
also pay his Smith, is a prophet of God; and that the Church has
tithing. Every man continued to be led by the Lord Jesus Christ through
Joseph Smiths successors as President of the Church,
should observe the and that our prophet today, President Gordon B.
Sabbath. Every Hinckley, leads us by divine inspiration. I know these
man should attend things are true and I say them in the name of our Lord
his meetings. Every
man should marry
and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. d
NOTES
in the temple and 1. Slightly different versions of this list were printed in The
New Era, March 2007, pages 24, and the Church News, 23
properly train his December 1995
children, and do 2. I noticed only when I was laying out this article that the talk
actually includes only nine things, not tenI inadvertently
many other mighty skipped number 8 when I recorded this talk in my journal
works. Of course back in 2000 (and, I presume, when I presented it).
3. Yes, President Kimball did say that: Ensign, October 1974,
he should.3 page 8; Aaronic Priesthood Manual 3 (1995 edition), lesson
PRESIDENT 25
SPENCER W. KIMBALL 4. Alma 32:27
5. Doctrine and Covenants 4
6. First Article of Faith
7. Romans 1:16
8. President Gordon B. Hinckley, then president of the
Church, spoke at a regional conference in Dustins
hometown, Charlotte, on Sunday, 25 February 1996. The
regional conference was held in the Charlotte Coliseum,
which, notably, is where Dustins high-school graduation
also took place. The Coliseum was demolished on 3 June
2007.
9. President Hinckley added to this list in later talks and in his
PAINTING OF PRESIDENT book Way to Be!
KIMBALL BY JUDITH A. MEHR,
COURTESY OF
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST Also check out Ten Things to Know Before You Go by
OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS President James E. Faust, The New Era, July 2002, page 4
 few months after we moved to New
A York, I was on the L train on my way to
school in the morning. I was standing near
one of the doors when I realized something was
happening near the next set of doors. Im not sure
if I heard something, or if I noticed everyone else
looking, but I looked in that direction and realized
that a girl, probably in middle school, was throwing
up on the floor. No one moved. She was by herself
(meaning that she wasnt with a friend or a parent,
though obviously she wasnt actually all alone). I
couldnt believe that no one was doing anything at all.
Some people looked at her, and others sort of tried
to ignore her. But no one did or said anything. So I
walked over and asked if I could do something for
her. Of course I couldnt really do much; what can
you ever do for someone whos throwing up? But one
thing you can do is make sure they dont feel all alone,
which Im sure she did at that moment. She asked
if I had a tissue. I didnt, so I asked everyone else
around if they had one. Three or four people offered
up tissues and napkins. Another lady offered her a
cough drop to take the taste out of her mouth. I asked
if she was going to school or going home, and she said
she had to go to school because she had a test. For

Even in a city full of strangers goodness sake, she did not need to go to school, and
I told her that her teacher wouldnt mind her staying

others in need dont have to suffer home if shes sick, but she said she had to go.

BY SUSAN
I have thought before that it would be kind of awful
for my water to break on the subway when Im
all alone, meaning that everyone around me is a
stranger. It is just beyond awkward to have some
kind of sudden physical problem, especially a messy
one, around strangers. I decided that if I ever see
a womans water break in public, I will introduce
myself and hang out with her until she gets where she
needs to go or someone she knows arrives, because I
know I wouldnt want to be all alone in a situation
like that. Very often, we cant fix someones problems,
but we can be there with them so they dont have to
deal with those problems alone. d

Susan shared this story with our family in family home

evening on 4 August 2014.

