This is a picture of a reunion of the Matthias Mort reunion, held on July 27, 1980 in Three Springs, PA. I don't remember many of them, but Lucille Carberry of Baltimore, MD is the person in the front bending over the person in the chair and I am standing directly behind Lucille in the blue and white top.
Family reunions are the time to reunite with family members you haven't seen in a long while, and to meet distant cousins you might have never known existed.
Sometimes, because of busy lives, adoptions, or the nomadic nature of people, families are separated - for a year, or a decade, or more. Or fights among siblings or generations divide a family. And so...