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Found Film Friday: New Year’s Road Trip 1994
…and just like that, we go from “class”…to a little bit crass. Â After weeks of posting historically meaningful post-war photos that were rescued from oblivion, we have a roll of pictures that looks like it was snapped on a three-day college drinkfest that involved a bus, a bar, and what looks like a bunch of…
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Gypsies in India
We regularly join “photowalks” here in Chennai, and were surprised to hear we were going to visit a “gypsy colony.” A bit of googling informed me that the “Roma” people speak a language closely related to Hindi, and are thought to originate somewhere in or near India. Here they are not known as Roma people;…
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It’s Jackfruit Season in India!
-Wait, what’s a jackfruit??? You may know, but we didn’t, before we moved to India.  And if I had ever encountered one on a tree, I certainly wouldn’t know what to do with it!  Take a look at these pictures. Weird, right?  And they’re huge! Jackfruits are one of the “big 3” most auspicious fruits…
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Found Film: Korea, 1946, roll 4 (Homecoming)
This is the fourth and final installment in a series of posts about four rolls of film that were found among items acquired in an estate sale in rural Washington state. To recap what I think I can safely assume from the content in these photos, they appear to have been taken by a U.S.…
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Day at the Beach
Marina Beach, Chennai, India