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N O T I F I C AT I O N S
JULYSEPTEMBER 2014
FA C E B O O K
SUSAN 2 July 2014, 20.17
Impressive, eh?
SUSAN DUSTIN 7 July 2014, 17.20
Fiona just walked up and gave me a hug and
said, Im so glad you fixed the toilet paper
holder! and walked away.
DUSTIN 8 July 2014, 7.57
Its spelled whoa. And, yes, I will judge
you if you spell it another way.
SUSAN 15 July 2014, 9.47
We have a four-year-old! She has grown half
an inch since last night, and she even made
her first [intentional] phone call.
DUSTIN 21 July 2014, 21.29
Ive never read the Doctrine and Covenants
in French. So I think I will.
DUSTIN 23 July 2014, 16.46
Its surprising to me how often, when a kid
at the playground wants to play with one of
Fionas toys, he/she will come up and ask
ME if he/she can play with it. Im always
like, Kid, its not my toy. Ask HER if you
can play with it.
DUSTIN 1 August 2014, 21.24
If youve ever thought the war chapters in
Alma go on and on, try reading them, six
verses a day, with a four-year-old. They
become interminable.
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DUSTIN 3 August 2014, 19.58
The past three days have been among
the greatest in my life, because Ive had a
chocolate milkshake each day.
Also because, each time I do, the song
Milkshake by Kelis starts running through
my head.
DUSTIN 5 August 2014, 19.07
Ive come to the sad realization that new
clothes cant make me look younger. They
can, however, make me look cooler. So,
even if I still look like a thirty-something
dad, at least Im a cool-looking thirty-
something dad.
SUSAN 6 August 2014, 11.27
Mom, hes in a hot air balloon!
DUSTIN 8 August 2014, 22.00
We came. We auditioned. We got rejected.
But thats okay. Im not bitter. I havent seen
their stupid show since high school anyway.
Those people cant help it if they suck.
feeling definitely not disappointed with
Susan Hibdon
DUSTIN 12 August 2014, 23.35
Two things about Fiona today that prove
that shes The Coolest.
1. She made a verb out of the word hotel,
as in, I cant wait until we go hoteling
again! *
2. I found her singing Down to the River
to Pray to herself as we were getting ready
to leave this morning. No Frozen or other
Disney songs around here! If our kids are
going to sing to themselves, Id much rather
it be a traditional American spiritual.
* The hotel part is likely not the main thing
shes looking forward to. Its probably more
about what we usually do when we stay in
a hotel: order pizza, drink soda, and watch
a movie.
DUSTIN 19 August 2014, 23.26
Is it inappropriate to put pork barbecue on
a challah roll?
DUSTIN 22 August 2014, 22.39
Now, 63 chapters, 1,975 verses, and Ive lost
track of how many months later, we are
finally done reading Alma with Fiona.
SUSAN, 23 August 2014, 22.36
I think the time has finally come for me
to dispose of my ion flashcards from AP
Chemistry. And, in case youre wondering
tooI have no idea what chemical I spilled
on them to make those brown spots.
SUSAN 23 August 2014, 22.57
Quote from an essay I wrote comparing
the four books I was supposed to read the
summer before AP English: I suppose that
since the definition of a plot is a problem
that needs to be solved, the AP Board
decided the bigger and more the problems,
the better the book.
SUSAN 24 August 2014, 16.35
The master chef at work. I guess she
decided to get started on dinner while I was
taking a nap.
DUSTIN 26 August 2014, 16.58
You shouldnt smoke. But if youre going
to smoke, at least dispose of your cigarette
in an appropriate receptacle. But if youre
going to toss it on the ground, at least use

your foot to extinguish it, you lazy jerk.
DUSTIN 28 August 2014, 9.51
On a sheet from the CDC that Susan and I
received at Fionas pre-k orientation:
Act early by talking to your childs doctor if
your child Resists dressing, sleeping, and
using the toilet
Um, there are four-year-olds who DONT
resist doing those things? Those exist?!
DUSTIN 29 August 2014, 12.35
You know the United States Postal Service
has seen better days when you can say, Oh,
theres a crappy building. Must be the post
office Im looking for. And youre right.
DUSTIN 8 September 2014, 9.32
Fionas first full day of pre-k.
Okay, so Ill admit it: its more emotional
than I thought it would be.
SUSAN 12 September 2014, 22.27
Time for our bye bye pacifier sleepover!
DUSTIN 23 September 2014, 23.51
This photo hangs in a frame next to Fionas
bed, and last night before bed Fiona got
it down to show to Colin. This is how she
explained whos pictured:
This is my mom, and this is Fiona, and this
is my favorite person, my dad.
Now, lest you feel sorry for Susan, dont
worry: in a week or two, Fiona will switch
and say that her mother is her favorite
person. Its sort of what she does. In the
meantime, Im happy to claim the title for
now.
DUSTIN 29 September 2014, 22.43
Sometimes living in New York has its
advantages. Like when the state pays you
$350 to convince you that taxes arent too
high.
TWITTER
@SEOIGH 2 July 2014, 16.16
Just ate too many Oreos in less than 24
hours. (Of course, is that really possible? Is
too many Oreos a known quantity in the
universe?)
@SEOIGH 3 July 2014, 17.18
Should I mock someone who pronounces
tomatillo as if it were an English word?
@SEOIGH 3 July 2014, 18.54
Resisting the urge to go to Target just
because its there.
@SEOIGH 4 July 2014, 17.21
I love that its the #4thofJuly and Im cold.
#NYC #weather
@SEOIGH 5 July 2014, 9.01
Its 5 July and Im sitting here with a
sweatshirt on.
#NYC #weather #loveit
@SEOIGH 8 July 2014, 17.51
Showtime is the most dreadful word in
the English language.
#NYC #NYCsubway
@SEOIGH 24 July 2014, 20.08
This is the main reason I donate blood: an
excuse to eat these. (And all they cost was a
pint of blood!)
@SEOIGH 5 August 2014, 22.10
The evidence is mounting that the
#Bushwick #postoffice, 1369 Broadway,
#Brooklyn, is the worst one in the country.
#NYC @USPS
@SEOIGH 11 August 2014, 8.13
Is it just me, or does holding a CD induce
a tinge of nostalgia, like holding some relic
from a bygone era?
@SEOIGH 8 July 2014, 20.42
This place.
#Manhattan #NYC #Mormon #LDS
@SEOIGH 15 August 2014, 13.03
Love the #DCMetro. Do not miss the
annoying doors closing voice.
#DC
@SEOIGH 28 August 2014, 9.00
I have come to learn that right of way
does not exist in the New Yorkers
vocabulary. They either give it or take it
when they shouldnt.
@SEOIGH 29 August 2014, 8.58
@krispykreme > @DunkinDonuts
Just saying.
#donuts #orisitdoughnuts
@SEOIGH 29 August 2014, 12.29
You know @USPS is in trouble when you
can say, Oh, theres a crappy building.
Must be the post office Im looking for.
And youre right.
@SEOIGH 30 August 2014, 18.36
#NYC is amazing. Just when you think
youve found the nastiest grocery store on
earth, you can always find one thats even
nastier.
@SEOIGH 10 September 2014, 21.05
Watching #POTUSs address. Which always
raises a good question for me: why are
American podiums so ugly?
@SEOIGH 18 September 2014, 13.13
Cant say Id want to do it all the time, but
sometimes sitting here and spending the
day playing the stock market is sort of fun.
@SEOIGH 24 September 2014, 10.28
Just attended my first PTA meeting as a
parent. It may be my last.
@SEOIGH 25 September 2014, 16.26
Made it to #BayHead on @NJTRANSITs
North Jersey Coast Line. 1,222 mi/1,966.6
km/89% of #1380miles completed. #NJCL
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@DTJOYCE 1 July 2014 @DTJOYCE 23 July 2014 @DTJOYCE 8 August 2014

