Lightly picking your brains

[janellla]

Hey Friends and Sistahs:  I inherited by father's collection of slides, mostly 35mm Kodachrome, which includes hundreds if not thousands of photos he took for his own use during his service with the US Dept. of Agriculture.  He traveled all over the US in the 1960's and 70's gathering crop statistics directly from the farms.  He made these photos

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[jenthegypsy]

I have absolutely no ideas/knowledge to share, but I wanted to tell you what a fantastic project this is. Bravo to your dad for documenting his project in a personal manner, and to you for updating it. I, personally, would love to see the iamges, wherever you end up putting them.

[janellla]

Thanks, Jen. Thing is, he died in 1989, and it has taken me this long to get up the nerve to tackle it. I had to wait for technology to catch up with me, e.g. slide-to-digital scanners.

[jenthegypsy]

I'm sorry he's gone, Jane. My daddy passed in the late 70's, long before I had the smarts to snag all of the slides he took on his 3 tours of Antarctica. I remember him showing those to mama and me (using a sheet as a screen). I'm sure she must have "cleaned them out" when she was ridding herself of clutter in her later years.

[janellla]

My mom and dad had only been divorced for a short time when he died in 1989--awkward, to say the least--and I'm an only child, so I got everything in his house. I'd always loved his slide collection, so that was one of the first things I brought home.

Antarctica, whoa! Was it a military assignment, or was it somewhere he just loved to go? The latter would have been unusual at that time.