This photo is from Sarah and Matt's wedding in August 2015.  Kara and Weston were not able to attend.

A "trailer" video Josiah did for Dan & Kara's wedding.  The full video is here.  Many of the videos he has done commercially are at the same site.

Sarah and Matt have an engagement webpage and a trailer and full video of their wedding done by Josiah and Julia.

Updated December 2023

Our annual Christmas photo pages and letters...
Vacations with a little adventure thrown in.

Yellowstone 1995 - photo essay of Hayden Valley filled with buffalo and our favorite swimming holes.

Grand Gulch, Utah, 1997 - exploring a canyon filled with ancient Anasazi cliff dwellings.

Molas Pass, CO, 1997 - hiking through wild flowers at 12,000 near the Continental Divide.

Family photos from May 2001. (sorry about the pop-up ads)

Southwest USA, 2001 - Lots of canyon hikes.

Wyoming and Oregon, 2003 - Mountains and sandboarding.

Southwest USA, 2005 - Rockies, canyons, Vegas - just the guys.

Family photos from 2013 - assorted vacations and our Germany trip.

Colorado-Utah bike trip 2014 - a typical Holwick vacation, including disaster.

Canoeing the  Allagash Wilderness 2019 - David and Celeste go on a classic Maine adventure and survive to tell about it.

(see below for more albums on Facebook)

The Holwick family

David and Celeste met in 1978 while he was in Gordon-Conwell Seminary in Massachusetts.  They lived in an attic apartment in Ipswich, then a trailer in Pepperell, and then served their first church in West Lafayette, Ohio, in 1982. We moved to Ledgewood, New Jersey, in 1989. Our house was right next to the church and was infamous for the tall skateboard ramps in the backyard (quietly destroyed after he left for college). We homeschooled all our children before sending them to Roxbury High School.  All of them moved to Denver and have since scattered across the country - Lake Tahoe NV, Lakewood CO, Albany NY, and Amesbury MA.  Dan and Kara made us grandparents in July 2015 with little William Weston, followed by their daughter Kinsley, and Matt and Sarah's sons Hunter and Wyatt.  Rebecca is in the process of adopting two foster children, Tyree and Diana.  We retired to a beautiful home that looks out on the Cross River in Boothbay, Maine, in July 2018.  It is a good thing we retired when we did because the pricing of housing here has almost doubled since then.

Celeste is a registered nurse and works very part-time at a rehabilitation center here.  Everyone remarks how full of energy she is but often don't realize she was diagnosed with stage III uterine and ovarian cancer in 2005 and had surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, followed by further intestinal surgery in 2018.  She has been cancer-free ever since, though the treatments do leave their reminders.

Our passions in life include kayaking on the Cross River, hiking and backpacking, camping in National Parks, and bike riding. David is an avid amateur astronomer and has observed over 400 asteroids and 600 galaxies with his 10" Dobsonian telescope.  He is also a stained-glass hobbyist and creates reproduction Tiffany lamps for family and friends.
Holwick Genealogy
Did you know there are less than 250 Holwicks in the world?  Our family name only dates to the early 1800s (before then our name was Holben).  During the COVID lockdown I made it my project to identify every Holwick alive today and to link them to the family tree.  I think I have come pretty close.

Here is a summary of the history of our clan and some of the conclusions I have drawn from studying us.

It is followed by a collection of photos of Holwick families around the county as well as some historical photos from my own kin.

I have also put together a children's version for my grandchildren called "How the Holwicks Came To America."

 I think I have information on just about every Holwick who has ever lived, as well as the ones alive today.  If you are a Holwick I would like to hear from you.  I have a great deal of information I don't want to put on the internet but I do want it to be preserved.  My contact information is at the end of the History page on the left.
Facebook photo albums

Viewable to anyone in our "friend" circle on Facebook 

1955-1982 David growing up  (updated 2012)
1980 Wedding of David and Celeste (more photos added 2012)
1982-1989 David at First Baptist, West Lafayette, Ohio
1989-2012 David at First Baptist, Ledgewood, New Jersey
2009 random photos
2011 Hurricane Irene in Ledgewood
 2012 Holwick's Southwest Vacation

 

 More Facebook albums

The Holwick family down through the years
Josiah Holwick pictures
Celeste (Triehy) Holwick pictures

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