Mar 4, 2011

Notes from the Bailin Clan - Regular Visitors

I've just spent a lot of time inviting many of our previous visitors to renew acquaintances. I still have MANY names to go through and a great many of you changed addresses over the years. HOWEVER, if you got my note - WELCOME BACK to the Mountaindale Virtual Reunion Party! Please spread the word that we are back.

2006
Barney & Lee Davidoff had a daughter Ella, who I thought was the most beautiful brunette I've ever seen. She favored her mother. Barney Davidoff, a renowned violist would team with my uncle Dave Bailin on the piano. Morris Slutsky & my (Great) uncle Sam Frishman on the mandolins would entertain us on many a Saturday evening, while my uncle Morris Bailin was filming all the entertainment with his 8 mm movie camera, & if I'm not mistaken once every so often he showed 16 mm films in the casino. My aunt Sady, I loved. I can still hear her shouting, "of all the nieces & nephews, I like Melvin the best." Maybe it was my cooking - she loved my sweet & sour chicken.

My uncle Sam E Bailin was the Chief of the Heckowwee Tribe. He always found the time to make you a peace pipe out of a corn cob, or a boat out of Birch bark & tell you stories of the Heckowwees & how their nation was founded. Whenever his wife, my other aunt Ceil, got into a hot & heated discussion, she would always end the conversation, by saying, "Rose Bailin said to me, you may not be a genius, but with your looks, who cares."

My aunt Mary was the family doctor/ psychologist /barber. Whether you were a friend, or family, when you got hurt, or needed a haircut, or advice, my aunt Mary was always there for you. My Bubbie lived with Mary, Harry, my cousins Arlene & Marty. My Bubbie was like E F Hutton, 'when she talked you listened.' My uncle Harry has the patience of a saint. I've always had & still have a great deal of respect for him. And George, . . . George Bailin is still # 1

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