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11/4/02 Jemma Mitchell's Moscow Photos - This is a page of 'thumbnail' photos that link to the large (1280x960) photofiles of Jemma's beautiful photos of Red Square, St. Basil's, Lenin's Tomb, GUM, and other scenes around the Kremlin, the Moscow River, and her 'flat.' 9/7/02 Spartus Miniature vs Argus A - The first camera I used was my mother's Spartus Miniature 127 roll film camera. Many years later I was given the opportunity of purchasing a pre-war Argus A, predecessor of the famous Argus C-3. I was immediately struck by their similarity of form and these photos and comments describe them. 9/4/02 More Photos from Sydney - I have completed a third page of photos from Sydney, Australia. This page includes a large panoramic photo of Sydney from North Head. There are views of the "Heads" from the ferry and views of the beautiful buildings along the coast in Manly. 8/22/02 Luther Alonzo Maxwell - Luther Maxwell was my maternal grandfather. He was born and raised and lived and died in Conway County, Arkansas. He was a well-educated man for that time and taught school from the time he was 18 until he lost his hearing in his mid-30s. He then farmed and sold fruit and fruit trees on his 160-acre farm. He also served on the school board and as lodge secretary and church treasurer. He achieved the rank of 2nd Lieutenant during World War I but the war ended before he had to go overseas. He spoke proudly of having been at Officer's Training camp where Dwight D. Eisenhower was a Lieutenant Colonel. He seldom traveled, but did drive to New Mexico to visit his little brother around 1930. 6/14/02 Ethel Pauline Skipper - During my recent visit in Arkansas and Oklahoma, Ione, one of my father's few remaining Skipper cousins, told me about their move to and early life in Webbers Falls. I've added it to Ethel's story. 6/14/02 Snapshots from Visits Home - Photos of family at Decoration Day Observances at Old Liberty Cemetery where my mother is buried and at Lanty Cemetery where her parents are buried. Ann's dad at his parents' tombstone in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Folks at the fish fry hosted by Ann's sister and her husband. These page link to more photos from a trip in February 2001 including some of my mother before her final illness and of my high school girlfriend, who attended a surprise 60th birthday party for me. 6/8/02 The Cigar Box cont. - I have been watching for nature shots this spring to be added to the Cigar Box. Some of them are here. There are aphids, ants, bees, a spider, a cicada (taken in 1973), some beautiful wild flower blooms, and an old photo of some posts (old railroad ties) on the beach at Galveston. 4/18/02 A Beautiful Bride Portrait - I did photography for small, simple weddings many years ago and this portrait of a beautiful bride is presented as another sample of film resolution; this time with color negative film. My computer display just doesn't show the true resolution that can be obtained in a print. 4/18/02 A Eulogy for Our Mother - My sister Marinelle gave this eulogy at our mother's funeral April 11th. I have included some photos of mom, a MIDI of an old hymn for my brother John, and a beautifully written, comforting note from one of Marinelle's close friends, Tom Carpenter, City Attorney of Little Rock. 3/18/02 Ozarks Wildlife Club a filmstrip presentation. I travel through northwest Arkansas so often and have several good photos of that mountain scenery that I thought of doing a pictorial essay of the area. Then I remembered that there were a couple of filmstrip presentations of the Ozarks among the many photos, slides, and movies in Uncle Irving’s things. As a memorial to his work and to promote Arkansas tourism, I scanned the 72 images from one of the filmstrip and set them up to be viewed in a way that simulates a filmstrip presentation. An introductory page is first. 3/17/02 More Halbrook Stories - This one tells how the Halbrooks came to be in Arkansas in the early 19th century. This one tells of an incident in which one of Andrew's nephews was killed. 3/8/02 Perluvinier is an acapella quartet from Iceland. A member of this quartet left a note in my guestbook today. Their site introduces the quartet and its members and has sample audio clips from the songs on their recent CD recording. Very beautiful music! 2/25/02 More Halbrook Stories - I have added two more - short, but poignant. 2/24/02 Florence Skipper was the oldest child of Dave and Kate Skipper. She was born just after the Civil War and grew up in a very primitive land in a very primitive time. 2/22/02 White Water - Sunlight dapples the water rippling over pebbles at the headwaters of the White River in northwest Arkansas. 