Ted and Irene Lehmann

We are a middle-aged couple who have raised our kids, finished our careers, and, for the past four years, lived much of our life in a fifth wheel trailer in different parts of the US.  We enjoy travel, sports, reading, boating, watching television, and living our life together.

Irene grew up in Clark's Summit, Pennsylvania and went to West Chester State College (now West Chester University) where she majored in health and physical education, graduating in 1963.  She taught for two years at The George School, a co-educational Quaker boarding school in Bucks County, PA, where she coached and taught.  After our marriage in 1964, Irene gave up teaching for home-making, mothering, substitute teaching, retail clerking, and high quality wifing for a high maintenance husband.  Along the way, we had two sons who grew up, went to college, became professionals, and set out to raise families of their own.  Irene became a good tennis player, knitted dozens of sweaters, made quilts, and put up with Ted.  Recently she has taken up a new sport, golf, which she finds to be frustrating, but which she claims to enjoy.  She knits for the four grandchildren we have, solves NY Times crossword puzzles using a pen, a keeps us both on a pretty even keel.  Together we ride bikes, kayak, and do a little fishing. 

Ted grew up in suburban Philadelphia where he attended Westtown Friends School and began college at Dickinson.  He was graduated from West Chester State College and earned masters and doctoral degrees at Temple University.  He taught English in public high schools in Pennsylvania and New York and taught teachers and English at the college level in New York, Texas, and Pennsylvania.  In search of career advancement, Ted moved himself and his family from Pennsylvania to New York to Texas to New York to Upstate New York and back to Pennsylvania, never staying more than three years in any one place.  After an abortive experience as English Department chair in a large high school in central Pennsylvania and several years as an adjunct professor in one of Pennsylvania's state colleges, Ted returned to the high school classroom for three years and retired.  Since then, he and Irene have lived on the road and experienced life in America through the lens of their experience.  Ted enjoys reading, writing, golf, computers, genealogy, television, and family life. 

This web site follows our life, mostly through Ted's eyes and words.  But the life is a shared one that brings daily surprises for each of us.  We welcome your responses to what you read here.  Contact us at tlehmann@earthlink.net.

                    Irene in Vermont - 2003                                                                         Ted in Myrtle Beach - Fall 2002