Gourd? Fishing lure?

Just be careful how you clean it......

Found in basement box, something else I cannot throw away. Made by an artist named Carolyn. See inscription near tail. Click to enlarge.

THOSE WERE

....the days!

Airstream encampment by the Pyramids: Fold-down theme previously reported

Archival, continued

The day was September 18, 1942

or at least the date stamped on the back of the snapshot by the Brownie film processor.

Uncle Meredith, not yet shipped out with the US Navy as an officer on a Destroyer in the Pacific, took me for a ride on an Iowa go-cart track.

You can see by my expression that it was a thrilling pre-Destroyer ride. Click image to enlarge.

Sunny Rupnow, the late, unforgotten

click on image to enlarge

From a dusty box in the basement

and the dig goes on.........

Ft. Hood memorial service