Happy Birthday Rachel Lefebure Stewart....She Would Have Been 76 Today

Today is Rachel's birthday. She would have been 76 years old today.
If she was still healthy she would be in Scotland with her C&O Canal friends celebrating her birthday as she did the last few years.
They always did a birthday celebration for her.

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Rachel Lefebure Stewart On Our Back Porch Quite A Few Years Ago.

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50 Years Ago Rachel And I Were Living In This Cabin On Lake Ferguson Outside Greenville, Mississippi

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Rachel was pregnant at this time with our first child Lorelei who would be born on September 3rd of 1966.

See this link below for more information on "That Pregnant Summer".
http://joeb-tallyho.blogspot.com/2011/05/cabin-on-lake-ferguson-outside.html

Rachel

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Two Nice Pictures Of Rachel Stewart

Opening Day At Nationals Park Some Years Ago.  It was very cold that day. I heard a beer vendor calling out "Warm beer! Warm beer!".

A very nice picture of Rachel smiling on our back porch

Swain's Lock And Rachel Stewart

"Swains Lock is one of my favorite places. It is quiet, yet relatively close to Great Falls. The canal here is usually full of water and the upper lock gate and the waste weir still function. Beside it sits an old lockhouse, which, up until the 1990s, was home to the Swains, one of the last of the canal families. What a beautiful place to grow up or just to visit.
I love the way the ground at Swains Lock slopes gently down toward the river. Huge oaks and sycamores shade a small campground and several picnic tables. In the spring, bluebells, trilliums, toothworts, and spring beauties blossom beneath them."
Written by Rachel Stewart

Swain's Lockhouse Restoration

The Friends have joined with the C&O Canal Trust, the C&O Canal Association and the National Park Service in a $300,000 project to restore Swain's lockhouse at Lock 21 of the canal. The lockhouse is in dire need of structural and architectural repairs in order to preserve the building. The restored lockhouse will be used for three purposes: a lockhouse in the Trust's Canal Quarters program; a part of the Canal Classrooms education program; and occasionally for exhibits by local photographers and artists.

Funds raised by the Friends and the Association are targeted to furnishing the restored lockhouse and building a lockkeeper's shanty next to the lock, just as when the canal was operational.

The fundraising by the Friends and the Association effort is being done in memory of Rachel Stewart who passed away in 2014. Rachel was a member of the Friends and a long time member of the Association, having served as its President for three terms. To date the Friends and the Association have raised over $10,500 towards our goal of $25,000.

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http://www.fhgft.org/swainshttp://www.fhgft.org/swains/
More on Swains Lock House Renovation in the link below.
 http://www.fhgft.org/swains/history.html

 http://www.fhgft.org/swains/

Rachel Lefebure Stewart's Tiger Lilies Bloomed Today For The First Time This Year

Rachel's Tiger Lilies opened this morning June 5th for the first time this year.

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Remembering Rachel Lefebure Stewart

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Rachel left this note as to her destination.

Remembering Rachel Lefebure Stewart.....She Passed Away 2 Years Ago Today

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The people above are drinking Fireballs. I did not have one.
The picture was taken in Frederick, Maryland on Thanksgiving 2013.
Left to right are: Richard Lefebure, Rachel Lefebure Stewart, Ellen(Lefebure)Larsen. Standing behind Ellen in a green t shirt is Richard's twin brother Regis Lefebure.
On the far right is Elizabeth(Lefebure)O'Neill.
The guy at lower right in the Washington Redskin jersey is Adrian Stewart.

Some Family Pictures

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Above is Ray, Rachel, and myself on a Bateau Mouche in Paris on the Seine.
Bateau is boat and Mouche is a fly. Fly boat.

At home.

Sanibel Island Florida. Last Sunrise that year. Rachel.

Rachel Stewart And Her C&O Canal Friends In 2009 In Serbia At The World Canals Conference

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Rachel & the rest of the C&O Canal Association contingent at the World Canals Conference in September 2009 in Novi Sad, Serbia — with Rachel Stewart, Barbara Edwards Sheridan and Rod Mackler.

Photos Of Rachel Lefebure Stewart

First row. Second from the left. September 2010.

Happy times at a wedding.

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Puppies in Chicago.

More Pictures From Our Trips South In 2002 And 2004

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Above is the Biloxi Mississippi Lighthouse. Rachel took that picture. Note the prisoners doing landscape work around the lighthouse.

Rachel in the railroad museum in Meridian, Miss.

Seagulls over the beach in Biloxi.

I can't remember what I was throwing up to the seagulls. But whatever it was they really liked it.

Rachel Stewart took the three photographs of the seagulls seen above.

Rachel at Alabama Point in Gulf Shores Orange Beach Alabama.

Rachel in Ocean Springs Mississippi In May Of 2002 And Two Pictures Of The Swimming Pool At The New White House Hotel In Biloxi, Ms.

The picture at the top is Rachel back in 2002 in Ocean Springs outside Realizations which is a Walter Anderson Gift Shop in the old L&N Railroad station.
Below that are two pictures of the swimming pool at the new White House Hotel in Biloxi.
At night the lights in the pool also turn green and red as well as blue.

See below how it looked one year before Hurricane Katrina when the hotel was closed and badly needed restoration and repair. Miracles never cease. The White House Hotel is now open and looks brand new which it really is. It looks just like it did back in the good old days.

Hull Hall Bulldogs With Sunglasses At Mississippi State University

Rachel Stewart took these two photos of the bulldogs with sunglasses in 2002. They sit above the entrances to Hull Hall(a dorm)at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi

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Picture Of Rachel Stewart At Realizations In Ocean Springs Mississippi 2002

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Realizations is a gift shop in the old L&N Railroad Station Depot in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
It is a gift shop for items by the artist Walter Anderson and is run by his family.

http://walterandersonart.com/

I took this picture of Rachel outside the gift shop in May 2002. I really like those sculptures. The big one is still there. Just a little rusty from age and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Nice Photo Of Rachel Stewart In New Orleans 1965 And Some Pictures Of Our Kittens

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One of our cats from the French Market on the back deck of our apartment. Top floor 627 Ursulines Ave. New Orleans.

All three kittens from the French market. 1965

Rachel And Ray Stewart At A Playoff Game At National's Park A Few Years Ago...October 11th, 2012 Washington Versus St. Louis

Rachel Lefebure Stewart pretty in pink. October 11, 2012.
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I must have taken this picture.