{"id":22,"date":"2022-01-21T18:06:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T18:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2023-04-02T15:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:04:48","slug":"family-history-of-my-childhood-and-immediate-family","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/","title":{"rendered":"Family history of my childhood and immediate family"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>This is a site about my parents, Peter and Marcy Hartman, and my brother Jay, and me. Especially when I was a kid.<\/p>\r\n<p>For now, it\u2019s specifically for posting a set of letters that my family wrote to Peter\u2019s parents from 1968 through 1996.<\/p>\r\n<p>(For letters that Marcy wrote to her parents before I was born, see my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/\">site about Marcy<\/a>.)<\/p>\r\n<p>I digitized and annotated and posted about three letters a week here throughout 2022 and early 2023.<\/p>\r\n<p>If you want a better sense of where all the referred-to places are and how much we moved around, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/1\/edit?mid=1Fwf9EShKOqG4lsg3-r5PgJG2AeHXBi_v&usp=sharing\">map of places we lived<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>Below are three options for ways to navigate through the letters.<\/p>\r\n<h2>1. View a list of all letters in order, with a description of each<\/h2>\r\n<p>To view a list of all the letters, starting with the first one in 1968, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/posts\/\">Posts<\/a> page. You can then choose which letters to look at.<\/p>\r\n<p>Each page of posts lists ten letters, with descriptions; to view a list of the next ten letters, use the <b>Next<\/b> button at the bottom of the page.<\/p>\r\n<h2>2. View lists of letters from each period of our life<\/h2>\r\n<p>I\u2019ve divided up the letters roughly into several periods. Here are the periods so far:<\/p>\r\n<dl>\r\n  <dt>1968: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/category\/periods\/harbinger\/\">Harbinger<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>A commune at Harbin Hot Springs.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>1969\u20131970: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/category\/periods\/post-harbinger\/\">Post-Harbinger<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>A somewhat aimless period during which we lived in Modesto, Oakland, Richmond, and El Cerrito.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>1970\u20131972: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/category\/periods\/uc-berkeley\/\">UC Berkeley<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Peter finished his undergrad degree at Berkeley, majoring in math-for-teachers.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>1972\u20131973: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/category\/periods\/awareness-house\/\">Awareness House<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Peter worked as a drug-abuse counselor at the Rising Sun Awareness House in Tracy.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>1973\u20131975: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/category\/periods\/hearthlight\/\">Hearthlight<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Peter and Marcy started a foster home for (as they put it) \u201cmentally and emotionally disturbed teenagers.\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>1975\u20131978: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/category\/periods\/cotati\/\">Cotati<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>After Peter and Marcy ended the foster home, we moved to nearby Cotati, where P&M worked at a bookstore for a while, and Marcy spent a little time in grad school, and Peter learned more about computers and got his first computer job.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>1978-1988: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/category\/periods\/palo-alto\/\">Palo Alto<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>In 1978, Peter got a job doing computer stuff for Oroweat, which required him to live in the Palo Alto area, so we moved there.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>1988-1996: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/category\/periods\/post-palo-alto\/\">Post-Palo Alto<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>I left for college in 1986; Jay left for college in 1988; there are only a few letters after that point, so I put those in a separate post-Palo-Alto category.<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n<h3>3. Read through all the letters in order<\/h3>\r\n<p>If you want to start at the beginning and read through all of the letters, without descriptions, you can go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1968\/06\/03\/1968-june-3-letter-from-marcy-to-gh\/\">first letter<\/a>, read through it, and then click the <b>Next Post<\/b> link at the end of the letter. 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