 Our kind of town:
Chicago renames a street
to honor Franklin Parmelee as Continental
Airport Express, successor to Parmelee Transfer,
celebrated its 150th anniversary. - Reunion:
Long
Beach, Calif., aboard the Queen
Mary in 2000.
- Gone with
the wind: The 1913 Omaha Easter
Sunday tornado. ...
the 1878 Wallingford, Conn., tornado.
 Catching
a comet: NASA
ordered its comet-hunting Stardust probe
to shut down the spacecraft after a
12-year career. Relatives had their names encoded
in microchips that were placed aboard the
spacecraft, which encountered a comet in
2004 and brought back samples to Earth in
January, 2006.- Photo album
mystery: We think we've
got photos
of Robert Parmley and some of his 24
kids!
 Cloudscapes:
Former flight attendant Abbie Parmele,
left, has created a series of
cloudscapes which were displayed at
an Indiana bank and another series of hay bales, which
is on view in Rensselaer, N.Y.- Author!
Author! A chance meeting
leads to Mary Alice Parmley's first book.
 Our man in
Havana: Michael
Eleazur Parmly served as the top
U.S. diplomat to Cuba during the second Bush
administration.  - Got a
match? This
promotional matchbook cover comes from an
old family
shop in Sea Bright, N.J. Does anyone
know anything about it?
- A
brush with teaching: UC Davis art major Alex
Palmerlee teaches in the ArtsBridge program.
- The
old homestead: Camp
Atterbury was once an Indiana family
home.
- University
donors: William Douglas and Luann Parmelee have created
two funds for faculty excellence at the University
of North Carolina in their wills.
 The suffragette:
Annette, left, was
known as the "Suffragette
Hornet" as she sweet-talked and
bullied the Vermont Legislature to
support women's
right to vote. - Court
case: Allan
Wesley Parmelee, the Washington arsonist
who's called "The
Inmate Who Won't Shut Up."
- 'Farm
in the Dell': Hikes
through the Horace and Eunice Maria
(Parmelee) Parmelee Farm in Killingworth,
Conn.
 School days: Charlotte
(Cooper) Parmley, who worked in the bursar's office at State
University of New York, Genesco, recalls
growing up in the Great Depression and
attending a one-room schoolhouse.- The family
silver: Among the family items that have
recently surfaced are the baptism
bowl of Deacon
Nathaniel (1771/72 - 1717/18) and son
Ezra's (1714-1800) children, and
a pair of candlesticks Ezra gave to
daughter Jemima when she married Josiah
Griswold in 1774.
 Home, sweet home:
Recognize this old
homestead in Virginia? Why was it called the Parmelee House?
- Tug race: The captain of the Parmelee, which plied the waters off
Charlevoix, Mich., for years, learns that
a head start doesn't guarantee victory.
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 Cream of
the crop: The days of the
milkman may be over, but Barbara and
George R. Parmelee are part of a
Bethlehem, Conn., dairy
institution that began in 1922. - Barn-raising:
Joel and Trish Parmelee of Randolph
Center, Vt., rebuild
after a fire.
- Lacrosse: Carson Parmelee is the man behind the
mask at the University of Arizona.
 Old
barn: An
1886 barn
outside Guilford, Conn., that's been in
the family for generations will get a
face-lift thanks to a grant.- Flying
high: James
Madison University student Dan Parmelee
is on his way to earning a commercial pilot's
license.
 Family
on a budget: What
happens when parenting years overlap with
retirement? Charles
and Jan Parmalee
of Albany, N.Y., are finding out.- Escaping
the tsunami: The James Aaron Parmelee
family of Bangkok, Thailand, was visiting
the United States when 2004 disaster
hit.
- Home tour: Ron
and Sherri Parmely open their house
in Wyoming.
- Rock hound:
Horatio "Harvey" Plum
Parmelee collected rocks
from all over the world.
- Sister
act: This
1857 group portrait, "The Parmly
Sisters," hangs in a gallery in
Washington, D.C. They're the daughters of
dentist Eleazer Parmly.
- Snakes
alive!: Jeff Parmele of
Simpson College is on a mission to save the timber
rattlesnakes in Iowa.
- Teacher
honored: Pulitzer
Prize-winning author David McCullough
pays tribute to Elizabeth
Mallory Parmelee
in a commencement address at Wheaton
College shortly before her death.
 Tae kwon
do champ: James
Parmelee of
Hernando (Fla.) High School, has
qualified for National AAU Tae Kwon Do
Championships and the Junior Olympics.
- An MS
story: Donna Karan manager Marlo
Donato Parmelee
is glamorous, smart ... and suffering
from multiple sclerosis. When Marlo, 37,
of London, failed to find a narrative
that conveyed what she was going through,
she decided to write it herself. The
result is "Awkward Bitch: My Life
With MS" (AuthorHouse).
- A novel
idea: Author Stephen Lewis takes the
1895 Michigan murder case of Julia
Curtis, a servant girl buried in a
shallow grave. Levi
Woodruff Parmelee was convicted, then pardoned of
the killing.
 What's cookin'?: Pat
Parmele, a former caterer and food
service director, cooks Monday dinner for
son Gerik, photo editor at the
Columbia Daily Tribune, and his
family. She's taken to blogging many of
her recipes at Dancing
in the Kitchen. - Parmele-Dohrmann: You
still can find their items at online
auction sites. But a century ago, the
best in tabletop finery was sold at this housewares
store in
Los Angeles.
 WWI dog
tags: Kenneth Parmelee of
Santa Fe, N.M., doesn't know how his
father's World
War I dog tags ended up at a woman's
Texas home, but he is glad to have the
items back. The tags were found while Jim
Woods was cleaning out the Big Spring,
Texas, estate of his maiden aunt. And the
connection was made through our website!
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