Benjamin Andres Trimble
Memoirs

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1941  Birth in Russellville, Kentucky
    ^My Ancestry (In process)

1943  Family moves to Atlanta, Georgia
     *My Life in West End Atlanta

1952 Family moves to Decatur, Georgia
     *Druid Hills and Decatur High Schools (in process)
     *My Life with the Violin

1959 I move to Berkeley, California
     *Rostropovich Comes to Berkeley
     *My Car Accident
     *Brett Weston Visit

     *Two Memorable Music Department Performance Classes

1960 I move to West Lafayette, Indiana
      *Chamber Music at Purdue (in progress)
      *Graduate Study at Purdue University (in process)
      *My Marriage to Joanne
     *My Interest in Birds
    
*A Trip Around rhe US
     *Isle Royale Backpacking Trip

1965 I move to
Manhattan, New York City
     *My Early Teaching Years (In process)
     *Living on the Lower Eastside Manhattan in the 60s
    *An Incredible Christmas Bird Count

     *Jury Duty in Manhattan

1968
I move to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
     *My Graduate Study at The
University of Pennsylvania (In proress)

1972
I take a position at Glassboro State College, Glassboro, New Jersey
     *My Glassboro Teaching Years
     *My Trip to the Galapagos (in process)
     *Mont Blanc Ascent

     * Climbing Hasan Dagi in Turkey
     *Marvin Creamer

1982 I take a position at RCA Government Systems Division
     *I Become a Pilot


1983 I take a position at IBM (Kingston, New York)
     *My Flights to the Bahamas
    
*A Flight to Newfoundland Canada and St. Pierre France

1991 I move to Austin, Texas with IBM
    *Wildlife at my Austin Texas Home
    *Two Flights to Belize and Guatemala
     *A Flight to Alaska

2000 Retirement
     *A Trip to Mainland China (in process)
     *My Life with Penny