00055
June 16, 2024
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Contact sheet 55 is another set of mismatched negative strips from different rolls of film and different situations.
The first set of photos, with “a” in the file name, is from the first major snowfall my freshman year at Cornell College. I had not yet fallen in love with Janet Paige (Kuller). I had not yet moved into Altoona Hall. I was only begi...
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Interlude
June 08, 2024
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It's been about two months since I've written a blog entry. To do a blog right, you need to update quickly and routinely to keep people reading. I haven't been doing it right. So, an explanation beyond "It's planting season in the garden."
A month or so before my last blog entry Zenfolio, the group that hosts my website, changed its terms of servi...
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00054
April 16, 2024
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The photographs on contact sheet #54 were at the graduation ceremony of Cornell College in May 1979. I drove up to Mount Vernon from my home at the co-op in Iowa City to see Dan Caldwell and a few others in that class before they left for good.
I had met Dan Caldwell his freshman year. He lived in Rorem Hall. My fiancé Janet had a work-study job c...
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00053
March 14, 2024
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I have been scanning the contact sheets in their chaotic disorder. It seems that the contact sheets with the lower numbers, like 53, are more likely to have negatives from a variety of situations. I may have put together these contact sheets last, with the left-over negatives I could find no other home for. These negatives are much like old school...
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00052
February 26, 2024
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Contact sheet #52 - The marriage of Jim Fuller and Sharon Dahnke at St. Mary’s Church in Muscatine, 1974, and an end-of-year barbeque for Altoona Hall and friends of Altoona, May 1977.
Jim Fuller was one of the first people I met when I moved to Muscatine in June 1967. His father was my father’s new boss. We moved to a tiny house at the bottom of...
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