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Anniversaries
Aug. 18th, 2020 01:35 pmTwo anniversaries going on concurrently at the moment. Sixty years ago right now, our family was driving east on Route 66 headed for the PONY League World Series in Washington, Pennsylvania, and a half-century ago, I was in Tacoma, Washington state, enjoying two weeks with cousins during my first-ever time away from home without my parents.
Because I'm lousy at doing two things at once and doing them well, though, I have a little bit of a predicament deciding which anniversary to prepare materials for and write about. I'm helped a little by the fact that no photos or home movies survive from our trip to Washington, PA, and the memories of a 5-year-old are for the most part lost or fragmentary. In fact, my only remaining memorabilia from our PONY League trip (other than newspaper clippings) are those pictured below.
So, I think I'll concentrate on the Washington state trip, instead. I'm doing image processing right now on the photos I took then, and will probably write up the accompanying stories and post them here when the anniversary of the end of the trip comes up on the 26th.
It's all good, though! It's work like this that keeps my mind occupied all day, which is necessary for an old man living alone to avoid going senile. Always gotta have a project to work on!
Because I'm lousy at doing two things at once and doing them well, though, I have a little bit of a predicament deciding which anniversary to prepare materials for and write about. I'm helped a little by the fact that no photos or home movies survive from our trip to Washington, PA, and the memories of a 5-year-old are for the most part lost or fragmentary. In fact, my only remaining memorabilia from our PONY League trip (other than newspaper clippings) are those pictured below.
So, I think I'll concentrate on the Washington state trip, instead. I'm doing image processing right now on the photos I took then, and will probably write up the accompanying stories and post them here when the anniversary of the end of the trip comes up on the 26th.
It's all good, though! It's work like this that keeps my mind occupied all day, which is necessary for an old man living alone to avoid going senile. Always gotta have a project to work on!
