Family vacation photo August 1966

Fifty years ago we made one last vacation trip to Pensacola Beach as a family, this time without meeting the Murphree family there as we had in the past.  Stopped at Mobile to tour USS Alabama, and this was the only complete family photo to be made on the entire trip.  Dad is not in it since he took the photo, and wasn't inclined at the time to get other people to take a photo with him in it also.

  This was a year after Mother's father, Archie Miller, died. Her mother, Elner King Miller, went with us on this vacation.

Hotel Pines expedition 23 July 2016

Frances Trulock at 1956 Montreat conference

This appears to be summer, but may have been September, 1956.  Montreat Conference Center, North Carolina. Presbyterian women in the B.W.W., Board of Women's Work.  My paternal grandmother Frances Andrews Trulock is seated second from left.  I tried to decipher her handwriting, which was never an easy thing to do, but in this case was complicated by the age of the ink on back of the photo. I think she later had her front teeth capped.  She was 55 years old at this time (turned 56 on December 21, 1956).  Did most middle-aged people back then look this much older than people of the same age look today? 

Bellwood Cemetery photos

 Ruben Dollarhide, photo taken 23 June 2016.

 Walter N. Trulock III, photo taken 17 February 2015.

 Bitsy Mullins, photo taken 2 Sept. 2015.

 Jessie beside freshly dug grave, 21 July 2015.

Gift left in Jewish section of cemetery, 9 August 2015. The visible headstones belong to (left to right) Samuel Katzenstein, Blanche B. Katzenstein, Josephine B. Kornfeld, and Joseph Kornfeld.  The initial "B" stands for Bluthenthal.  Samuel Bluthenthal (1833-1917) is the resting-in-peace patriarch of this extended family plot, which has several Maier and Baum graves in it as well. Some were born in Europe and died in Pine Bluff. The Kornfelds were born in Pine Bluff and died (in the 1950s) in New York.

Father's Day 30 years ago

Father's Day 1986: Dad and me on the patio behind the condo he and Mary Ann lived in, on Andover Drive in Little Rock. Photo probably taken by Mary Ann.

20 years ago: England in May

Horses somewhere between London and Cambridge, closer to Cambridge than to London.

Regent's Park, London. The pigeons got to share a turkey sandwich with us, but one pigeon unexpectedly flipped a piece of turkey onto his or her back. The others were left to ponder the situation:  "Just how peckish are we feeling at the moment?"

Einstein disguised not as Robin Hood (re: Desolation Row by Bob Dylan) but as somebody's pissed off grandmother with a mustache. This is a Madame Tussaud wax figure in the lobby of the London Planetarium,  which is now part of Madame Tussaud's and no longer a planetarium.  The show we saw there in May of 1996 was as underwhelming as this likeness of Einstein. We can hope they've got a better wax figure of Albert now.

Spring 1966 photos

Easter of course. Jeff missing.

Hunter and hound (Arch and Nosey).