Key	Imgs	Short Description
2002_DC_Block_020409	68	AFL-CIO Headquarters -- Tom Block's art show reception My neighbor, Tom Block, is a painter. He had an exhibition at the AFL-CIO headquarters near the White House that I went to and took some pictures from. In these pre-digital days, the photos were a crap shoot and they didn't turn out that well. Tom immediately, however, said that he was really glad I was...
2008_DC_FOTHOC_081225	41	Friends of the Homeless on Christmas (distribution) Delivering the packages and meeting afterward at Meiwah. The official write-up of the event, written by Debbie: We had a great event preparing and distributing bags to homeless people in Washington DC. Below is some of the information about the event, and some of the vignettes that we hope convey...
2004_MD_FOTHOC_041224	46	Friends of the Homeless on Christmas (package preparation) The official write-up of the event written by Victor Block with a preface by Tom Block: Hi, everybody, here's the recap of this year's FOTHOC event that my Dad wrote up. I might add a couple of things: 1) This was by far my worst year in terms of passing things out; people didn't want the bags;...
2005_MD_FOTHOC_051224	55	Friends of the Homeless on Christmas (package preparation) The official write-up of the event, written by Victor Block: FOTHOC Celebrates its 10th Year A four-year-old girl hands out pictures she has drawn to homeless people on the streets of Washington. Told that the gift bag being handed to him contains a Walkman-type radio, a man without a home asks...
2008_MD_FOTHOC_081224	94	Friends of the Homeless on Christmas (package preparation) The morning started off *very* well as USA Today had published an article that mentioned the event and they printed in four columns a photo that I had done last year during the event.
2010_MD_FOTHOC_101231	56	Friends of the Homeless on Christmas (package preparation)
2007_DC_FOTHOC_070101	35	Friends of the Homeless on New Years (distribution) Delivering the packages and meeting afterward at Meiwah. The official write-up of the event, written by Victor Block: FOTH Annual Report – 2006/7 To all supporters of, participants at and others interested (mildly or more) in the Friends of the Homeless project: Recent changes were made to...
2008_DC_FOTHOC_080101	30	Friends of the Homeless on New Years (distribution) Delivering the packages and meeting afterward at Meiwah. The official write-up of the event, written by Victor Block: FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS – 12/07-1/08 REPORT Great pack, tough delivery. That was the evaluation of the 12th annual Friends of the Homeless operation, the brainchild of Tom...
2010_DC_FOTHOC_100101	52	Friends of the Homeless on New Years (distribution) The second part of Victor Block's report follows. January 1, 2010. Because of overwhelming interest in helping out, five cars, rather than the four of past years, left FOTH Central a little after 10 a.m. on a cold New Years day, each carrying 20 gift bags. After distributing all of their bags,...
2011_DC_FOTHOC_110101	76	Friends of the Homeless on New Years (distribution) Victor's report: The December 31, 2010-January 1, 2011 Friends of the Homeless activity marked the 15th consecutive year that this project provided large gift bags filled with items -- some basic, some fun -- to men and women on the streets of Washington. It followed a year-long effort by Tom Block...
2006_MD_FOTHOC_061231	81	Friends of the Homeless on New Years (package preparation) Preparing the gift packages.
2007_MD_FOTHOC_071231	80	Friends of the Homeless on New Years (package preparation) Preparing the gift packages.
2009_MD_FOTHOC_091231	75	Friends of the Homeless on New Years (package preparation) The first part of Victor Block's report follows. Note: According to the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, at least 17,800 men, women and children are homeless in the Nation's Capital over the course of a year.   ...
2007_MD_Block_070209	34	Gateway's Heliport Gallery -- Tom Block's art reception
2007_MD_Block_070720	42	Gateway's Heliport Gallery -- Tom Block's "Cousins" vote There was a community involvement event held at the Gateway's Heliport Gallery in Silver Spring for Tom Block's Cousins public art project for the Kennett Street Art Wall Community Involvement Event On June 21st, Tom Block's "Cousins" public art project was selected as the winner for the Kennett St....
2004_MD_Block_040507	27	MD -- Laurel -- Montpelier Cultural Arts Center -- Tom Block art reception This was an opening reception for my neighbor Tom Block's artworks at the Montpelier Cultural Arts Center. According to the brochure, the painting "are inspired by the spiritual passion of 14th Century mystic, Meister Eckhart. Working on raw, pitted, found wood as a support, the artist views the ensuing...
2014_MD_Gail_141225	16	Neighbors -- Christmas dinner @ Gail Hendrickson's
2002_MD_Neighbors	2	Neighbors -- Debbie Spielberg and Carlene Roberts
2007_MD_Gail_070217	58	Neighbors -- Gail Hendrickson's birthday party
2005_MD_Gail	25	Neighbors -- Gail Hendrickson and Eno the cat Three visits: ...
2016_MD_Gail	4	Neighbors -- Gail Hendrickson moving Gail and Joel are moving off to Florida at the end of the month and their house is now up for sale. Sigh. I'll miss them!
2007_MD_Gail	9	Neighbors -- Gail Hendrickson, Joel, Brittany, and Eno the cat Includes birds attacking Eno and a fruit basket from work after knee surgery.
2016_MD_Kristine	5	Neighbors -- Kristine and the kids
2021_MD_Kristine	4	Neighbors -- Kristine and the kids
1999_MD_Superbowl_990131	72	Neighbors -- Neighborhood Superbowl Party
2019_MD_Roberts	3	Neighbors -- Roberts family for Christmas
2018_MD_Roberts	6	Neighbors -- Roberts family for Thanksgiving dinner
2003_MD_Neighbors	7	Neighbors -- Snow shovelers
2004_MD_Block_Main	14	Neighbors -- Tom Block's family Tom and Debbie Block, plus 4-year-old Dahlia and 10-day old Naomi.
2009_DC_Block_090414	7	Neighbors -- Tom Block @ Ultrecht's Tom Block was on public display at the downtown Utrecht store, working on preparatory drawings for his next large installation painting ("Manifesto")
2008_MD_Block_080426	53	Space88 -- Tom Block's "Cousins" reception w/singer Kristin Callahan Space88 is proud to present this examination of Tom Block's ongoing public art project, Cousins. Permanently installed just a few blocks away at the entrance to the Kennett Street Parking Garage (along the Eastern Ave. access), Block has also installed Cousins in bus shelters in Tempe, AZ (2005-2006)...

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