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Friends and Relations When I grow up, I want to be able to sing and play the piano as well as my Aunt Peggy's dog Buck. Click on the links below. Be sure to turn up your audio (...I dare you not to laugh). Buck singing Happy Birthday Buck playing the piano and singing My sidekicks from my aerobics and Pilates class, Blondie (left) and our instructor, Chris (right), who is "affectionately" called The Goddess of Torture. Blondie and the Goddess are trying out their new tap shoes. They managed to strong-arm me into taking adult beginner tap dancing with them. Click on the link below. Be sure to turn up your audio. Blondie and the Goddess of Torture (a.k.a., PsychoMama) in action I am blessed with a mother, Phyllis Dayton, who always keeps active. As I write this, she is just a few months away from her 80th birthday. For years she has taken aerobics three days each week. About two years ago, she decided that she wanted to learn how to play the piano, and so she is now taking piano lessons. Pretty neat! My father, Bill Dayton, was a man who was much admired by those who knew him. He was an entrepreneur and very successful. He was the co-owner (with my mother, Phyllis Dayton ) of Dayton's Tour Hosts until his untimely death from cancer at the age of 68, on September 12, 1997. He was the founder of the Bill Dayton Big Band. He also chaired the committee to re-build the dance pavillion at Pen Mar Park (near the former Fort Ritchie at the Maryland/Pennsylvania border), which many people enjoy each year. To speak of all his accomplishments would take an entire web site. Don Richwine was my sister's father-in-law. He was a good and gentle man. He was not physically tall, but he was a giant when it came to being a good husband, father, and friend. He was also one of the finest professional saxophone and clarinet players that I have known, and I've known plenty. And...just for fun, below is my family tree. It is better to be noble by deed than to be noble by birth. Charlemagne -- King Charles the Great Louis the Pious Judith Baldwin III Arnulf the Young Baldwin IV Matilda of Flanders in France Matilda of Flanders in France married William of Normandy -- a.k.a. William the Conqueror King Henry I of England married Matilda of Scotland King Henry II of England King Henry III of England Prince Edmund Henry Plantagenet - a.k.a. Henry Fitz-Empress Eleanor Plantagenet John FitzAlan John FitzAlan Lady Eleanor FitzAlan Sir George Browne Simon Browne Thomas Browne Francis Brown Francis Brown Eleazer Brown Elizabeth Brown married Michael Todd Elizabeth Todd (royal descent) married Isaac Dayton II on December 29, 1708 Michael Dayton born June 4, 1722 - 1/2 royal blood David Dayton Sr David Dayton Jr Orrin Dayton Henry Dayton Heber "Doc" Dayton married Signe Rudolfine Linde Sorensen William Eugene "Bill" Dayton married Phyllis LaVaughn Belleisle Craig William Dayton and sister, Sandra Lorraine Dayton