Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mike: If one of the important purposes of photography is to produce the emotive effect of recollection, you got me - bingo. I was a little boy during WWII yet I recall vividly how much a father figure FDR was to most Americans. When he died in April 1945 there was a national hole-in-the-stomach. His funeral train from Washington to Hyde Park came up the New Haven RR line from New York City past New Rochelle where we lived, then reversed to go back south to the Mott Haven yards in the Bronx, thence to the New York Central tracks up the Hudson to Hyde Park. My parents got my brother and me up before dawn to drive down to the New Rochelle train station to be there when the train came. Almost everyone on the platform was crying, many waving handkerchiefs or flags. Your photos brought all that back. My thanks. Seth Rosner LaK 9 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html