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IMG0102D and IMG0102E are the oldest images I have. I think that they are from the first rolls of film I shot with my new 35mm camera. I only spent a few days in Stockbridge that Summer, and my life would have been very different if I had spent the entire Summer there.
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The garage was behind the Park View House, my grandmother's guest
house with 22 bedrooms, three bathrooms, and two dining rooms.
I used to spend hours in the dusty old attic, exploring old trunks
full of old ... things. The new owners tore it down when they
paved over the back yard to make parking spaces.
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The railroad station and tracks are where we would meet incoming
guests from New York City, Philadelphia, and elsewhere. My mother
would drive the station wagon to meet them. My job was to load
and unload their luggage for tips ... two suitcases up two flights
of stairs meant two comic books.
Do you remember Arlo Guthrie's song, Alice's Restaurant? Well, these are those self-same railroad tracks of which he sang. The Park View House was also "just a half a mile" from them.
I have had a framed print of the tracks on the wall in my bedroom
ever since I gave up photography in 1975, if not longer. When
I moved to the cottage here on the lake in North Chelmsford, I
bought one of those fancy gallery lights and mounted it on the
frame. It's still my favorite of all of my photographs, because
of the memories it holds for me. (Actually, I think that the composition
is a little cliche.)
07390023 This image is from the original B&W negative, which I had transfered
to a Kodak PhotoCD in 1994. -=DAH=- 18-Sep-95
Last update: 13-May-96 by dennette@wiz-worx.com
<Who is this "Dennette" person?>