Dear Dennis,

You will always be an essential part of our history. You are a vital part of this land, your mother earth, the soil of these mountains around the Bay of Biscay. Your ancestral part of the Paleolithic in the Pyrenees that you loved so much. Thanks to you and Pegi - together with Bruce, the three - you have given to the Basques of today the deepest look of our past. You have placed us in the narrative of history, you have illuminated the shadows.

Eskerrik aunitz bihotzez.

Dennis Stanford at Jauregizarrea. JAUZARREA-ATLANTIAR congress 2015. Photo @ Xabi Otero.

On April 24, 2019, our beloved friend Dennis Stanford has gone into the Universe. Pegi has been at his side at all times, at Georgetown University Hospital, close to his residence on Capitol Hill, in Washington. With her his friends and colleagues of the Smithsonian. We transmit our love and support from Jauzarrea.

JAUZARREA

Dennis J. Stanford and Margaret Jodry, Pegi. Photo © Pegi Jodry.

 

Dennis. Photo by Stuart Harris.

 

Dennis. Photo © Pegi Jodry.

 

Dennis.

 

Three friends at the Basque Folk Festival by the Smithsonian, in Washington, 2016. Robert Grenier, Xabi Otero and Dennis Stanford. Photo by Pegi Jodry.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2018 KNEKK TEPAW. Left to right, in the front row (on floor) Maria Pala, Ron Williamson, Bruce Bradley and Joëlle Darricau. Middle: William W. Fitzhugh, Cahente Horn-Miller, Stephanie Inglis, Pegi Jodry, Dennis Stanford, Stephen Augustine, Xarles Videgain, Robert Grenier, Stephen Oppenheimer, Peter Bakker and Theo Vennemann. Back row: Brad Loewen, Douglas Cardinal, Idoia Arana-Beobide, Xabi Otero, Lionel Sims and John Koch. Photo © Mirari Loyarte.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2018 KNEKK TEPAW. Left to right: Pegi' sister, Pegi Jodry, Luis Sarasola, Ondartxo Arbilla, Beatriz Etxeberria and Dennis Stanford. Photo © Mirari Loyarte.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2018 KNEKK TEPAW. Wagmatcook Mi'kmaq First Nation. Penal court. Left to right: Dennis Stanford, Theo Vennemann, Angelika Lutz and Arlette Sinquin. Photo © Mirari Loyarte.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2018 KNEKK TEPAW. Wagmatcook Mi'kmaq First Nation. Penal court. Left to right: Pegi Jodry, Angelika Lutz, Arlette Sinquin, Theo Vennemann and Dennis Stanford. Photo © Mirari Loyarte.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2015. Left to right: Ron Williamson, Stephen Oppenheimer, Bruce Bradley, Dennis Stanford, Laurier Turgeon and Robert Grenier. Photo © Iñaki Gorostidi.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2015. Left to right: John Koch, Brad Loewen, Lionel Sims, Bruce Bradley and Dennis Stanford. Photo © Iñaki Gorostidi.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2015. Left to right: Bruce Bradley, Freda Yang, Pegi and Dennis. Photo © Iñaki Gorostidi.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2015. Left to right: Beatriz Etxeberria, Dennis Stanford and Peter Bakker. Photo © Iñaki Gorostidi.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2012. Jean Clottes, Pegi Jodry, Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley. Photo © Arlette Sinquin.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2012. After a break during the ATLANTIAR congress, Dennis, Augustine and Pegi see the txalaparta, with Amaia Corral, Itziar Jauregi and Lara Mitxelena, before return to the Auditorium. Photo © Freda Yeang.

 

Opening of the ATLANTIAR congress 2012, in Ficoba. Photo © Ane Miren Axpe. Ficoba.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2012. Speakers and companions in a visit to the tree of Gernika. Photo © Ondartxo Arbilla.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2012. Visit to Ekain Berri. Andoni Iturrioz, behind Theo vennemann and Xabier Peñalver. On the right Dennis Stanford and Pegi Jodry. Photo © Freda Yeang.
 

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2012. Visit to Larraldea, in Amotz, Senpere (Lapurdi). The Basque Cultural Centre created by Andoni Iturrioz and Marie Christine Iturrioz. Dennis, Bruce and Pegi. Photo © Freda Yeang.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2012. One of our work supper. Left: Beatriz Etxeberria, Pegi, Bruce Bradley, Theo Vennemann and Stephen Oppenheimer. To the right: Raimundo Lizardi, Miren Egaña Goya, Dennis Stanford and Stephen Augustine. Photo © Freda Yeang.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2012. Presentation of the Congress to the media in the Palace of the Provincial Government of Gipuzkoa, Donostia. Left to right: Stephen Oppenheimer, Stephen Augustine, Theo Vennemann, Xabi Otero, Peter Bakker, Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley. Photo © Freda Yeang.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2012. Dennis, Pegi and Stephen Augustine, in the Julio Urkijo Library at the Palace of the Provincial Government of Gipuzkoa. Photo © Arlette Sinquin.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2012. Pegi and Dennis at the Palace of the Provincial Government of Gipuzkoa. Photo © Ondartxo Arbilla.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2012. Reception iat the Palace of the Provincial Government of Gipuzkoa by Deputy General Martin Garikano and Deputy of Culture Ikerne Badiola. Photo © Freda Yeang.

 

ATLANTIAR congress 2012. Visit to the Isturitz and Otsozelaia caves, in Donamartiri Arberua. Lower Navarre.
Stephen Oppenheimer, Bruce Bradley, Dennis Stanford, Margaret Jodry, Stephen Augustine, Joëlle Darricau (Owner of the cultural site of Isturitz). Behind: Xabi Otero, Raimundo Lizardi, Peio Urtasun. On the right Aude Labarge and Theo Vennemann. Photo © Arlette Sinquin.

 

Some pictures of Dennis Stanford and Pegi Jodry with Jauzarrea.