Lenox, Massachusetts, circa 1910. "Entrance driveway to the Hotel Aspinwall." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

It's seventy years ago in Idyllic Larkspur™, where we find me (bottom left corner) with Bob, David, Bob, Jim, Jim, Margaret, Sandy, Donna, Rae Ann, Roberta, Virginia, Jerry, Buzzy, Fred, Gordy, Frances, Alice, Alice, Sheila, Mrs. Madeline Drew and others whose names I forget. This was taken within a month of losing nearly half our classmates, they having been siphoned off to the district's brand new school in neighboring "Twin City," almost-as-Idyllic Corte Madera. And that one was already overcrowded, for which first-wave baby boomers such as we must shoulder the blame. As for me, good old L-CM was just four blocks from our home at 9 Arch Street, and I continued to walk the round-trip every school day, rain or shine, until I graduated 8th grade. View full size.

Magnolia, Massachusetts, circa 1910. "Autos at entrance to the Oceanside." At the intersection of Hesperus and Lexington avenues. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts, circa 1905. "General view from Atlantic House -- Paragon Park and resorts." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Circa 1900. "Main Street -- Northfield, Massachusetts." The bucolic burg last glimpsed here. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Circa 1900. "Main Street -- Northfield, Massachusetts." Home of the Home Bakery and Candy Kitchen. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

"McCrory fire, 11/21/29." Washington, D.C., firefighters at the McCrory five-and-dime on Seventh Street N.W., after a lunchtime boiler explosion in the store's basement -- a disaster whose final toll was six dead and dozens injured. 4x5 inch glass negative. View full size.

Honolulu, 1957. "On the beach at Waikiki." 35mm Kodachrome slide by Toni Frissell for the Sports Illustrated assignment "Hawaii -- The Sporting Look." View full size.

May 1964. 35mm Kodachrome by Toni Frissell for the Life magazine assignment "The Splendor of a Great Family: The Vanderbilts." View full size.

        On her country estate near Stamford, Connecticut, Gloria Vanderbilt enjoys a picnic with her husband, Wyatt Cooper, and two sons by her marriage to Leopold Stokowski -- Chris, 12, and Stan, 13. She came upon the picturesque waterfall with its secluded cottage one day and couldn't resist buying it. "It was like something out of a fairy tale," she exclaims.

March 1909. A trio of Hartford, Connecticut, newsies. "Have been selling two years. Youngest, Yedda Welled, is 11 years old. Next, Rebecca Cohen, is 12. Next, Rebecca Kirwin, is 14." Glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size.

June 18, 1960. "Rowing, Harvard-Yale Regatta. Crew race at New London, Connecticut." We're back aboard the Versatile with yachtsman Harold "Mike" Vanderbilt (seated), Cabin Boy and various other guests who have yet to lose their shirts. As well as some expensive looking sporting goods. 35mm Kodachrome slide by Toni Frissell. View full size.

June 18, 1960. "Rowing, Harvard-Yale Regatta. Crew race at New London, Connecticut." Our host (far right) is Commodore Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, and we are aboard his 90-foot yacht the Versatile, last seen here. 35mm Kodachrome slide by Toni Frissell. View full size.

June 18, 1960. "Rowing, Harvard-Yale Regatta. Crew race at New London, Connecticut." Man overboard! 35mm Kodachrome slide by Toni Frissell. View full size.

        UPDATE: The Ronald Balcoms at "Windsong," their home in Palm Beach.

"Florida -- couple with car, Roney Balcom, 1954" is all it says here. The car being a 1955 Thunderbird. 35mm Kodachrome by the fashion photographer Toni Frissell. View full size.

Circa 1906. "Glimpse of harbor. Marblehead, Massachusetts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.