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Friday, August 6, 2021

Arnold and Newlin: Whittier 1972

In the summer of 1972 the family drove out West to visit Hazel in Whittier. We enjoyed her citrus trees, which had some ripe fruit on it. Hazel squeezed fresh orange juice for us every day.

Hazel was always very prim and proper, so it is amusing to see her in her housecoat in these photos.

Allan, Eric and Joel picking oranges

Hazel, Andrew, Allan, Eric, and Joel picking oranges

Allan, Andrew, Eric, Joel, and Hazel picking oranges

Hazel showing Eric some California poppies in her yard

Hazel and Eric reaching for an orange in the tree

Hazel and Eric with a freshly picked orange

Arnie grilling out in Hazel's back yard

Hazel's house in Whittier

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Thursday, August 5, 2021

Arnold and Newlin: St. Augustine 1971

Hazel brought our cousins Larry and Kathy (Leonard and Lucille's two younger children) to visit us in Florida. (Their older brother Walter had accompanied Laura to visit us the previous year in Europe, so now it was their turn.) Arnie took Hazel, Newlin, Larry, Kathy, Andrew, and Eric to St. Augustine to see one of the the nation's oldest cities and the Castillo de San Marcos.

Kathy, Eric, Hazel, Walter, and Andrew at the Water Mill in the Colonial Quarter

oldest wooden school house, in the Colonial Quarter

Hazel, Eric, Andrew, Kathy, and Larry with a horse-drawn carriage on Menendez Avenue, St. Augustine

Eric, Walter, Hazel, Kathy, Andrew, and Newlin near the Castillo de San Marcos

Newlin and Hazel in the ravelin of Castillo de San Marcos

Eric, Kathy, Hazel, Andrew, Newlin, and Walter in the ravelin of the Castillo

Newlin, Andrew, Hazel, and Walter near the front gate

Walter photographing the interior of a cannon

Kathy and Eric on the Castillo

Andrew on a cannon

Eric climbing a cannon

Eric on a cannon

At Littlewood Elementary School, it was the tradition to send the fourth graders on a field trip to St. Augustine. We all — Allan, Joel Andrew, and Eric — road the yellow Alachua County school buses with packed lunch to visit the Castillo, usually with Newlin as a chaperone

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Saturday, July 31, 2021

Arnold and Newlin: Skansen 1970

Skansen is an open-air museum of Swedish historical culture on Djurgården island in Stockholm that we visited frequently during our stay in 1969–1970. These photos are from May and June 1970.

Andrew and Eric playing on Djurgården

Newlin, Andrew, Eric, and Hazel at Skansen

Andrew, Allan, Joel, Newlin, Eric, and Hazel outside the Solliden Restaurant, Skansen

Hazel, Allan, Joel, Eric, and Newlin lunching at the Solliden Restaurant, Skansen

Joel, Allan, Newlin, and Eric at the Terrassen Café, Skansen

Andrew, Eric, Newlin, Newlin, Joel, Allan on Djurgården

Allan, Joel and Newlin at Skansen

Allan and Joel at Skansen

Newlin, Eric, Andrew, and Hazel Newlin at Skansen

Also on Djurgården was the Nordiska Museet (the Nordic Museum):

Eric and Andrew with 16th Century throne, Nordiska Museet

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Friday, July 30, 2021

Arnold and Newlin: Uppsala, June 1970

The first photos are from early June or even May, when Hazel was still visiting us. We have our spring jackets on.

Hazel pushing Eric on the swingset in front of our apartment building

Hazel and Eric at play

Hazel and Eric

Joel and Andrew with neighbors in the yard of our apartment building

Eric on the swingset of our apartment building yard

Newlin and Eric with neighborhood friends

Arnie could not sleep in the morning after the sun rose, so he frequently arose at 3:00a in our part of Sweden, where the sun dipped below the horizon for just a few hours in the summer. Restless, he would go for long walks in the city and take photos of the empty town at the early hours:

Uppsala Cathedral (from 1435) viewed from Castle Hill

Uppsala Cathedral viewed from our rooftop

another rooftop view of Uppsala Cathedral

Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River viewed from our rooftop

Uppsala Cathedral viewed from our apartment building rooftop

Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River

Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River with our apartment building (3 Götgatan); we lived on the fourth floor

Our apartment building at 3 Götgatan, Uppsala

Joel and Andrew biking in Uppsala

The University of Uppsala Main Building (with Erik Gustaf Geijer Statue)

This is one of the bells in the Cathedral. It may be the one called Thornan, taken from Toruń, Poland, as war booty in 1703 by Swedish forces of King Carl XII (Charles XII) during the Great Northern War (1700–1721).

Thornan Bell, Uppsala Cathedral

Uppsala University's Main Building viewed from a Cathedral tower

The River Fyris (Fyrisån); out apartment building is one of the white buildings in the upper left, near the bridge

Uppsala Castle (from the mid Sixteenth Century, rebuilt after a 1702 fire)

Eric on a cannon at Uppsala Castle

Uppsala Castle

Gunilla bell tower (Queen Consort Gunilla donated Gunilla Bell to the castle chapel in 1588. In 1702 the original tower was destroyed by fire, so the bell was recast in 1759 and moved to this wooden bell tower)