A wet snow blankets the hedges.
The captions below each slide are Howard Jr.'s commentary. Some of the longer ones run into the next caption.
A wet snow blankets the hedges.
Clings to wires.
If not snow – ICE.
It can be bleak in Blacksburg, which might justify the students referring to the town as “Bleaksburg.”
Thelma on the patio.
Cindy reads on the patio with the camper parked in the back driveway minus its spare tire.
The Christmas tree partially decorated.
The chimney with its red felt and snow flakes. White poinsettia have been added.
The candy house, an annual favorite on the antique trunk which had been Thelma’s mother’s. Thelma lined it … (a)
The adornment of the tree complete and packages appear beneath and around.
The year of the race track.
Layouts anyway you can imagine.
(a) … with a cloth material and we finished the outside with an antiquing kit and trimmed it in black.
And another.
Choir boys made from magazines, dowel, and Styrofoam balls, yarn, etc.
Gifts on display beneath the tree.
Howie checks instructions for his stereo. The legs in the background belong to Aunt Dorothy who was…
…with us for this Christmas.
Howie’s big gift item for this year (1971) was this stereo.
Gifts on display around the tree.
Pine Point ME, the year of the sand dollars.
The other end of the table with its display of sand dollars.