I haven't updated the Ginsburgh family blog since March so time to get back on it. After such a long break, it's hard to remember where everything is; I think it's all still here.
Some background. Shortly after my father's death in 2007, I liberated my family's slide collection. I brought the boxes of slides home along with the slide projector. I subsequently went through all the slides from 1961 to the mid 1970s and selected some from each box to work on. I decided to send the slides to a service in Portland (Pixmonix) to digitize them and put them on a CD. I highly recommend them. I created a blog Ginsburgh Family Pix to post them and to write about what I knew of the image. The idea was that other family members could look at the picture and fill in other details and possibly their memory of the occassion.
I fizzled out around 1968 mainly because, increasingly, I'm not in the pictures and hardly at all after 1970, when I set out for college on my own...my own odyssey, thank you very much and I ain't NEFER coming back. So much for self-centeredness.
This shot shows Nobuko (our exchange student, who I hope to be talking more about in the near future) jumping off the high dive at the swimming pool of my high school, Rio Americano, in suburban Sacramento, California in 1968. It was a big deal to get up the nerve to try it. That's the beauty of the exchange student phenomena, do you have the nerve to take a risk to do something completely new? I didn't have it.
1 comment:
I was so hoping that that was you!
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