Wightmans & Trulocks 45 years ago

Until recently, I thought this photo was taken by my maternal grandmother, Elner King Miller. But I found an envelope a few months ago with two other photos from this day in it, and with a note my grandmother wrote to my mother on the outside, saying that the photos were taken by our Uncle Rusty, as we called him (our grandmother's brother-in-law).  He'd sent copies of the photos for us to have. I don't know if he stamped the date on the photos himself and it's the actual date of the photo, or if the developer put the date of development on it, like they used to do. Usually it was just month and year, though.

Unfortunately, the two other photos from this day are taken in direct overhead sunlight which causes faces to look like masks. Not something I want to reproduce! This one isn't so great either (not focused) but is a record of the Wightmans visit to Pine Bluff.  They are the three girls in the photo, and the youngest boy. The other four boys are my brothers and me, except that Jeff (oldest bro) is not pictured.

The occasion for the visit was the 50th wedding anniversary of Bernie and Jewel (King) Hargis, of Warren, AR. They were married on June 16, 1920.  Jewel, Elner and Francis King were sisters. Elner's husband was Arch L. Miller (died in 1965). Francis was married to George R. "Rusty" Clarke, and they were the Wightman kids' maternal grandparents. So this photo might have been taken more than a week earlier than June 28, if the anniversary celebration was  close to the wedding date.  I also have some Super 8 home movie footage my dad took of the celebration in Warren.  He sort of scanned the crowd off and on for three or four minutes.

Columbia, South Carolina, July 1, 2000

Early 80s Barton St. Little Rock

Winfield Cemetery 10 May 2003

Winfield Cemetery is at the Winfield-Miller's Cove exit off of I-30 in East Texas. I would sometimes stop there to walk around and stretch my legs during the drive between Austin and Little Rock or Pine Bluff.

Reflections at 5th & Main

Photo by Rita Henry. Taken in February 2015 outside the Hotel Pines at the intersection of Main Street and Fifth Avenue in Pine Bluff.

Here's looking at you, Jessie

At Pine Bluff''s Graceland cemetery

There are 67 graves of young children in Babyland, dating from 1956 thru 1985.  Most of the children were only a few days old when they died. Some were as old as two years. 

Inez was born at the time Albert Einstein finished his first relativity paper, which, coincidentally, since we are looking at markers where bodies are buried, has the word "bodies" in its title: "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies."   June 28 was possibly even the very day Einstein finished the paper and mailed it to the Annalen der Physik.  It was received there on June 30.  The title of Einstein's second relativity paper, published in the fall of 1905, in which the relation E equals m times c squared was first derived, also has "bodies" in the title:  "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on Its Energy Content?" In the case of the bodies in the cemetery, the inertia reaches a maximum (it would take a lot of energy to move the interred body), while the energy (mass) continues to decline, for instance through radioactive decay of Carbon-14 atoms.