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Monthly Archives: February 2010

West Virginia: Battle of Point Pleasant & Todd roots

Sunday, February 21, 2010

My grandfather, Cecil Amos Todd, was born in Red House, West Virginia, in 1890. I’ve included photos I took in Red House many years ago, plus a 1947 family photo I copied. James Todd, my great-great-great-great grandfather, was one of the Virginia Militia who fought at Point Pleasant, and whose name appears on the monument. [...]

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1965 New York & 1967 Montreal World Fairs

Monday, February 15, 2010

In 1965 the Rockford West High School symphony orchestra played concerts in the New York State Pavilion at the World’s Fair, in Rockefeller Plaza in downtown New York, and on the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. These are BW photos I took during that trip. I played trumpet. In 1967 I rented [...]

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Arizona: Grand Canyon

Monday, February 15, 2010

In June, 1971, I began hitch-hiking across America from Phoenix, Arizona. This album shows the first part of my journey, from Tempe up to the Grand Canyon, where I hiked down the South Rim and up the North Rim before resuming my hitching-hiking. I spent a week at the bottom. Regrettably, I only had one [...]

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Walt Disney World

Sunday, February 14, 2010

This is Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, Epcot Center, and Disney Studios in Orlando, Florida, taken in summer, 2009, unless otherwise noted. Amy Todd appears in many of these. I have added digital copies of older photos from visits in the 1980s & 1990s, along with a few from Disneyland California in 1976. Photos from [...]

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King of Zheng Tomb, Xinzheng, China

Saturday, February 13, 2010

The discovery of this tomb in Xinzheng, Henan, in 1923, along with the later discovery of FuHao’s tomb in Anyang, laid the foundation for Chinese archaeology. The main tomb belonged to a King of Zheng, dating to around 575 B.C. It contained two crane & lotus hu vessels, arguably the finest bronze castings made anywhere [...]

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Modern Beijing: Random Views

Friday, February 12, 2010

I have many other albums of historic Beijing. This album is made up mostly of modern parts of Beijing which don’t fit in any of my other categories. Beijing is an incredible city, and these photos hardly do it justice. I got the train photos while stranded on the remnants of the Ming Dynasty City [...]

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