A Note About the Author: Nancy Ackerman
Nancy Ackerman resides in Las Vegas after 35 years of living in Spain, Mexico, Jeddah, Jakarta, Singagore and Dhahran. She is the author of two books and another is being written in between training for and competing in ballroom dance competitions around the USA, and shopping for antiques for her annual charity fair from her second home in London.
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Bringing it All Home - The Las Vegas Residence of Donna and Byron Peterson
When Donna and Byron built their dream home in Las Vegas, they knew exactly what they wanted. Their first Las Vegas home was professionally decorated, and while beautiful, revealed nothing about its owners, which led them to begin again, this time using all the wonderful things they had acquired during their years of living in Dhahran.
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Christmas Here, Christmas There, at Kay and Wayne's it's Everywhere!
The Christmas spirit soars in the Sarasota, Florida home of retired
administrator, Aramco Schools Dhahran (1981-1897), Wayne Siebold, and former
Dhahran tap dance studio owner and 5-6-7-8! headliner, Kay Siebold.
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Bringing it All Home - Interior Decoration from Around the World
Once upon a time, in 1974, a young Tom and Patsy Inglet never suspected that, as they headed for Dhahran, they would experience the ‘Dream Job’
with Aramco.
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Bringing it All Home - Interior Decoration from Around the World
This is the second in a series of articles by Nancy Ackerman describing some of the very best home design using the treasures acquired while with Aramco…see what Ann and Richard Barr have done!
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Bringing it All Home - Interior Decoration from Around the World
All of us as ex-Aramcons have Arab exotica in our homes, items picked up in Khobar, Bahrain, Sharjah, and Oman, and added to that are the many souvenirs from other cool destinations visited on repats, DOG trips and long weekends.
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Carmen Cashman, A Lady of Many Talents, Then and Now
There is a beautiful statue on display in Carmen Cashman’s Las Vegas home,
inscribed, "Some people dream of
worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them."
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A New Desert Destination, Retirement in Las Vegas
Easing into the landing pattern, seat belts firmly buckled for the usual turbulence as
you tip over the surrounding mountain ranges into the flat basin that contains
Las Vegas, you begin to marvel at the contrasts…the gorgeous sapphire blue
waters of Lake Mead, the series of mountain ranges (five of them) that circle
the city, and the straggly edges of sandy desert that seep out from the city as
it expands at a terrifying speed.
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Bites of London - Portobello Road Market
Saturday in London means a visit to Portobello Road. Trinkets, treasures and
trash, along with food, fashion, flower stalls and adventurous eating…await visitors to London’s famed street market, a must for every visitor to London.
Author: Nancy Ackerman
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The Joy of Ballroom Dancing
Something very unexpected and powerful took over the night I witnessed my first live ballroom dance competition. It was the Nevada Star Ball, In Las Vegas, in 2001.
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Stars of 5678! Then and Now....Continued
Norma was an original dancer with 5678 in 1985. Although she and husband Tim left Aramco at one point, they returned to Dhahran again and she performed in our final production in 1992.
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Stars of 5678! Then and Now....Continued
When Liz Ross wrote in reply to my plea for some data on her life ‘then and now’ her answer came back…”Okay, Nancy, here I am in front of my computer, talking from the top of my head.
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Stars of 5678! Then and Now....Continued
Dawn is a ‘personality’, a ‘presence’ and you have no doubt when meeting her that she has star quality.
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Stars of 5678! Then and Now....Continued
I’m not the only one who still calls Jill “Bahama Mama”… tribute to when she lit up the stage during that Latin number of the same name.
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London's Sights and Bites
A book on eating well in and around London’s major attractions(and how it came to be written.)
Author: Nancy Ackerman
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Stars of 5678! Then and Now....Continued
Patsy Inglet didn’t dance in the original production of 5-6-7-8!, but she was an important part of it nevertheless.
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Stars of 5678! Then and Now
The huge cast of 5-6-7-8! was a treasure of talent…upstage, downstage and backstage.
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5678! Productions, Still Dancin'
Originally sponsored by the AEA, and later finding a home with DTG, a slim lineup of 10 dancers, 8 gals and 2 guys, started what was to take a sweep of Arammys for every show presented.