Freddy and Lorna Vent, September 1962

Item — Box: PCA 303

Identifier: ASL-P303-35

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Freddy, son of Bobby and Mary. Lorna, daughter of Little Sammy and Big Sophie. Young man (boy) on the right is Lorna's nephew Percy (I think?) Wholecheese, son of Peter and Julia Wholecheese. I believe this young man was murdered in Huslia in July 1986 by Little Edwin Henry. If not him, then his brother who is in the group with Big Sophie and Little Sammy. (Our daughter Mary Keller was in Huslia at the time, staying with Wilson and Eleanor Sam, while doing some work as a Mellon fellow.)

Dates

September 1962

Biographical / Historical

Slides #15 – 38 are of family groups around Huslia in September of 1962. The young people who were the first group of students to go to high school were getting ready to leave town and we wanted pictures of them with their families so everyone could have a copy of the photos. This was a very traumatic as well as exciting time for the families. Life would never be the same for any of them and they knew it. It was a time of mourning for many parents. I have arranged the families alphabetically as the most useful way to organize them.