It was a fall afternoon in the Delaware Valley of Eastern Pennsylvania when three cousins met for a few hours. Those three cousins, shown in the picture above, had not seen each other for decades. The place was a condo at Shawnee-on-Delaware near East Stroudsburg. Left to right are Sidney Lanier (Texas), Margaret Ann Hurlbrink (Pennsylvania), and Henry Ruppenthal (West Virginia). The occasion was on the afternoon of November 5, 2008.