Suburban Chicago, June 1980. Everyone looks more relaxed in this snapshot.
Showing posts with label 1980. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1980. Show all posts
September 4, 2016
August 23, 2016
August 14, 2016
August 12, 2016
August 9, 2016
After we pick, we pit.
Door County, Wisconsin, July 1980. It's the second part of the job.
Ha! I remember how much I loved those curtains when Mom sewed them in the 1970s. The fabric featured a Japanese-inspired motif.
August 7, 2016
August 2, 2016
July 30, 2016
Fish Boil: It's a meal of boiled fish.
Door County, Wisconsin, July 1980. We treat my Godmother and her husband to a traditional Door County meal.
July 24, 2016
Exchanging Portraits (Part 64)
Kaunas, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, about 1980. My Kaunas Cousin has grown up.
June 28, 2016
Related by Marriage: Summer Visitor
Suburban Chicago, June 1980. Mr. Irene's paternal Uncle, Ignas, visits the Chicago branch of the family. He's at the head of the table. Mr. Irene's Mom sits on the far left, and Aunt Danutė takes charge of serving (even though she is not the party's hostess). Anthony sits to Ignas's left.
February 26, 2016
January 28, 2016
Related by Marriage: Taking the Stage
Chicago, Illinois, July 1980. Mr. Irene's Los Angeles Cousin performs at the Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival.
(Check out the hairstyle of the fellow on the left, wearing the blue vest. Rod Stewartish!)
January 12, 2016
Related by Marriage: Stars in his Eyes
Evanston, Illinois, about 1980. That's how the friend who sent this photo described Mr. Irene's expression. Mr. Irene, who does not remember the snapshot, thinks he looks like he is wearing a straight jacket.
October 20, 2015
October 8, 2015
Related by Marriage: Performance Garb
Suburban Chicago, July 1980. Mr. Irene's Los Angeles Cousins prepare to depart for the Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival. The group stands in the backyard of Mr. Irene's childhood home.
Does the design on those sleeves look familiar? Does it look like Mr. Irene's Los Angeles Cousin is checking her cell phone?
September 1, 2015
I return after the first day of classes.
Urbana, Illinois, September 1980. I did my most productive studying in this room. The book on the "sliding bed/couchy thing" is for a course about twentieth-century Russian history. (Russian history was one of my four fields in graduate school.) An engaging professor taught that class. I was sorry to learn he recently died.
May 28, 2015
Graduation Stage
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, June 1980. Who was the speaker at your graduation? The speaker at our graduation was Abner Mikva.
March 7, 2015
Men in Caps
Chicago area, about 1980. My friend Kris sent this photo of her Dad, Vytenis (standing, second from left), and his engineering-school classmates. Kris writes:
The photo of all the men with sashes and funny hats is a reunion of my Dad's engineering fraternity from college. It was called Plienas. Dad attended Kaunas University. Some of the surviving members used to get together in the Chicago area occasionally. They had reproduction hats and sashes made for one of the early reunions. I remember my Dad saying that a clean cap was the sign of a new member, so the newbies used to take their hats outside and throw them in the dirt and stomp on them to make them look like they had been worn for a while. I think Mom still has the hat and sash tucked away in a drawer. I'll try to find it and photograph it. As I recall it has three intertwined letters embroidered in metal thread (Plienas means "Steel") on the top of it representing the motto.More on cap traditions here.
Thanks to my friend Kris for making this photo available to us.
March 1, 2015
Sunday Paper: Cottage Edition
Door County, Wisconsin, March 1980. Gigi sits next to Mom, but she focuses her attention on Dad.
February 3, 2015
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