First posted on Sept 2, 2011, but only recently brought to our attention:
CRATER LAKE – Tom McDonough always introduces himself while giving interpretative programs at Crater Lake National Park.
Over the years, many visitors named McDonough have asked him if they were related.
So when a person listening to his program wondered aloud if they were related, Tom McDonough initially shrugged it off. But when the questioner named Tom McDonough’s mother, father and other relatives, an impromptu meeting was held after the program.
After 50 years, Tom McDonough and his cousin Ed, a retired San Francisco policeman, were reunited.
Ed, 70, who lives in Novato, Calif., and works as a private investigator, said he had lost contact with family members who had moved from San Francisco to Oregon. During a park visit four years ago, he and his wife, Michele, decided to stay overnight and got a room at the Crater Lake Lodge.
Other pages in this section
- 2017-Jan 20 trail management planning survey
- 2017-1-31 Trail Management meetings
- 2017-2-10 Park Reports Massive Theft of Ammo
- 2017 – 2-14 Medford Mail Tribune, 4/18/1930 Army Birdmen Over Lake for Photos
- 2017-April Fools
- 2017 – April 2 – Crater Lake Growing Pains
- 2017 – April 3 Invasive Vegetation Management Plan
- 2017 – April 4 Park Press Release about Water Shortage
- 2017 – May 6, Tank Trucks Begin Hauling Water to Crater Lake
- 2017 – May 18 Water deliveries begin at Crater Lake
- 2017 – May 20 Rare Subspecies of Red Fox in Oregon
- 2017 – May 5 Seventeen Years to Success – from the Sierra Club History Vault
- 2017 – May 5 Climate Connections – Teacher Development Workshop
- 2017 – May 21 Man Survives Fall into Crater Lake
- 2017 – May 26 Ashland helicopter heroes behind Crater Lake rescue
- 2017 – May 26 – Why is there a Water Shortage?
- 2017 – June 5 – Crater Lake NP and Triglav NP in Solvenia
- 2017 – June 3 – 02 Mount Steel reply
- 2017 – June 23 – North Entrance Road opens Friday
- 2017 – July – 01 Crater Lake water system back online and other highway news
- 2017 – July – 02 Rim Fall Fatality Identified
- 2017 – July – 10, 1988 D Cracker dies
- 2017 – July – Fire dangers and more news
- 2017 – August 2 – Crater Lake Wildfire at 2425 acres
- 2017 – August – 04 Fires Burning – PCR Closed in Crater Lake NP
- 2017 – August – 03 – Twin Fires Raging Near Crater Lake
- 2017 – August – 05 – Wildfire Closed West Rim Drive
- 2017 – August – 05 Wildfires Close Trails, Issues Evacuation Warning
- 2017 – August – 05 – Park Says Be Ready to Evacuate Rim and HQ
- 2017 – August – 11 West Rim Drive Reopens
- 2017 – October- 07 Great great grandson of Superintendent Arant
- 2017 – Oct 13 Applegate Peak: What a difference one mile makes
- 2017 – November 15 Crater Lake Lodge Pine Posts – Real or Not?
- 2018 – November 19 Annual Snowfall has been declining for decades
- 2017 – November 24 – Republished from 1917 news from the park
- 2017 – December 15, Snowshoe walks
- 2017 – 12-29 Congress should fund Crater Lake maintenance
