Sunday Paper: Los Angeles Edition

Los Angeles, California, 1987. Mr. Irene and his paternal Uncle, Ignas, catch up on the news.

A Ghost Town, in Three Takes

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Near Flathead Lake, Montana, July 1987. Be cautious when you snoop around: people still live in some of these cabins.

Graduation Day, in Three Takes

New Haven, Connecticut, May 25, 1987. These seats are reserved for the graduates.

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New Haven, Connecticut, May 25, 1987. There's Mr. Irene!

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New Haven, Connecticut, May 25, 1987. Even Aunt Martha had fun at the graduation picnic.

Roadtrip Reunion

Near Missoula, Montana, July 1987. I visit my Montana friends, and we're heading to Glacier National Park.

Purcell-Sill Reunion

Glacier National Park, Montana, July 1987. The Purcell Sill bands the park.

This is not a "swimming lake."

Glacier National Park, Montana, July 1987. It looks inviting, but the water is too cold.

Swiftcurrent Lake

Glacier National Park, Montana, July 1987. I saw the boats many times, but I never took the tour.

Neighborly

Missoula, Montana, July 1987. Two of my friends' Yorkies guard the fence.

Watch the curves.

Near Many Glacier Hotel, Glacier National Park, Montana, July 1987. I return to Glacier during a visit with my Montana friends.

Swiftcurrent Reunion

Glacier National Park, Montana, July 1966. When we visited Glacier National Park—in 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, and 1973—we stayed at the Swifcurrent Motor Inn. My Parents rented two adjacent rooms at the end of one of the Inn's buildings. The price for the two rooms was $28.00 per night. We could have stayed at the cheaper cabins the Inn offered, but back then, no cabins featured baths, and Mom and I insisted on indoor plumbing. This is a photo of the entry to our rooms.

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Glacier National Park, Montana, July 1987. Here's a view of the Swiftcurrent Motor Inn's entrance in 1987, when I visited my Montana friends, and they drove me from Missoula to Glacier.

Related by Marriage: Admiration

New Haven, Connecticut, May 25, 1987. Mr. Irene's Parents beam as Mr. Irene shows off his graduate-school diploma.

An Earlier Flood, in Three Takes

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Suburban Chicago, August 1987. We're thinking today about our family and friends in the Chicago area. We hope you are safe and dry.

 

The fir tree in the first and second photos is the "little spruce" my Parents planted when I was born.

Glassy

Glacier National Park, Montana, July 1987. There's not a ripple in Lake MacDonald.

Bedtime in the Big Sky

Missoula, Montana, July 1987. Catch the view before you turn in.

Meškė, Groomed

Suburban Chicago, August 1987. Meškė was the Poodle my Parents acquired after Gigi died. She was very calm and much less excitable than Gigi.

We pose with our poodles.

After my Dad died, I returned to Ohio and finished up the Spring Semester. I then came back to Suburban Chicago and spent the summer with my Mom.

Suburban Chicago, August 1987. Mom and I sit in the living room with our respective poodles, Žulė and Meškė. Mom and I were on our way to a Sunday dinner party at the home of my Godmother.

General Manners: Mind your manners in the "Back Country."

Glacier National Park, Montana, July 1968. A Hoary Marmot sets out the guidelines for back-country hikers.

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Glacier National Park, Montana, July 1987. Sperry Park Chalet is a 22 kilometer hike. Woot!

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Glacier National Park, Montana, 1987. Be alert.