The Photography of Kurt F Fink (kfink.portfolio.com)

While we wait for the offical wedding photographer photographs to be processed, her are a few more shots of the wedding activities. The Wedding Party Ryan, Bryan, Dawn, Brandon, Morgan, Deanna January 29, 2011  Relaxing before the wedding with a game of pool and a stiff drink......Bryan Elkon (Best Man) taking on the groom while Jeff has a scotch with me.     Morgan Wolfram     All flower arrangements were hand-made by the mother of the bride Pat Atkisson.      The father of the bride Alfred Atkisson, who unfortunately pasted away from caner last month. But we knew he and Brandon's grandfather Charles Fink were there in spirit.   View from the cabin deck of the Great Smokey Mountains  

Hello Family and Friends, A fantastic 64 degree sunny day with blue skies in January in the Smokey Mountains.  A lovely weekend as our son Brandon weds a beautiful woman named Dawn .  A weekend of many blessings and much love. Kurt and Karen Fink The wedding party of Jeff, Ryan, Bryan(a.k.a. The Best Man), Dawn (a.k.a. The Bride), Brandon (a.k.a. The Groom), Morgan (a.k.a. The Daughter), Deanna, and Cloette. The mother of the Bride, Pat with Dawn and Brandon  The Fink family Karen, Brandon (a.k.a. The Groom), Ryan, and the Father (Me)   Morgan and her mother the Bride  The first dance as wife and husband....  The Groom and his Father (a.k.a. Me)  The sister and Matron of Honor, of the Bride (Deanna) and the Maid of Honor (Morgan, the daughter of the bride)  The location, the Great Smokey Mountains, Gatlinburg, Tennesse  The Best Man finds it hard to believe that the bride said YES.......

I would like to thank David Walker of Media Magic for the shout out that  the ship was in port and unloading.  Thanks Dave :)

The Maumee docks in Ashtabula, OH next to the draw bridge to off load rock to a local dealer. This certainly draws alot of attention.  This photo was snapped from the Ashtabula river draw bridge. History of the Maumee Launched June 22, 1929 as the William G. Clyde for the Pittsburgh Steamship Company (a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Steel Corp.), this Great Lakes bulk carrier was built as hull # 804 by American Ship Building Co., Lorain, OH. The Clyde entered service August 15, 1929 when she departed on her maiden voyage light from Lorain, OH to Duluth, MN to load iron ore. Due to the nation's prosperous economy at the time, the William G. Clyde was one of three vessels built for the Pittsburgh Steamship fleet in 1929. The other two vessels were the Horace Johnson also built by the American Ship Building Co., Lorain as hull # 805, scrapped in 1984; and the Calumet (Myron C. Taylor, 1929 - 2001) built as hull # 269 by Great Lakes Engineering Works, River Rouge, MI, sold...

By 1763 the British had about a million and a half colonists on the North American continent. William Johnson, British superintendent of Indian affairs for the northern colonies, said that there were about 50,000 Indians with 10,000 warriors, though scholars consider his estimate low. General Amherst commanded about 8,000 soldiers, but only about 2,000 of them were in the western forts. On April 27, 1763, an Ottawa chief named Pontiac held a meeting with a number of Indian leaders from different tribes near Ft. Detroit. He urged the chiefs to wage war against the British. According to a French chronicler, he said, “It is important for us, my brothers, that we exterminate from our lands this nation [Great Britain] which seeks only to destroy us. You see as well as I that we can no longer supply our needs, as we have done from our brothers, the French….Therefore, my brothers, we must all swear their destruction and wait no longer. Nothing prevents us; they are few in numbers, and w...