Indian Head Peak – Anza Borrego State Park – elevation, 3970.
Hiking up what we consider to be a mountain – little did we know what we would go on to do. But when you are at sea level, up is up!
Sitting on top – good hike, great weekend…
Even Clyde was in on this one – not the hike but the camping. 1975, I believe.
We have plenty of birthdays in February as it is and now this!!!
So they mixed it up and poured it in the pan.
Then they kept an eye on it while it baked. And then they decorated it. Janice wondered why it leaned a little to one side but the decorating took some effort.
And it, seemingly, is always a collaboration, a give and take, a joint effort, sharing everything (which can be a real chore at times) and finally an agreement, a meeting of the minds, a working together to achieve a common goal and yet, trying to have “your” way win out. It’s just being a twin.
What better day to go to Disneyland. It wasn’t crowded even though the super bowl hype was still in its infancy. We had a great time even though Chris seems to understand he is missing Namath upsetting the then Baltimore Colts.
Can you believe the game was played January 12!!??!!
like show business.
Chris danced with a troupe when we lived in Upland. The Showstoppers traveled all over Southern California. It was quite a time!!!
Ice Cream, of course!!!
Janice, Gump and Mary in Castlewood.
At 18 – Upland
Birthdays abound in February and Valentine’s Day is right in the middle of the month – how sweet it is, to coin a phrase from the past!
And a line from the Mother’s Diary piqued my interest – June 19, 1947 –
“Sugar rationing is off: and I am happily leafing through recipe books, reading sugar amounts without a qualm.”
But wait – the war ended in 1945!
Well, according to the history internet –
“Sugar was the first food to be rationed, in the spring of 1942. The war with Japan cut off U.S. imports from the Philippines, and cargo ships from Hawaii were diverted to military purposes. The nation’s supply of sugar was quickly reduced by more than a third. To prevent hoarding and skyrocketing prices, the Office of Price Administration issued 123 million copies of War Ration Book One, which contained stamps that could be used to purchase sugar. No sugar could legally be bought without stamps, and sugar rationing would continue until supplies returned to normal in 1947.”
So it took a long time to get sugar back up to speed. Wow.
West Covina, California – February - 1976.
“Okay – here is my idea – I am going to get the camera ready.
You two will sit in front of the two cakes.
We will light the candles.
When I say, “Now,” you blow out your candles – at the exact same time.
It will be great!! Are you ready???
Are you sure?”
NOW!!!!
PERFECT!!!!
Now where are we?? The trail isn’t always where it is supposed to be. We were on the Nine Peaks hike and one of the peaks proved hard to locate.
It is my one year anniversary. Some look at me and wonder – one year???? I am thankful for the job. It has been and continues to be a good experience.
It is also the 50th anniversary of the sit-in movement here in Nashville. The sit-in strategy was very successful here. It started in February and ended in May – only 4 months ( not counting, of course, the previous 184 years). I was still in high school in the spring of 1960 but preparing for college that fall and when I arrived at college, I met several students who had been participating in the sit-ins but had decided to leave and would not go back.
More from the web – brave people, those who sat!
“Although Nashville was considered to be the “Athens of the South” and a few blacks served on the Board of Education, the city council, and the police force, blacks and whites were racially segregated. The pattern of racial exclusiveness prevailed in Nashville’s schools and public facilities, including rest rooms, waiting areas, snack counters, transportation terminals, libraries, theaters, hotels, restaurants, and neighborhoods. Jim Crowism pervaded all aspects of life in Nashville and throughout the South. In 1958, local black leaders founded the Nashville Christian Leadership Conference (NCLC), an affiliate of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. On March 26-28, 1958, NCLC members held a workshop on nonviolent tactics against segregation. Under the leadership of the Reverend Kelly Miller Smith, NCLC president and pastor of First Colored Baptist Church on Eighth Avenue, North, the workshops continued in the church’s basement throughout 1958. Early in 1959, the NCLC began a movement to desegregate downtown Nashville.
During November and December, 1959, the institutionalized policy of segregation was tested at Harvey’s and Cain-Sloan’s department stores. The Reverends Smith and James M. Lawson, Jr., students John Lewis, Diane Nash, James Bevel, Marion Barry, and others bought goods and then attempted to desegregate the lunch counters. Before the end of 1959, other college students were being trained to participate in the protests. The students were from Nashville’s black colleges, including Fisk University, Tennessee A & I State University, Meharry Medical College, and American Baptist Theological Seminary. However, the Greensboro, North Carolina, student demonstrations received the first publicity on February 1, 1960. Twelve days later, on February 13, 1960, Nashville’s black college students launched their first full-scale sit-ins. The students convened at the Arcade on Fifth Avenue, North, and entered Kress’s, Woolworth’s, and McClellan’s stores at approximately 12:40 p.m. They made purchases and then occupied lunch-counter seats. Nearly two hours later, the stores closed their lunch counters, and the students left without incident.
For the next three months the students continued the sit-ins, adding Greyhound and Trailways bus terminals, Grant’s variety store, Walgreen’s drugstore, and Cain-Sloan’s and Harvey’s department stores as targets. The students’ principles of direct nonviolent protest and written rules of conduct became models for later protests in the South. When the students were met with white violence and arrests on February 27, the black community rallied to support them with attorneys and bail money. Some eighty-one students who were found guilty of disorderly conduct on February 29 refused to pay the fines and chose to serve time in jail. Vanderbilt University’s administrators expelled the Reverend James Lawson, a divinity student, for participating in the sit-ins.
On March 3, Mayor Ben West appointed a biracial committee to investigate the issues. The mayor’s committee recommended on April 5 that lunch counters be divided into white and black sections. The NCLC rejected the proposal.
In the pre-dawn morning of April 19, the home of attorney Z. Alexander Looby, legal counsel for the demonstrators, was destroyed by dynamite. In response to the racial violence, blacks marched to Nashville’s City Hall to protest to Mayor Ben West; the city official finally conceded to Fisk student leader Diane Nash that he felt segregation was wrong and that lunch counters should be desegregated. On May 10, 1960, Nashville became the first major city to begin desegregating its public facilities.” Linda T. Wynn
