One of the tasks we needed to complete in taking care of the parent’s estate and the volumes of stuff needing new homes, or, some sort of dispositioning, is figuring out what to do with a thousand slides and negatives of mine which my Mom patiently organized into binders. Then, there is the thousand of negatives and slides from other sources: Mom, Dad, and whatever, that also exist

This weekend, I have acquired the bulk of these assets; with a new-fangled device called a F2D 20-super film to digital converter by Wolverine, I am culling through the historical collection.

First up, here we have brothers Jim and Jack on the right-of-way dock on Poggy Bay in 1968, before the advent of global-warming (ok, before we knew that the globals were warming). Not sure who the photographer was on this one.

The next image is of the schooner Voyager in Mystic near the draw bridge in December 1983 (or so). I have no idea of any significance to this vessel or why I took the picture, but image is mine.

A 1983 image of Lillian Mcgillicuddy, resident and neighborhood Mom of Grove street, Beacon Hill, Boston.

These are all from negatives and the conversion quality is pretty good in my estimation.