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[[underlined]] 1937 [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] HOME, FAMILY AND FRIENDS [[/underlined]]

We bought the movie camera primarily to make a record of the children in motion as they grew and we took a number of shots for this purpose.  Unfortunately, prints from these 8-mm frames are not commercially available and even if they were, would be no good--or so I'm told by the experts.  This is because each frame is not only tiny but more importantly, represents a relatively long exposure of a usually moving subject and is very likely to be blurred.  So, for 1937 we have no prints of the children but merely some movie footage which, while interesting, can't be conveniently displayed.  Today we would much prefer to have the still pictures and be able to put the prints in here.  The 1937 movies start in the winter on the Peninsula.  Bab and Rog are out there slipping and sliding around on the ice dunes on the beach, which is fringed with trees covered with frozen spray, many bowed to the ground by the weight of it.  These pictures are in black-and-white so we miss the many shades of blue and brown that are there, but it is still a wild and beautiful place.  Then there is a shot of the Colonel coming out of our house, all bundled up and smoking his pipe, and getting into the Plymouth.  And then we jump to Spring.  We are out along the creek just west of Amey's store at Sterrettania and Bab and Rog are throwing rocks into the water and stepping inadvertently into it now and then.  They appear entranced with this spot and I think we paid it serveral visits.  Also, it was fun to go into Amey's General Store and look over their many wares.  Incidentally, I think Amey's is still there and looks about as it did then.  I think I'm a storekeeper at heart because such a store has long fascinated me.  The scene now shifts to our yard at 710 Delaware where Rog is attired in a baseball suit, most of the shirttails of which are hanging out and the pants appear to be about to drop off, and Rog is shamelessly clowning before the camera, making faces and assuming awkward positions.  Summer has arrived by the time the next shots come along and the children are on the beach again only in their swimming togs and very active in the water, particularly Bab, whom the Colonel used to refer to as a "water rat."  And then we are at Chautauqua and have the children and Dot Blatz with us, Dot having visited us that summer.  She looks pert and cute and I can still hear her ultra-southern way of speech.  But she never married and died relatively young--it was too bad.  There is a shot of Bab and the "Bedroom Fish" which was a bronze statue of a fish which creates a fountain with the water spouting from the fish's mouth and very famous.  This fountain was in front of Norton Hall, where they had the operas but neither of us can now remember how Bab happened to pin the name of "Bedroom Fish" on it.  And then we have some shots of a picnic on