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| Where do I start?? I was born in a farm house on Coldwater Lake, Branch Co., MI and have lived in Michigan all my life. Now that I'm retired I have "come home" to Coldwater, so to speak, and purchased a home here - GREAT city, and I love it. I have no immediate family in Michigan, but I live close to my brother and his children and I enjoy greatly seeing them often. My brother was a trumpet player in the Army Band in WW II. |
| I was a
band director in the North Adams, Hudson, Dowagiac, and Olivet public school
systems for 30 years enjoying a lot of success (competitions) and retired
when I was 50 years old. Since then I work a couple of months each
year for a large music company in Lansing traveling to schools around the
state fitting young beginning band students to the proper instrument for
them.
I am still involved in music. I play in the trumpet and percussion sections of the Branch County Community Band and occasionally direct a number. From the members of that group there is also an old style "dance band" where we play big band music from the 40's and 50's. I play trumpet in this group. Hobbies: Genealogy, computers, radio control flying model airplanes, collectables, and in the summertime, I enjoy my boat and spend a lot of time in it cruising the 18 mile long chain of lakes which is near Coldwater. I keep my boat at my brothers waterfront home. And...I do seem to be able to make trips to Mt. Pleasant to the Soaring Eagle casino upon occasion. I have been "into" genealogy for 15 years or so and built 10 county pages for the MIGenWeb early on in 1994, I still maintain them, but they are ALHN now (a couple are "dualies"). I have two wonderful sons, very successful, now living in Virginia and two grandchildren. If you would like to see my personal webpage it is at: http://members.tripod.com/~nvance/ |
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