[Archie Stewart--home movies] Reel 155

Date1966 – 1967

Can DescriptionsReel 155: Archie Stewart can notes: 1966. 1. End of kids trip to camp with kids. 23 June - 6 July. 2. Geo going to W.M. Camp. 3. ML dressed for riding. 4. Hafers departure 20 July. 5. Kids at Lyons dinner. 6. Swimming at club, last day 29 July. 7. Eric Sloane and Rob 4 Aug. 8. Flowers second bloom, end of August. 9. Take Uncle T. to college 9 Sept. 10. Take Sr. Hafers to camp 14-24 Sept. 11. Autumn foliage trip. 11 - 12 Oct.] Screening notes: Children shooting skeet on lake shore. Children throwing darts, board on tree. Two girls pose beside flagpole. Shot of American flag waving in breeze. Hose watering garden, irrigation ditches. Children hitting [branch?] with sticks. Children cleaning rifles. Children pose with Archie Stewart, driftwood pile in BG. Children with grandmother in boat, moving across lake. Child feeding swan and ducks. Little girl in tutu dancing on porch. Children eating at picnic table. Boy in hobo costume, blackface, eating watermelon. Child waiting for school bus, YMCA. Girl in riding clothes, britches. Man carrying bags down sidewalk. Loading luggage in car trunk. CU on New York state license plate on Buick car. VS of people holding dachshund. Three children pose with waitress outside restaurant. Pan down facade of Newburgh [NY] Savings Bank. Children entering bank, giving envelope to teller, exiting. More of children feeding swans and ducks. Swan chasing children. Children swimming, diving in pool (slow motion). Man poses with painting of barn, with Mary Stewart [Eric Sloane?]. Rob Golding and Mary Stewart water garden. Mary with roses. Teenager with car, loading luggage in truck. VS people walking along lakeshore. Three men getting in canoe. Earl Bonness, guide. Woman painting on dock, CU paintings. Four people stand in clearing, toasting camera. CU frying fish. VS people around picnic table. Launching canoe from shore. Three people sit on log beside lake. Using Jeep to pull in dock. VS vegetable garden. Apple CUs. Melons. People in rain gear riding in boat. Teenagers and parents at Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house, large brick building with columns. Sign for Publick House, 1771. Fall foliage. Mary and Archie Stewart walking through cemetery. VS of motel.

Anecdotal Comments & ReflectionsMary Stewart Hafer notes: June 26-July 6, kids at camp continued. Good scene, kids shooting clay pigeons. Mary Lou and Abby throwing darts. Mary Lou and Abby raising flag. Flag waving. Irrigation in garden. Kids clanging on antique log-drive anchor that hangs form tree and serves as dinner ell. Archie shooting. Archie & kids lined up, posing. Kids with Mrs Fitch, the cook. Newburgh, NY. Feeding ducks and swans. Elizabeth dancing in ballet tutu on back porch of 388 Grand. Rex in hobo costume, eating watermelon. YMCA summer camp bus. Mary Lou in riding habit. Hafers departing helped by Mother and Esther. Mary, Mother and Heidi, the dachshund. Mary Lou holding Heidi. Sauls kids at Lyons Diner with favorite waitress. Sauls kids going to bank to deposit money. Sauls kids feeding ducks and swans. Hostile swan. Kids at Powelton Club pool. Mother swimming with kids. Eric Sloane's home in Connecticut. Eric Sloane (artist and writer), and Rob Golding, a good friend and subject of a Sloane article in Reader's Digeest. Mother with one of Sloane's paintings. Rob and Mother watering plants at 388 Grand. Mother picking roses. Pump for well that was dug on reel 152. Tom Harer loading stuff in car. Unloading skis and stuff at MIT. Pocumcus shore at Camp. Mother, Archie, Earl. Earl loading them into a canoe and pushing off. Mother on dock, painting. Painting shown. LeRoy and Esther Hafer (Fred's parents) at camp Fish cooking in frying pan. Archie seated. Earl demonstrating clog dance for Hafers. Earl pushing off in canoe. Silhouette of Hafers standing on shore. Watching Earl maneuver dock with Jeep. Esther Hafer riding in Jeep. Garden with tall corn and scarecrow. Apples, pumpkin vines. Hafers going downlake in lobster boat. Visiting Tom at MIT. Zeta Beta Tau, Tom's fraternity house. Public House restaurant (a favorite). Mother in small rural cemetery.