2/22/02 Jonquils were very common around the old home places in Arkansas in the first half of the previous century. Many of them are still growing where the old houses used to be. These Jonquils are from bulbs brought from back home several years ago. 2/20/02 Dave Skipper's Daughters Dave and Mary Kate Skipper had six daughters in addition to their three sons (another son died in infancy). The sons get more attention because they carry the family name, but the daughters have important family stories too. I have become re-acquainted with several descendants of the daughters during the process of checking family history so I’m going to include some biographical information about the daughters as I obtain it. I’m beginning with the youngest daughter, Ethel Pauline Skipper, who married James Phillip Turner, because some of her children are still living and her oldest son provided much Skipper family history and several photos. 2/14/02 A True Story of Love and Betrayal in Early Twentieth Century Rural Arkansas This is a true story except that the names have been changed. The details about 'Stella' came from the oral storyteller; the other information is from 'Bill's' autobiography. This is part of the 'Halbrook Stories' and in the next few days I will be adding several more. If you are following the Halbrook Stories, look there for the additions. I won't be listing them here until I get the next set prepared in a month or so. 2/10/02 "Chang and Eng" A Book Review - I finished reading this book by Darin Strauss during our recent visit with family in Arkansas. I enjoyed the book so much, I wrote a review of it and put it in my Live Journal. I don't expect to list every entry in the Live Journal, so you'll have to check the Journal for new entries. 1/21/02 The Cigar Box cont. - While sorting through some old negatives and prints, I found some taken in the spring of 1962 that were taken on the campus of the University of Arkansas. Ann and I were dressed for some special occasion. I also have included some miscellaneous shots, both old and new, to add to the Cigar Box: Fields of cows and wild flowers; A mole cricket; and B&W photos of leaves, berries, and a dead tree in a pond. 1/18/02 I found and old 'paper' negative that I made with an antique Rexoette box camera. I added it to the 'Penhole Camera' page. 1/14/02 I have added the group photo of the 4th Officers Training Scool at Camp Beauregard, La. in 1918. My Grandfather Luther Maxwell was a 2nd Lieutenant. I've also included a closer scan that shows him more clearly. This was scanned from a 35mm negative copy photo of the original print. The original print was about 7x20 inches. Punch the 'Maxwells' button at the top of the page or 'Luther Maxwell' on the Site Index page. 1/14/02 Film Resolution - A portait of a young woman, enlarged to show her eyes in great detail, illustrates the best resolution and sharpness I achieved with home processed B&W film. 1/10/02 Stereo Photography - A stereo photo pair is displayed with instruction for viewing in 3-D by the "cross-eyed," straight view, and mirror techniques. There is also a brief account of my experience with stereo photo systems and links to several excellent and comprehensive sites on stereo photography. 1/8/02 Photographic Perspective - Our experience with photography gives us the impression that the focal length of the lens will create a particular perspective in the resulting photograph. However, the photos shown here illustrate that it is camera-to-subject distance, not lens focal length that makes the difference. 1/7/02 Grandpa's Old Barn - I was surprised when I first glanced at this photographic negative when I peeked at it during the washing process. Read the text before scrolling down to the photos. I have included views of Grandpa's house and barn in the snow and the view east toward Round Mountain. 1/3/02 Photography without Glass - An old pinhole photograph is compared to a modern 35mm photo of the re-created scene with an explantion of the process for making a large-format pinhole photograph using photo enlarging paper. 12/28/01 An Unexpected Gender Difference in Suit Testing - I have added a short description of this unusual test result that occurred when we started using women as test subjects in vacuum chamber space suit testing. 12/19/01 TheJSC Space Center Roundup has published an issue commemorating the 40th anniversary of the announcement that the Manned Spacecraft Center would be located at Houston. Space buffs may enjoy reading some of the articles. A History of JSC is also online. 