Images of People

Here are a few of the images that could have been in the book if I had wanted the print version to be dozens of pages longer and far more costly. I hope I haven’t made it too inconvenient for anyone by putting them here on the blog.

There won’t be too many pictures in this post. There won’t be any of Hanna or her family, of course. A few pictures of some other people will show up in posts about certain topics (like the Night of Harry Potter chapters). Images of Maps of the Deep Springs area, and of other items related to the story will follow this post.

Mom somehow managed to get all six of us together long enough to snap this picture. L to R on the couch: Cece, Me (Stevie on my lap), Jamie. On the floor: Maritia and Phillip. I was sixteen in that picture. Steve (the youngest of us) was two. We look a little dressed up. We might have been getting ready to go to church.

We lived on my grandparents’ farm when we first moved to Deep Springs. This was taken about the same time as the previous picture. I have on the same shirt. Steve and Phillip seem to be the only two interested in the photographer, which was either my mom or dad (I can’t tell who’s missing, Grampaw Phil is blocking a couple of the seats at the table).

This was Steve’s school picture, taken about the time I left Deep Springs for Houston.

In 1982, Minay and I came back through Deep Springs on our way back to Houston. We had driven to Colorado for our honeymoon, so we stopped and visited with Dad and Steve for a while (August 17, 1982). Minay took this picture of the three of us outside my Dad’s apartment. Steve was 22 then, probably 5’ 10” and 170 pounds, fairly close to his eventual size, 5’ 11” and 180 pounds. I was 6’ 1” then, but 40 pounds lighter than my current size, roughly 6 feet and 195 pounds.