Holidays

My grandmother Hazel (center, spotted dress) and her pals partying it up during a Prohibition-era long weekend in the New York City suburbs of Glen Cove, Long Island. She was 22 years old when this photo was taken, enjoying single life in the Jazz Age. I like to think the tall fellow on the right is sneaking a real beer and not the fake stuff. View full image.

When last we saw Charles and Harriet, my parents were shown on their wedding day http://www.shorpy.com/node/4225. A few years later, and here I am... celebrating my first Earlham College May Day. A re-creation of the English May Day festivals, students took the parts of village participants, from maidens wending around the May Pole to Morris dancers. (Think Dad was usually a jester.) In the interests of political correctness, the college has ceased this activity -- something that, in the past, had been awaited for every fourth year. Kodachrome print. Update: Just found the original slide, and Mom had notated this as 1950.

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Someplace near the crossroads of America

The kids' table in my mother's newly remodeled kitchen in Mount Airy, North Carolina. I'm the girl on the right. It's either Thanksgiving or Christmas 1966. Kitchen is still the same except the oven door was replaced with a white one sometime in the 1980s. Kodachrome slide. View full size.

Washington circa 1921. A closeup of the Sport Mart Christmas window display seen here. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

"Italian Festa." Circa 1912 street festival in New York's Little Italy. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size | Even bigger.