12/8/01 Page Scout has selected two of my 'space' pages for their science catagory. Their Web Site says that they have "The best pages on the web, and beyond!" I haven't checked that out, but here is their link; you can check them out yourself. (By the way, I'm proud that someone took note of the pages.) 12/1/01 How My Web Site Got Its Name When I signed up for the Personal Web Page feature on Prodigy, I was presented with a form to complete. The first blank was 'Name'; I put in my full name because I often do that to honor my Grandfather Maxwell, who had no sons. The form continued with address, phone number, e-mail address and so forth. I dutifully filled in every blank whether mandatory or not and the result was that my name appeared as the name of the site and my address and phone number were there for everyone to see! By the time I got the pages to appear, I had forgotten how to modify them and now it has been like it is for so long that I am no longer interested in changing any of it. 11/21/01Siblings - Photos of the six of us spanning a quarter century beginning with probably the first one taken shortly after baby brother, John, was born in 1954. 11/20/01The Circular Quay - Scenes along the quay around Sydney Cove: the Harbour Bridge, docks, Sydney Opera House, warehouse restaurant and shops on 'The Rocks,' and more green spaces. 11/8/01 Trip to Sydney - I finally selected, scanned, and uploaded a dozen slides from the trip to Sydney. These were taken in Sydney itself, except the skyline view which was taken from a ferryboat on the harbour. One of these days I'll tackle the dozens of other slides from the harbour, Botany Bay, Cabramatta, Bondi Beach, Manly, and Northhead. (Click the 'Trip to Sydney' button.) 11/2/01 The Cigar Box - LeeAnn has a 'junk drawer' for her photos and miscellaneous things. I chose a 'cigar box' for the extra photos I uploaded, but no longer display anywhere. My boyhood photos are stored in a couple of cigar boxes so I added a couple of photos of my high school girlfriend to the bunch. The collection includes butterflies, flowers, pokeberries, souvenirs from Moscow, the crop duster plane, White River water, a tree frog hiding in a rose, and a page of BUGS which includes a rare shot of mating 'walking-sticks' with a mosquito trying to bite 'em, a cicada and its larval husk, and spiders. 10/27/01 Louis' Summer Trip to England, Scotland, and Ireland. My son Louis is putting his travel photos on a Web Site. Take a look. 10/5/01 The First Photos - THESE are the very first photos I ever took. Some mistook the first 35 mm roll for my first photos. On that first roll of 127 roll film were pictures of my sisters, my Mom and Dad, some farm animals and pets, and our house. They were made in 1954 when I was 13 years old and just finishing the seventh grade. I have also included recent photos of the Spartus Miniature camera that I used. 9/17/01 Women in Space - I was involved in the vacuum chamber spacesuit training tests for Kathy Sullivan, the first female astronaut to do an EVA. 9/14/01 Spring comes on desert - This poem was written by Nguyen Qui Dinh, an exchange graduate student at the University of Arkansas, in the winter of '59-'60. Life goes on. This latest atrocity is one of a long list that I've been aware of in my lifetime and there are many others of which I know little. Is it possible to end the hatred that exists in the world? My prayer is that our country and the world will be wise enough to take the right path. - Jim Skipper 9/14/01 My Birthday - Some of you may be interested in the photos my oldest son took at my 60th birthday party back in February. Since he didn't know many of my highschool friends and some of our relatives, he didn't put much information with the photos. 9/5/01 Monte Ne, Arkansas - Interested in ghost towns, old ruins, sunken cities? Monte Ne is a fascinating, but little known 100 year old resort now covered by the waters of Beaver Lake. Beaver Lake was created by daming the White River in northwest Arkansas. (Yes, the White River of Clinton 'White Water' fame!) 8/9/01 More Photos - More images from the first rolls of B&W 35mm film. They were added to the previous page to make a set of four pages. 8/5/01 Images from My First Roll of 35mm Film - B&W photos made with the Kodak Signet 40 given me for high school graduation by my Uncle Irving and Aunt Nila. Subjects are classmates, date, kissing cousin, Father's tombstone, flowers, and landscapes. 