More from the Memory Bank

Rob, Louise, and Donny at Fall Creek Falls State Park (Tennessee), 1969.

We spent much of the summer of 1969 camping in Tennessee, including two memorable weeks at Fall Creek Falls State Park. We went swimming in the park's natural swimming holes every day and ate fish that Rob and I caught in a stream near our campground. Our very comfortable home for the outing was our little Ted Williams camper. 

Our paycheck from the private school where we taught in Miami was late, so we were living on a shoestring. But we had a great time. And made pictures that still bring a glow to my heart.

I don't remember what I used for a camera at Fall Creek Falls, but the pictures are square, so I apparently used some kind of twin-lens reflex, probably a Yashica. I shot only two rolls of Kodak's Kodacolor-X color negative film those two weeks (on a shoestring, as I said), but from those 24 exposures I got at least thirteen keepers. I'm happy with that.

Louise under the waterfall (Cane Creek Falls).

I still have the prints, but I've also scanned them and stored them in my computer. I'm deeply grateful for all the deposits my cameras have made in my memory bank over the years.

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