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The Benson Family's
Front Yard!
Home of Juliana, & Ben,
and Sophie, Rosa, Lilli, & Mira
Wir steh'n uff Berlin!
Online since 1997

Cover Picture 
Our 2006 Holiday Card.
Click for the original photo.

Greetings! 

Welcome to our web pages and the many pictures, etc. here! The photo archives and Sophie and Rosa's Artsonia pages (linked below) is where we most recently have been adding stuff.

Please e-mail us about any problems you run into, broken links or such.
  • Photo Archives, a.k.a. Bilderbuch
Find your favorite pictures and sounds from our Front Yard here. The more recent sets are stored at www.kodakgallery.com. You don't have to sign in to view them. Just look for the link "View Photos without signing in: Photos will not be saved to your account." You may need to click the sign in link at the top right to get this option.
(Updated: October 2005)
  • Verinen im Allgäu - Vacation in Bavaria, July 2006. Photos from our vacation in the Bavaian Allgäu with Nanna.
  • Ben in the Bayou, October 2005, Some pictures and thoughts from my deployment to serve as Information Officer for the Mobile Unified Command - Environmental Branch in the clean up after Hurricane Katrina. (Almost all of these pictures were taken with my phone camera. Thus the quality.) Benjamin Benson
  • Albacore Submarine, October 2005 - Visiting the Albacore submarine museum with Omi-Erika and Opi-Art (plus some pictures from an earlier visit) in Portsmouth NH.
  • Fourth Cliff Vacation, July 2005 - Pictures from our family vacation at Fourth Cliff, near Plymouth, MA, July 2005.
  • Bilder Archiv 9 - Erinnerungen an Mutti - Elisabeth "Lissy" Pienitz - 4 April 1907... 19 Februar 2005.
  • Bilder Archiv 8 - July - November 2004, Boston & Lexington.
  • Bilder Archiv 7 - May - July 2004, our drive from San Diego to Boston.
  • Bilder Archiv 6 - May 2003 through April 2004, welcome Lilli and Mira.
  • Bilder Archiv 5 - February 2002 through May 2003
  • Bilder Archiv 4 - Summer 2001 in France through January 2002 in Tucson (These photos are temporarily unavailable. I'll fix this.)
  • Bilder Archiv 3 - Sophie's 5th Birthday, March 2001 through a Sea World visit in June 2001
  • Bilder Archiv 2 - Shabbat 2000 through visiting Julian with Nana, Heidi, in January 2001
  • Bilder Archiv 1 - Photos from the 20th century
Pictures posted through their school. You can buy one on a mug!
Sophie's 'blog' of our corner to corner trip from San Diego to Boston. (New: May 2004)
The Incident Command System's Effect on Public Relations Excellence. A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of San Diego State University, Spring 2004. (New: April 2004)
  • Stan & Edla Benson's Memorial Page (mirror site)

    • Ben's Grandparent's Memorial featuring a slide show I think you'll enjoy very much.  I've added the photos for the second slide show , but need your input as to the dates and details.  If you visit, please add your comments to our guest book .  (The pages are in free spaces, so please excuse the occasional banner ads.)
    (Updated: January 2002)
     
  • Rosa's Gallery (mirror site)

    • Beautiful full color reproductions of the artist's original works, both visual and audio.
    (New: January 2002)
  • Sophie's Old Gallery

    • Beautiful full color reproductions of the artist's original works, both visual and audio.
    (Updated: July 2001)
       
  • Benny Music

    • Recordings Ben made over the years are still here in Real Audio. I also added "My Daring and Heroic Rescue" at Benny Music for your enjoyment.
    (Updated: July 2001)
     
  • Ben's Comments on The Perfect Storm

    • What do we have to do with Sebastian Junger's book, The Perfect Storm?  Read about Ben's previous life as a Rescue Swimmer here.  I added a note on the film and some links to much more information on this event.  I recently added the unit award re received for these rescues and by popular demand the "My Daring and Heroic Rescue" recording.
    (Updated: July 2001)
     
  • The VonSin Official As It Gets Web Page

    • VonSin ONLINE! 
    (Updated: October 2000)
     
  • Judaica

    • Here's some Jewish stuff I couldn't track down over the Internet, so I made it myself.  I recently added our notes on Rosa's naming.
    (Updated: September 2000)
     
  • The Benson's International Bulletin Board

    • News! Comments!  Read what others posted and add your own comments!  This is where we post our latest news.  (It's so quick and easy.)  The board is also open to all our friends, family, Sophie fans, VonSin fans,... Please add your comments!

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