[Archie Stewart--home movies] Reel 136

Date1960

Can DescriptionsReel 136: Archie Stewart can notes: 1. Camp 8-21 May. 2. Put up anchor. Record R.N.G. 3. Egonn and Anne Hafer 24 May. 4. Weikert's for Nelson Wedding 5 June. 5. General Eisenhower departs from Stewart AFB following reunion at West Point 6. Family reunion 18 July (Mary Leaves). Ann leaves 19 July. 7. Camp 8-20 August. Screening notes: Rob Golding and Earl Bonness prop ladder to tree, hoist anchor. Interior, man talking into microphone, large reel to reel recorder on table. Archie Stewart taking notes--making the Rob Golding audio recordings now at University of Maine, Orono. VS men laying out garden, hoeing, planting. WS of people posing in front of mountain scenery. Ann Hafer Maguire and Egon Buckecker of Lucerne Switzerland. Two couples and boxer dog pose on lawn in front of white house, Weikerts. WS airplane, crowd in FG. Rows of police stand at attention. Eisenhower, in civilian clothes, passes through crowd, smiling, shaking hands. MS Eisenhower climbs stairs to plane, turns and waves with both hands. Presidential seal to left, flower emblem on right. Plane taxis. MCU potato with faint outline of face. Three children playing in wading pool. Great grandmother watches, seated beside geraniums, Back porch, 388 Grand Street. VS of people kissing great grandmother. Family relaxing on porch. African American maid, Esther Gunther, holding Abby. Family loading into car, departing, Hafers and Saulses. VS family posing with great grandmother on porch. Camp, LS of lake, VS people on shore, dock. Swimming, canoeing. Two men use deer carrier to transport elderly woman through woods to see garden. VS of vegetable gardening. People eating at picnic table, lake in BG. WS of four canoes on lake. VS of people relaxing in clearing, dappled light. Tent in woods. Children in tent. Boy using washboard to clean clothes. Chopping wood for kindling. Earl Bonness tosses hatchet onto stump as boys watch. African American woman, Esther Gunther, watches man water garden. VS of vegetable crop, lettuce, tomatoes. Using pump to draw water from lake. People seated in stern of boat, moving across lake. Heading out.