Washington, DC Aug 13 - 20, 2007

Spent the night in the van in Ohio somewhere.  Gorgeous morning.  Visited my 5dmd's house in Romney, WV.  Col. George Wilson, (1729-1777) died after marching his troops to Trenton, NJ to reinforce General Washington. 

Here I am with Alexander Sevastian (far right) who ended up winning the 2008 CIA Coupe Mondiale World Accordion Championship.

Heather Masefield of New Zealand.  The last time we met was in St Louis in 1977 or so.  It's fun to see the same faces after all these years.

Jeff and Pam Lisenby.  Jeff was a US champion in 1977 and played in the Coupe Mondiale in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Iona Reed Pukara, Coupe Mondiale winner, Prague, 1962.

Dr Herbert Scheibenreif of Austria.

Daniel Andersson of Sweden.  He studies with Max Bonnay in Paris.

Jeroen Nijhof of England.  He's a fiber optic whiz and maintains Accordionlinks.com. 

This is Werner Weibert from Austria. He sat on the jury when I played in the 1979 CIA Coupe Mondiale in Cannes, France.

Stas Venglevski is from Moldova and lives in Wisconsin now.

Frederic Deschamps, 1992 Coupe Mondiale winner (Trossingen, Germany).

Liz Finch works in the film industry in California.

Lou Coppolla.

Ulrich Schmuelling of Intermusik.  Harley Jones of Fiji.
 

Jorgen Sundqvist of Sweden.