Family

Alex is 24, has gradutated from the University of Michigan's Architecture School, was on the rowing team. See photos of him and the team, and photos of him on a recent trip to Argentina. He has, as a young man might have done in times past, gone west: he's moved to Seattle. We miss him terribly.

• Alan is now working at JSTOR. Taking time for another trip to Argentina in February and March of 2008.
• Alan is putting together, with the help of others in the Pagliere clan, a family tree.
• Alan and his pedal steel have joined up with Brian Delaney and his guiar to form a band playing unpeggable music. Others in the band, Howard White and Hugh Huntley. Stay tuned for performances.
• Alan spent a couple of years fighting the arrogance of unregulated power on a local level with the wrong-headed and dangerous plan the Ann Arbor Public School system is pushing on Ann Arbor. See http://www.proposedhighschool.org. Also read the story about the parody web site he put up in early 2006, which was forced to be taken down (in this land of free speech). The corruption of the AAPS, the apathy of the community and the slime enountered at the City Council and the Mayor's Office have pretty much burned him out on any hope in local politics.
• Alan and Esther went to Argentina in February and March of 2006. Great trip.
• Alan, Esther and Alex had a great trip to Argentina in December 2004 and January, 2005. See photos.
• In the summer of 2004, Alan took glass-blowing lessons at Baron Glassworks. See his stuff.
• Alan went solo to visit his Argentine relatives in February and March, 2001. See photos.
• The main band that Alan is in has continued to play the Ann Arbor Summer Festival's Top of the Park concert series, and has continued its never-ending series of "Last Performance Ever" events. Check The Cadillac Cowboys Page.
• Alan has put on hiatus his beekeeping hobby/almost-business after 5 years of beekeeping. He may get back into it someday. Check out Tree Town Bees, for some information on the project.
• To see more about others in the Pagliere clan, go to http://www.pagliere.net. Especially follow the link to the Ito Project.
• It's been a quite a while already since Alex and Alan went to Japan in June of 1997. Alan was able to meet up with many of the people who were so kind to him 20 years ago when he lived there. Wonderful people they are. Alex and Alan traveled from Tokyo, to the Kurobe area in the "Alps", to Toyama, where lives Adachihara Touru-sensei, the kindest and one of the most interesting men Alan has ever met. (More to come here). Then on to Kyoto, Alan's "Nihon-no furosato" where he lived in 1981 and 1982. Many changes in that city, but still wonderful and with the greatest ra-men shop in the world ( for the address if you ever plan on a trip to Kyoto). Day trips from there included Nara and Hiroshima on the Shinkansen.

Back to Alan's Page.