Reunion 2013 - Slide Show 2

Good food. Good conversation. Good fellowship.

The Country Music Highway Museum.

Enjoying a good Music Pickin' at the Country Music Highway Museum.

Enjoying more good music and line dancing at the Country Music Highway Museum.

Gathering in the memorabilia room at the hotel. Many banners representing the different family lines descending from Friedrich Carl Christlieb can be seen in the background.

Tables were loaded with memorabilia.

Good conversation and good fellowship are key ingredients of our Christlieb-Chrislip-Crislip Family gatherings.

Another memorabilia table.

Our 2013 reunion was held at the Ramada Inn, Paintsville, Kentucky.

Ned Crislip presented the pre-American history of Friedrich Carl and Anna Catharina Christlieb.

Listening to Ned's presentation.

Small pickin' groups were seen all around the museum.

Another small conversation in the memorabilia room.

Are we having fun yet?

Members are studying the memorabilia, including a copy of the Association-sponsored "Ancestors and Desecndants of Friedrich Carl and Anna Catharina Christlieb."

Are we in this book? Yes, you probably are!

Ned Crislip, far right, our President and storyteller.

"Ancestors and Descendants of Friedrich Carl and Anna Catharina Christlieb."

More family line banners and memorabilia.

Display showing some of Friedrich Carl's God-Sponsors.

The Frankenstein Crest was a gift to the Family Association by the town fathers of Frankenstein. Simon aus Frankenstein hailed from this village, prior to his baptism-conversion and becoming Friedrich Carl Christlieb.

A banner showing the Christlieb-Chrislip-Crislip Family Crest, designed and created by descendant Jacklyn Crislip Acheson, Battle Creek, Michigan, in the early 1980s.

Three sweethearts of C-C-C.

Many conversations continued after each presentation during the reunion.

Many conversations continued after each presentation during the reunion.

Many conversations continued after each presentation during the reunion.

Three C-C-C "cousins."

Some of our group went to find headstones of family relatives in the Caldwell Cemetery, Sitka, Kentucky.

Here, a headstone is just barely visible above ground in the Caldwell Cemetery, Sitka, Kentucky.

Who might this ancestor be?

The hunt continues for ancestors' headstones in the Caldwell Cemetery, Sitka, Kentucky.

Some headstones were disintegrating in the Caldwell Cemetery.

Extra issues of Jacob's Ladder are made available for those who don't have a complete set.

Our oldest and youngest attendees, Gerald Crislip and Malachi DeJohn.

Sisters Elaine Crislip Eakin and Pat Crislip Roberts shared dulcimer music Saturday morning.

A water pitcher once owned by Eleanor Jane Board.

Saturday evening banquet.

Saturday evening banquet.

Saturday evening banquet.

Saturday evening banquet.

Louise Fiest addresses the banquet attendees.

President Bill Bland presented certifictes to present and past members.

President Bill Bland presented certifictes to present and past officers.

Lee Wise presented a slide show of a past trip to Germany to visit our Ancestors' hometown of Bad Dürkheim.

Edna Grimm and family, our Kentucky hosts.

The installation of new officers who will serve a two-year term.

Ned begins a talk on Our Heritage, Part 1.

Karl Friedrich zu Leiningen, one of Friedrich Carl Christlieb's God-sponsors.