Kevin & Kara married on 6/2/2013 |
Colleen & Dave married on 5/24/2014  |
Patrick & Sarah Married on 9/15/2018 |
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| Kevin & Kara married on 6/2/2013 |
Colleen & Dave married on 5/24/2014 |
Patrick & Sarah Married on 9/15/2018 |
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Our little town of Black Mountain. NC , 15, miles east of Asheville, is advertised as the Front Porch of Western North Carolina. Well, this view below is taken from OUR front porch.
in the FALL
and in the winter
We started building (actually
rebuilding) the log cabin that we found west of Asheville, then a year
later built the main part of the house.
Barbara may retire from Mission Hospital in June of 2022. I entered the busy world of retirement in May 2011 after 7 years of teaching High School math in Tampa,FL, 15 years teaching
Math and Computer Science at Montreat College in Montreat, NC and 26 years in the Computer Science Dept at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, NC During the summers we love to travel around the US in our small RV and to use BnBs touring Europe. Trips to see our children's families in NJ, VA and Asheville,NC is also a top priority
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 Colleen Age 5 |
 Colleen in Montana 2011 |
 Colleen and Dave Gordon |
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Colleen is our busy bee having had a variety of experiences beginning with globe trotting backpacking trips, counseling at-risk kids in the Utah Wilderness, working the ski slopes of Vail, raft guiding on the upper Colorado River, supervisor of Cal Adventures of U of California, Berkeley and recruiter for a biofuels company while working on a Masters degree in Holistic Health Education at JFK U, outdoor coordinator activities for the CAL Medical School of San Francisco, met Dave, her future husband and went on 5 month backpacking trip through Europe. Recreational supervisor for all of East Bay Regional Parks, married Dave and moved to Asheville, NC to run a BnB while recruiting for a biotech company online. Dave finished his Masters degree in Sustainable Studies and is currently a Manager of for the Greenbuilt Alliance. Ember was born in 2020 and is a whirlwind of activity |
 Happy Campers |
 Ember Age 2 |
 A ledge in Switzerland |
| Kevin. Can't you just see it in his eyes at 5 years old, that he was
thinking
about being a star on Broadway!
Well, he he did make it,,,four times. The first was part of the cast in the Tony awarded musical, Big
River. The second time he performed as Tarzan in the Disney Broadway musical Tarzan
in 2006. He was called a year later to perform many more times as
Tarzan in the
Hamburg, Germany production where the dialog and songs were in GERMAN.
The third time he went on as the lead, Huey, many times in the 2010
Tony Awarded Best musical, Memphis. Currently he is the ensemble in the 2014 Tony Awarded Best Musical, Gentlman's Guide to Love and Murder . He was Almanzo in musical version of Little House on the Prairie with Melissa Gilbert as Ma and a year tour of the US in this production followed. Kara, his now wife, was his opposite Luara. Other regional productions: Willard in Footloose in Kansas City -Ted in Bonnie and Clyde in Sarasota, FL -D'Artagnan in "The Three Musketeers" in Chicago. -Kinky Po in the Mikado in Fargo, ND. -Fred in A Christmas Carol in Boston. I-n the musical version of Macbeth with the Memphis Opera in TN -"Doody" in two European Tours of "Grease" -Dickon in "The Secret Garden" and Charlie in Brigadoon with the Utah Opera Festival in Logan, Utah. -Pippin in Pippin in the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, Utah. -Marius in Les Miserables in Milwaukee Along with his performances he has formed and led several Musical Theater Workshops in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and NYC |
 Kevin Age 5 |
 Kevin as Almanzo in Little House on Prairie 2010
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Kevin along with his brother,Patrick and a Memphis friend formed trio called the Manhatten Moonshine Band and have song gigs arround Manhatten.
His full resume, blog and other pictures can be found on his Web page http://www.kevinmassey.com. Kevin did very well academically and musically at UNC Chapel Hill.
He won both the state and South East regional competitions in Musical
Theater
and Men's Classical levels. He was the musical director of
the UNC
Clef Hangers Men's a Capella group for his last two years. One spring break they had a great tour
singing
through the London and Wales area. Another year they went to Switzerland
for
a week. The last two years they had both a Fall and Spring
concert
which sold out the largest concert hall on campus (2500 people) in two
days. Here is Kevin on his Clef
Hanger Fall Break Trip to Atlanta by the way of NC. I don't know
whether
Kevin lost his paddle or lost his MIND!!Immediately
after graduating from UNC Chapel Hill in 2001 he made Queens, NY his
home. Currently he is living in Jackson
Heights on Long Island, NY with his wife Kara, who is appearning on the
Braodway stage for the second time as the good witch Glinda in Wicked. Her first Broadway role was in 2013-14 as the female lead in "Newsies". Kevin and Kara in Little House on the Prairie, MN 2008 Utah Shakespearean Festival Fall 2005 Our trip to see Kevin in Germany March 2002 |
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| Patrick: How
quickly they grow, and grow and grow! Patrick is
now a
6' 2" graduate of the Boston Conservatory with a Masters degree in
Vocal Performance where was the lead tenor in many of their operas. A
list of those can be found in his resume.
He is finished his first professional acting tour of
the Southeast with Chamber Theater Productions out of Boston. He graduated from UNC
Chapel Hill in 2008 with a double
major in Vocal Performance and Religious Studies. In
his undergraduate time at UNC he was the lead tenor in the musical "Into the Woods",
Rev. Salvation
in "The Cradle Will Rock"
and Chanticleer in "Chanticleer" , "Cosi
Fan Tutti" and "Parade" .. The men's a Capella
group the "Achordants" was also a major part of his college life.In the summer of 2007 he was in Falmouth, Cape Cod singing
in 8 productions with the College Light Opera
Company Summer 2007 having the tenor
lead in 4 of them. He was Charley Dylrimple in Brigadoon In Lancaster, PA March to May, 2013 In the summer of 2014 he was Marius in Les Miserables
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 Patrick
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 Patrick 2011 |
 Patrick as Marius in 2014 |
| the summer of 2005 (and again in 2006)
found
him in Chicago in the unexpected role of being responsible for running
the largest inner city Little League
in the US.
. The summer of 2008 was with Dad on a bike trip through Germany and Austria. . Other pictures and facts can be found in his Web site. http://www.patrickmassey.com . He is now living in Brooklyn, NY just a subway ride away from Kevin. He sang the part of |
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