Hey Grand Pa, I’ll help you fix this up!
The captions below each slide are Howard Jr.'s commentary. Some of the longer ones run into the next caption.
Hey Grand Pa, I’ll help you fix this up!
H.P. and his toys at Grand Ma’s.
Howard P. King Sr. – He truly seemed to enjoy shoveling snow. Thelma had to help him put on … (a)
He did know how to pace himself and stop to rest when needed.
A devastating ice storm brought down trees, branches and power lines. Here we look down Dunton Drive. The year 1978–9.
Mostly broken limbs here.
Our white birches really suffered from the storm and my attempts to save them. As they … (b)
“The Swing Tree” bends to the ice.
More of the ice storm.
The tree by the patio succumbs to the ice.
Great Grand Pa’s birthday Feb ’79 with his guests Helen Lecky and H.P. IV.
Debbie graduates from Wytheville Community College.
(a) … his boots. The fact that a young lady occupied the apartment may have brought around this deed.
(b) … bent over, I would cut what I could to relieve them of the ice’s weight. I probably should have left them alone.
The procession for the pinning and capping ceremony.
Receiving of the pin of an R.N.
Debbie’s mother Dixie stands in the shadows of the grove where we had a picnic supper.
The Marriott on the Charles River in Boston MA. The site of a NACUFS conference …(c)
Another view from our room.
From this view it is hard to realize the proximity of city and highways.
I believe these people were signing up to go canoeing.
Thelma did some sightseeing – the Capital building for Massachusetts.
(c) … (National Association of College and University Food Services). I think this hotel is actually west of Boston in Needham, as opposed to the Charles River basin between Boston and Cambridge — Mark.