BGuthrie Photos: Friends of the Homeless on New Years (package preparation)

Friends of the Homeless on New Years (package preparation):

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Description of Pictures: Preparing the gift packages.

Same Event: Wait! There's more! Because I took too many pictures, photos from this event were divided among the following pages: [Display ALL photos on one page]:

2008_DC_FOTHOC_080101: Friends of the Homeless on New Years (distribution) (30 photos from 2008)
2007_MD_FOTHOC_071231: Friends of the Homeless on New Years (package preparation) (80 photos from 2007)

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Description of Subject Matter: Friends of the Homeless on Christmas is an event that my neighbor Tom Block and his family organizes each year to deliver food and goodies to the homeless on Christmas. The goodies include an interesting assortment of things that, in most cases, were suggested by the homeless themselves. So they might include fleece blankets, thermal underwear, hats, gloves, radios (with batteries), playing cards, etc. The bags are filled on Christmas Eve day and then distributed on Christmas day. The intention is to reach the homeless who refuse to go to shelters -- the hard-core -- since these are the people who are most in need of assistance. It's a touching experience.
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Directly Related Pages: Other pages with content (Friends of the Homeless on Christmas) directly related to this one: [Display ALL photos on one page]:
- 2011_DC_FOTHOC_110101: Friends of the Homeless on New Years (distribution) (76 photos from 2011)
- 2010_MD_FOTHOC_101231: Friends of the Homeless on Christmas (package preparation) (56 photos from 2010)
- 2010_DC_FOTHOC_100101: Friends of the Homeless on New Years (distribution) (52 photos from 2010)
- 2009_MD_FOTHOC_091231: Friends of the Homeless on New Years (package preparation) (75 photos from 2009)
- 2008_MD_FOTHOC_081224: Friends of the Homeless on Christmas (package preparation) (94 photos from 2008)
- 2008_DC_FOTHOC_081225: Friends of the Homeless on Christmas (distribution) (41 photos from 2008)
- 2007_DC_FOTHOC_070101: Friends of the Homeless on New Years (distribution) (35 photos from 2007)
- 2006_MD_FOTHOC_061231: Friends of the Homeless on New Years (package preparation) (81 photos from 2006)
- 2005_MD_FOTHOC_051224: Friends of the Homeless on Christmas (package preparation) (55 photos from 2005)
- 2004_MD_FOTHOC_041224: Friends of the Homeless on Christmas (package preparation) (46 photos from 2004)
Generally-Related Pages: Other pages with content (Neighbors -- ) somewhat related to this one: [Display ALL photos on one page]:
- 2004_MD_Block_040507: MD -- Laurel -- Montpelier Cultural Arts Center -- Tom Block art reception (27 photos from 2004)
- 2008_MD_Block_080426: Space88 -- Tom Block's "Cousins" reception w/singer Kristin Callahan (53 photos from 2008)
- 2009_DC_Block_090414: Neighbors -- Tom Block @ Ultrecht's (7 photos from 2009)
- 2004_MD_Block_Main: Neighbors -- Tom Block's family (14 photos from 2004)
- 2003_MD_Neighbors: Neighbors -- Snow shovelers (7 photos from 2003)
- 2018_MD_Roberts: Neighbors -- Roberts family for Thanksgiving dinner (6 photos from 2018)
- 2019_MD_Roberts: Neighbors -- Roberts family for Christmas (3 photos from 2019)
- 1999_MD_Superbowl_990131: Neighbors -- Neighborhood Superbowl Party (72 photos from 1999)
- 2021_MD_Kristine: Neighbors -- Kristine and the kids (4 photos from 2021)
- 2016_MD_Kristine: Neighbors -- Kristine and the kids (5 photos from 2016)
- ...More (List all 19 pages)...
Same Subject: Click on this link to see coverage of items having the same subject: [Artists] [Display ALL Artists photos] [Events (Not Found Elsewhere)] [Friends] [Winter] [Issue Homelessness] [Display ALL Issue Homelessness photos]
Featured Folk: Some of the people here can also be seen on other pages on this site.
- Block, Tom appears on:
  - 2010_MD_FOTHOC_101231 Friends of the Homeless on Christmas (package preparation)
  - 2010_MD_AI_Folks MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Folks
  - 2010_MD_AI_Stage_100423 MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Opening session @ Ellsworth Plaza
  - 2009_MD_SS_ParadeAI_091121 MD -- Silver Spring -- Thanksgiving Day Parade (2009) -- Amnesty International float
  - 2009_DC_HamiltonianAT_090421 DC -- Hamiltonian Gallery -- Artist Talk
  - 2009_DC_Block_090414 Neighbors -- Tom Block @ Ultrecht's
  - 2009_DC_Hamiltonian_090321 DC -- Hamiltonian Gallery -- Exhibition opening
  - 2008_DC_FOTHOC_081225 Friends of the Homeless on Christmas (distribution)
  - 2008_MD_FOTHOC_081224 Friends of the Homeless on Christmas (package preparation)
  - 2008_MD_Block_080426 Space88 -- Tom Block's "Cousins" reception w/singer Kristin Callahan
  - ...More (List all 20 pages with this person)...
2007 photos: Equipment this year: I used the Fuji S9000 almost exclusively except for the period when it broke and I had to send it back for repairs. In August, I bought a Canon Rebel Xti, my first digital SLR (vs regular digital) which I tried as well but I wasn't that excited by it. Trips this year: Two weeks down south (including Graceland, Shiloh, VIcksburg, and New Orleans), a week at a time share in Costa Rica over my 50th birthday, a week off for a family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with sidetrips to Dayton, Springfield, and Madison), a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con with a side trip to Michigan for two family reunions, a drive up to Niagara Falls, a couple of weekend jaunts including the Civil War Preservation Trust Grand Review in Vicksburg, and a December journey to three state capitols (Richmond, Raleigh, and Columbia). I saw sites in 18 states and 3 other countries this year -- the first year I'd been to more than two other countries since we lived in Venezuela when I was a little toddler. Ego strokes: A photo that I took at the National Archives was used as the author photo on the book jacket for David A. Nichols' "A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution." I became a volunteer photographer at both Sixth and I Historic Synagogue and the Civil War Preservation Trust (later renamed "Civil War Trust").. Number of photos taken this year: 225,000.
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