August 12, 1972. Michael Ney Machette and Nancy Geraldine Hart were married in the Portola Valley Presbyterian Church. After a reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Hart, the newlywed couple spent their wedding night at the Stanford Arms Hotel in San Francisco in route to a honeymoon at Lake Tahoe, California. On August 22, Michael and Nancy packed their VW bus (Minerva) with all their worldly goods and departed for Denver, Colorado, where Michael will attend graduate school in Geology at the University of Colorado and Nancy will start her career in merchandising (Denver Dry Goods).On August 17, 2009 they will have been in Port Townsend for exactly one year (oh yeah).
