“The Road Gang” – Under Rita’s watchful eye, Howie fills a bucket with creek gravel. Cindy prepares to put…
The captions below each slide are Howard Jr.'s commentary. Some of the longer ones run into the next caption.
“The Road Gang” – Under Rita’s watchful eye, Howie fills a bucket with creek gravel. Cindy prepares to put…
… another one on the wagon. Judy stands by to offer encouragement.
Howard in the…
…blackberry patch on the rim of the hill pond. Barn in the background fell from age and lack of use or care. Wish now we’d taken steps to preserve it.
The “UFO” over the Lecky chimney is in reality a Frisbee, and the boys are Mark and Jim McFadden. Helen Lecky keeps an …
…eye on things from her kitchen window.
Blair Smith prepares to launch the Frisbee.
A sunset view across the field behind our house at 111 Dunton Drive.
Mark takes up golf and Shag looks on with dubious interest. We note the beginnings of the hemlock hedge.
Another flash failure but an interesting result.
Cindy and Trudy in front of the Truman Library in Independence MO as we start a western tour.…(a)
The Truman home in Independence MO. We drove by, and stopped to take a picture, but did not go in. In 1994,…(b)
The Corn Palace in Mitchell SD both the exterior and interior decoration is redone each year using ears of corn.
The Corn Palace, Mitchell SD, an interior mural.
(a, cont'd): Howard and Judy behind the bush, and mark stands by the second column from the right leaving either Thelma or Howie to have been the photographer. We had camped east of here the night before, after leaving Kentucky.
(b, cont'd): I saw a TV program where his daughter Margaret took the audience through the house.
Another exterior view. These were bought slides, our trip was actually 1969.
Our camp site in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the children prepare to affix decals to show which states we …
… had been through and the local sites of interest we visited.
The decal project continues.
The Black Hills taken from the car.
The stone faces of the Presidents come into view.
The children walk towards the observation point.
A photo op with a native American.
A view of the stone faces from the observation point.
A second view from lower down using the trees to frame the works.
The Gold Mine Tipple.
The gang takes a ride on a cable car to see what is on the other side of the mountain.
A purchased slide of the Needles area.