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April 08, 2023
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A wedding in Hjorring, Denmark, July 1973, plus shots of trains in Wisconsin and other miscellania from Denmark ~
I was a summer exchange student in Denmark with Youth for Understanding. The family I was placed with had five daughters, four of whom were adults and had moved out. The youngest, Mukke, was two weeks older than I and lived at home wit...
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April 06, 2023
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May 1979, Cornell College graduation ~
A year after I graduated from Cornell College I went back up to Mount Vernon to watch the graduation of the next class. I particularly wanted to see Dan Caldwell before he moved on. Graduation is an amazing crescendo of energy with an amazing silence following, like the closing chord of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepp...
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April 02, 2023
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July 1973, Sjaelland and Vendsyssel, Denmark ~
This contact sheet is a collection of photographs from at least four different places in Denmark: Kronborg Castle, a beach house at the north of Sjaelland, a quarry outside Hobro, and Hjorring.
Kronborg Castle was the first castle I’d toured. The Danes said it was the scene for Shakespeare’s Hamlet....
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Progress Notes
March 24, 2023
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It’s too bad that I can’t structure this blog to begin with the oldest, first entries, rather than the latest, newest post.
I suggest you start at the beginning. (A very good place to start.) The first few entries are general musings about this project and photography in general. Then I begin to tell some stories behind the photographs. I’ve tried...
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March 19, 2023
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Negatives from all over, but all at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. Makes me wish I’d taken better notes when I started this project. The dates are all guesswork. If you know better, let me know. The campus photos (b), wrestling photos, and those pictures of David Hamilton praying with his sister and another man are from February 1977. I put...
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