8/2/01 The Leaf - Is it art? 8/1/01 STS-1 Post-flight Suit Test - Not all tests were successful. This is one interesting example. Astronaut Pinky Nelson volunteered to be the test crewman for a vacuum chamber test of a Shuttle EMU spacesuit after the first shuttle flight. 7/31/01 J A Skipper I have revised the biography of my Grandfather Skipper. I have added many photos to the existing text and have revised and added additional information obtained from relatives and from family documents. Just click the J A Skipper button at the top of the page. 6/25/01 Grand Canyon Photos - I found a box of slides from a trip to the Grand Canyon. I selected 16 and tried my hand at another set of pages using HTML. The photos are of the eastern end of the canyon from the south rim. 6/7/01 Testing Uncle Irving's Old Camera I bought Uncle Irving's old Nikkormat from the estate and shot a couple of test rolls to check it out. Nature, people, flowers, butterflys, self-portrait, magazine photo copy. This is my first complete page using HTML. Thanks to Jane for encouraging me. 6/5/01 Uncle Irving's Flowers I selected a few of the hundred or so flower photos from my uncle's collection. 6/5/01 Implosion of the Hotel Marion - 1980 In looking through my Uncle Irving's photos, negatives, and slides. I found this uncut roll with a sequence of shots of the implosion of the Hotel Marion in Little Rock. I assume he took them and that others might be interested in seeing them. 5/6/01 Moscow Photos Restored! The four Moscow pages are ready for viewing again except for the text on one of them. 4/30/01 Moscow Photos Too After much struggle to make the new Prodigy Building Blocks work the way I prefer, I have replaced the eleven photos on the 'Moscow Photos Too' page. The text will have to come later. Use button at upper right. I also put one of our wedding photos at the top of the 'Family Album'. 4/7/01 Andrea Jeanne has the most beautiful pages of photographs I have found on the Web in a year of surfing PWPs. Beautiful page graphics with scripture and poetry and an amazing variety of photographic subjects and techniques. See them at: Andrea's Looking Glass 4/6/01 HTML Page - I am trying HTML coding at this site: Three pages and some photos. Our 'twin' cats. 4/2/01 MOSCOW JOURNAL - I have added to the journal: Currency Exchange and the Week at Zvezda Moscow Journal 4/1/01 SMEAT The Skylab Medical Experiments Altitude Test was a 56-day test at reduced pressure in a vacuum chamber outfitted to resemble the Skylab. 2.5 megs of pictures of the astronauts involved, the press personnel, test team, facility, decals, and awards on seven pages. Each page loads in a reasonable time. Click here or use the index on the home page. 
3/13/01 My thanks to Jacklyn for framing my pictures on the Dave Skipper page and for the tip on how to make the second picture appear, even though the Prodigy template only provides for one picture. Her site is
Wolf Tracks
3/2/01 MOSCOW JOURNAL - Several months ago, I started to tell about my trip to Moscow. I have now typed the first part of my notes from the trip: the flight to Moscow and the first weekend tour. Later I'll write about the five days at Zvezda, the final weekend, and the trip home. Moscow Journal 2/26/01 CURRENT CATS - Several months ago a nice lady asked if I had pictures of our cats. I didn't then, but recently took some, so here they are. Our Cats 2/24/01 A PAGE FOR ENRIQUE - Photos from our recent trip to visit relatives in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Enrique from Argentina said that he would like to see them. Arkansas Trip 1/27/01 My First Decade -(Actually this is a preview; I only have five years completed. The large photo pages aren't complete, so the 'thumbnails' don't link to anything.) Use this link or the index on the Prodigy Home Page. 1/15/01 The story of my Great Grandfather Maxwell - five pages of text with 'thumbnail' photos linked to larger photos on the Geocities Site. Use this link or the index on the home page. Alvus Martin Maxwell 1/3/01 Family Photo Album II - Mostly slides from the 60's and 70's. There are a couple dozen on six pages on Geocities. 12/27/00 The story of John Quincy Skipper, my grandfather's older brother, written by his grandson, Ray Don Bostian. 11/3/00 Some views of the small river that flows through Wertheim, Germany. River in Wertheim 10/24/00 Check out this site prepared by Marina in Moscow. She has included links to many other sites of interest to those who are interested in learning more about Moscow and Russia. The old postcard views of Moscow 100 years ago are very interesting. She also has photos of her world travels with links to sites related to the areas she has visited. Use this link: http://www.geocities.com/volnushka/ |
