Goodbye Kodachrome Goddammit

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My father’s birthday was June 28, 1907.  He died in 1989 at 81.

He loved boats of all shapes and sizes and photography.  He took this photo in 1953 of my older brother and pigtailed me on Kodachrome slide film … Read the rest

D-Day Memories

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It was 1952. I had never flown before but at the age of seven I knew a C-47 when I saw one. It had carried thousands of Allied paratroopers on D-Day 1944 and through this doorway I was now crossing, … Read the rest

Thorny Twilight

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The day qualified as miserable.  Leaden skies, sleet, fog.  It looked like it was twilight all day long.

And, then, when it actually was twilight, I stopped at the library and pulled into a parking spot in front of an … Read the rest