When Ali Swanson guest blogged yesterday, she sent me a couple of images of the old Magasins Reunis building in Hanoi. For the life of me, I couldn't successfully embed the link in the text.So here's one of those images.It was quite a beauty even in black and white … [Read more...]
Guest blog post about HaNoi, 1992
I'm so excited to share with you this guest blog post from the phenomenal Ali Swanson--world traveler, health-care provider extraordinaire, and dear friend. Here she writes about when she lived in Vietnam, long before the US and Vietnam normalized relations. Here's Ali:During … [Read more...]
Picnic at Shinrin Koen, 1964
I came across this image early on in my slide scanning project, but I've often thought back to it 500 slides later.My mom took this photo around Halloween 1964 at her school picnic at Shinrin Koen (which translates into forest park). She'd been teaching at the Nagoya … [Read more...]
One hundred years of the ROC
Today on Facebook my college friend Marissa posted a video of Taipei's New Year's firework extravaganza. It was a proud moment for Taiwan as this year marks the 100th anniversary of the Republic of China.I can only image the festivities on this year's double ten, the official … [Read more...]
New Year’s Day in Miyajima, 1965
My mom took this photo in Miyajima, an island off the coast of Hiroshima. She traveled there on New Year's Day, 1965.Unlike many Asian countries, Japan celebrates the new year on January 1 of the Gregorian calendar (this practice started in the 1870s when Japan stopped … [Read more...]
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