lester brown's family life
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In his inspirational new memoir, Breaking New Ground, Lester Brown traces life from a small farm to leadership as a global environmental analyst. Here is a selection of photos from his family life.TRANSCRIPT
FAMILY LIFE
photos of Lester R. Brown
Great Grandparents George and Martha Harvey Cain
Grandpop and Grandmom Brown
Calvin Brown (Lester’s father) inside car. Nicholas Brown (grandfather) standing outside
Dehlia Smith and Calvin Brown (mother and father), circa 1933
Calvin Brown
Lester, five years old
Lester and his younger brother Carl
The Brown Family:l to r: Carl, Mom, Lester, Pop, Marion
Lester’s father with his mules.
Stow Creek Elementary School graduates
Carl tending the pheasants
Planting tomatoes
The Brown Brothers’ truck
Lester loading a tractor trailer with 600 baskets of tomatoes, 1958
More tomatoes
A teenaged Lester at home
Lester and his tractor for the tomato growing operation
In his new Chevy
The family farm, current day
Lester, wife Shirley, and son Brian, 1960
Lester and Brian
The Brown family: Brian, Lester, Brenda, and Shirley
Family time
Lester and Brenda, 1983
Brian’s college graduation day, 1982
Graduation day for Brenda from veterinary school, 1994
Lester and Brian, 1985
Lester and granddaughter Bridget, 1994
Atop one of the Rocky mountains during a hiking trip with Brian in 1989.
Sister Marion razzing Lester while Carl awaits his turn at Lester’s sixtieth birthday celebration at the Cosmos Club,
Washington, DC, 1994
Brenda and Brian with Lester at sixtieth birthday
Elke and Uwe Gessner, long-lost cousins from the former East Germany, at Lester’s sixtieth birthday celebration
Uwe, Christine (daughter) and Elke Gessner
Maureen Kuwano Hinkle, Lester, Marion Spence, Carl & Mary Brown, and Bob Spence, 2004
Lester with his extended Brown family, 2009, taken at reception following the Smithsonian Museum of American History event, A Conversation with Lester Brown. L to r: Darlene Rosenberger, niece; brother-in-law Bob Spence, sister Marion Spence; Brian; Alison Dance; granddaughter Bridget; grandniece Olivia Rosenberger; Maureen Kuwano Hinkle; granddaughter Lena; sister-in-law Mary Lou Brown; brother Carl; Brenda; and grandson Cash (front). Photo by Hugh Talman.
Lester, Alison Dance, and Brian. Aspen, CO, 2010
Hiking with Brian in Alaska’s Denali National Forest, 2011
The Haun Family:Lena, Chris, Brenda, Bridget, and Cash, 2011
Blondeen & John Gravely, Maureen Kuwano Hinkle & Lester, Bob and Marion Spence. University of Maryland, Hall of Fame Induction reception, 2011
Fiftieth Reunion, Rutgers Class of 1955. Photo by Maureen Kuwano Hinkle
Bridgeton High School 60th Reunion. Photo by Maureen Kuwano Hinkle
Bridgeton High School, 2011(photo by Maureen Kuwano Hinkle)
Lena, Brenda, Bob, Bridget, Cash, Lester, Marion, Brian, and Shirley. Aspen, CO, 2011 (photo by Maureen Kuwano Hinkle)
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