THE UMANS FAMILY HOME PAGE

The Umans family includes Denise, a Speech and Language Pathologist, Steve, an electrical engineer and Dalya and Ari. We also have a Siamese cat named Snickers.

Here are some pictures pictures from our summer 2009 camping trip to Mt. Desert Island in Maine.

The family at our campsite.

A view from our Mt. Desert Campground campsite.

Working on a crossword puzzle with our friend David.

A visitor to our campite.

A hike on a carriage road.

A bald eagle as photographed from our canoe.

Here are some pictures pictures from our summer 2005 trip to South Africa.

Hippos tend to like to sleep.

We are being observed by a giraffe.

Giraffes are big!.

Elephants are bigger!.

Zebras have the right of way.

This monkey knew how to pose.

We visited a township near Capetown.

A few additional photos.

Ari and Steve fishing on Onaping Lake in Ontario in 2009.

A picture of the the Trio "NO DOGS ALLOWED. From left to right: Steve, Shu Satoh (who regularly substitutes for bassoonist Tom Stephenson) and Ray Jackendoff. Our trio has been regularly performing since it was formed by Ray, Tom and Steve in 1966.

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Cousin Avi Hoffman is well known for his performances in the Yiddish theatre and elsewhere. If you get a chance to see one of his performances, don't miss it!

Cousin Nancy Hoffman wears many hats and is multi-talented. She is a composer, singer and conductor and a founder member of the Klezmer Group Casco Bay Tummlers . She lives on Peaks Island in Maine where she is also the curator and director of the world's only Umbrella Cover Museum.

Stanley Hoffman is another extremely talented cousin. He is a composer, singer and conductor.

Sharona Hoffman is a Professor of Law and Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University.

Last updated February, 2007