Tribeca Hell Gate Bridge Prospect Park Long Meadow
Street name in decorative brick on an old Worlds awesomest spot for a bike path.
building in #Tribeca. #nofilter #NYC One need never leave the
confines of New York to get all
the greenery one wishes I
cant even enjoy a blade of grass
unless I know theres a subway
handy, or a record store or some
other sign that people do not
totally regret life.
Frank OHara
#NYC #Brooklyn #ProspectPark

@DTJOYCE 1 July 2014 @DTJOYCE 5 August 2014

Federal Hall 34 St-Herald Square Station
Dome. Up and down. #NYC #NYCsubway

@DTJOYCE 28 August 2014

Queensboro Plaza
A 7 train arrives at Queensboro Plaza
as New York Citys new second tallest
building, 432 Park Avenue, rises in the
background. Its 1,397 feet (425.8 m)
@DTJOYCE 7 July 2014 @DTJOYCE 22 August 2014 tall, even taller than the Empire State
Brooklyn Bridge Rockaway, Queens Building.
A morning walk with Colin. At the beach. #NYC #NYCsubway #Queens #nofilter

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@DTJOYCE 23 August 2014 @DTJOYCE 20 September 2014 @DTJOYCE 26 September 2014
Just something we ran across in the Roosevelt Island Tramway Jefferson Market Library
neighborhood. Its pretty rare to find a car First Avenue, Manhattan. No matter how many Im grateful to live in a place where public
thats as short as a four-year-old. times I ride this, these views never get old. libraries look like this.

@DTJOYCE 6 September 2014 @DTJOYCE 26 September 2014 @DTJOYCE 28 September 2014

Eleven Madison Park Hoboken Terminal Growing up in New York: Chess with
Metropolitan Life. Tiffany stained glass. friends in the stairwell.

@DTJOYCE 19 September 2014 @DTJOYCE 26 September 2014 @DTJOYCE 29 September 2014

Rector Street Hoboken Terminal #Brooklyn #architecture under a Brooklyn
Seen on a shoe store in Lower Manhattan. Almost home. blue sky. #NYC #nofilter
At least theyre honest?
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First day of
school. Ever.
8 September 2014, 15.02 edt
Fiona is excited after a
successful first-ever day of
school. She is in Ms. Gomezs
prekindergarten class at P.S. 147
Isaac Remsen here in Brooklyn.

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Wiehle-Reston East
The first phase of the D.C. Metros long-awaited Silver Line finally opened 26 July. Dustin and Fiona spent the
weekend with Nana, Randy, and Amanda at their home in Frederick, Maryland, 1417 August. Of course Dustin
and Fiona went to check out the new line and the five stations in its first phase. Wiehle-Reston East is the lines
current western terminus, though phase 2 will add six additional stations and take the Silver Line into Loudoun
County, Virginia, via a stop at Washington Dulles International Airport. Phase 2 is projected to open in 2018.
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