Baltimore - 2006


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"Welcome to the.... FOURTH BIENNIAL NATIONAL
CHENOWETH FAMILY REUNION."

Place: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

Dates: AUGUST 2 - 6, 2006

Our hostess, Lois Akehurst and her children, welcomed the cousins back home to Maryland. Since 2002, at Elkins, West Virginia, the Akehursts planned this Arthur and Richard homecoming celebration.

The hosts established the Holiday Inn in Timonium, Maryland, as our fourth reunion site.

The Holiday Inn Select Baltimore-North

Mary and George pose at the Chenoweth welcome sign.

Family patriarch, Elmer, was able to participate.

Joyce and Richard served as registrars for the reunion throughout the whole preparation and execution time. Many thanks yous due there....

We celebrated eating and partying in our usual fine style. We also had a wedding anniversary party in honor of Mary and John. About the two-hundred-fifth....

The youngest Chenoweth cousins presented a flag ceremony at the outset of the family gathering.

Bill, Ed and Peggy play French salon music from the nineteenth century.

There was fine folk music from the Baltimore scene....

Maricela and Daniel sang songs from Mexico again for us.

At all the odd times and especially in the afternoons, there was the lounge chat sessions.

....the animated digestive track....

Various family groups took time to visit interesting Maryland sites. Here, a gang of Arthurs crash the aquarium and art museum.

One of the tourist destinations was the fine Baltimore Aquarium. Here the dolphins perform....

The main family outing was to Fort McHenry, Inner Harbor and Flag House. Here's the fort's Sally Port which was still secure on the morning of 14 September 1814. We planned to take the big reunion picture here for four years. We did!

McHenry's barracks as seen from a point of a rampart.

The cousins get instruction on life at a fort in the 1800s.

Under cover of darkness, Royal Marines tried to row past the fort using this water route. They never made it ashore. The British admiral said, "To hell with it", the next morning.

Great picture of Greg and Jon. Directly behind them set the British ships of the line. Mr. Francis Scott Key posted himself on the deck of a POW boat to the right and about halfway between dead ahead in this photo and dead ahead in the one above. Literally, "O'er theramparts we watched...." There will be a test.

A "star spangled banner" will always fly over Fort McHenry. Law of the land! It is changed often and awarded to those on a special occasion.

Here the cousins step up and perform the flag change protocal.

Baltimore's Flag House where the Star Spangled Banner was fabricated. The flag is/was larger than the floor plan of the house by several feet. No small task.

Mary Pickersgill owned the house. She contracted to make the flag. She had several assistants. Her picture hangs in the dining room.

The sewing took place on the second floor of the home as there was a breezeway between the two bedrooms.

About half of the cousins visited The Flag House while the rest visited the Inner Harbor and made the best of a large selection of eateries and shopping opportunities.

At the left, Diahan Southard, of Relative Genetics, came to the Chenoweth reunion one more time to present the use of DNA as a tool for creation of genealogical data bases for familes. The response was very positive at this reunion.

No small part of the DNA positive response was due to the fact that Pete was finally able to attend a reunion. He presented his being the liaison officer for the family to Relative Genetics. He has worked in this position for ten years.

Here's the 2006 reunion family photograph. There is an ID Chart in the forms bin. Copies of the photograph are available through the photographer at the Chenoweth Store.

Jon, the family historian, presented two lectures. The first covered the Richard and Arthur lines who initially resided in the Baltimore area. On Saturday evening, he led the anniversary party with historic details on our first family, Mary Calvert and John Chenoweth.

Data processed on October 20, 2006.