[Archie Stewart--home movies] Reel 161

Date1968 – 1969

Can DescriptionsAmateur footage. Archie Stewart can notes in quotes: 'Starts 1968. Maryah's visit 21-24 June. John Wallace's Eagle Scout Award. Camp 18 Aug - 1 Sept. Visit Col. RNG, 26 Aug. Ann's Fallbrook, 29 Aug - 6 Sept. Mary-ah's 1666 House-on-the-hill. 7 Sept. Geo's operation 16 Sept. Fall foliage. Trip & visit to Davenport's orchard, 17-18 Oct. Fall camping trip. 1 Nov - 17 Nov.'

Viewing NotesNHF cataloguer's notes for Reel 161, 3/26/99 JB: WS of boys wrestling on the grass [slow motion?]. Woman [Ann] and dachshund dog watch. MS of rose bushes. MS of young girl in dirndl dress posing beside flowered bushes, peonies. MS John Hafer in Eagle Scout uniform, grandmother and sister beside. Other scouts and chairs in BG. Family seated in chairs on lawn: African American woman Esther Gunther, Archie and Abby. WS of ceremony, troop leader congratulating boy and pointing out merit badges. Award ceremony at Stewart AFB. WS high of two girls running across lawn to swimming pool. Slow motion shots of boys and girls diving. Motel swimming pool en route to camp in Maine. At camp: John Hafer leaning against tree, displays large fish. WS of canoe with motor launching from dock and then moving across lake carrying John, Abby and guide Earl Bonness. Tree swing sequence: Earl Bonness climbs ladder while Mary and children hold. Suspends swing, children take turns. Members of Stewart family pose with very frail looking Rob Golding, age 94, Robbinston, Maine. Last visit with Rob. He shows Boston Post cane for town's oldest living citizen. Group admires flower garden. Earl Bonness builds campfire as kids watch. VS of family eating watermelon, wooded setting; Tom, Earl and Archie eating watermelon. Archie Stewart with red bandana on head poses with daughter. LS of kids doing calisthenics on rocky beach. From behind, family walking on shore, skipping rocks. Elizabeth and Abby hold up fish catch for camera. Sauls' Siamese cat and dachshund dog play fighting on grass. Slow motion shots of kids diving into pool. VS of [motel?], family eating on stone veranda, chainlink fence around pool. Girl swimming with kickboard, another girl on small raft using paddle. WS of horses in paddock. MS of young girl walking beside horse. MS of three girls leaning through fence to pet horse. MS of woman beside car, covered Conestoga type wagon in BG. VS of family eating fast food on stone porch. Siamese cats plays with two dachshunds [brief]. Sign: The house on the hill 1666 [Mary Stewart Hafer: this is house at 137 North Road, Bedford, Mass., and house date is more likely 1781] Pan down from chimney with painted number 1666, to red Cape Cod style house, woman walking down path. MS of Rex Sauls lying on couch on porch at 388 Grand Street, Newburgh, recovering from serious leg injury. Profile MS of young boy standing on lawn mugging for camera, pan down to rolled up pants and large scar on leg. CU of round scar the size of baseball on calf. Traveling through Vermont: fall foliage, cannon, church. WS of two older people [Mary Stewart and man] standing in front of apple trees, red fruit. Archie Stewart shakes man's hand. VS of fall foliage against blue sky, moving shots along country lanes. TS of red maple tree beside tall white church spire. WS of foliage in small town, from above. TS of Howard Johnson restaurant with foliage in BG. Highway signs from moving car: Route 91 North White River Junction, VT and exit for Brattleboro Route 91 South. WS of highway, moving shots and pans of mountains, stream, fall colors. Tilt shot from bridge to river below. Cactus plants on window sill, WS and MCU at 388 Grand Street. Archie Stewart washing car. Fred Hafer helping Archie and Tommy Lockhead load cars for fall hunting trip to camp. Men loading car, folding blanket. Smoke in trees [dark]. At camp, The Thoroughfare. Man walking in woods away from cabin. Earl Bonness digging hole beside log cabin. Pan shot of fresh snow fall in woods. Shot through window of snow, heavy laden branches, lake in BG. Boat pulling away from snow covered dock. Jeep traveling through snowscape, windshield covered with frost. Archie Stewart playing on tree swing. Tracking shot of Earl Bonness pushing Studebaker wheelbarrow filled with wood. Three men load into motorized canoe with fishing gear. WS of men loading dead deer onto sled, towing behind Jeep.

Anecdotal Comments & ReflectionsMary Stewart Hafer notes: Springtime 1968 Mary Stewart Hafer visiting Newburgh from Bedford. Roses in bloom. Abby by rhododendrons in front of 388 Grand Street. John Hafer getting Eagle Scout award at Stewart AFB. Abby, Esther Gunther and Archie and Mother in attendance. Archie's grand kids at motel swimming pool en route to Camp in Miane. At Camp. John with big fish. Earl, John and Abby going out in canoe. I'm there while Early is putting up cross-bar for swing. Elizabeth and other kids swinging. In Robbinston, Maine, a last visit with Rob Golding, now 94. Me, Rob, Earl. Me, Rob, Archie Rob showing us the Boston Pop newspapers silver-headed [gold] cane which is still being transferred in small New England towns to the oldest living citizen. Tom, Earl and Archie eating watermelon. Mother in big sun hat, Archie in bandana. Elizabeth and Abby with fish. Fallbrook, CA. Sauls mini-dachshunds playing with "thai," their Siamese cat. Anne and kids in pool Ann and Mary Lou with "Choo Choo," Ann's horse. Kids on back porch with Archie. Cat and dachshunds playing. Bedford, MA. My house at 137 North Road with erroneous signs saying 1666. Actual date probably 1781. Rex Sauls on back porch at 388 Newburgh, recovering from serious leg injury. Traveling through Vermont. Fall foliage. Cannon> Church and foliage. Road sign. Queechee Gorge (?). Cactus garden by kitchen window at 388 Grand Street. Fred Hafer helping Archie and Tommy Lockhead load cars for fall hunting trip to Camp. Camp with snow. Jeep driving through snow in woods. Archie on kids' new swing. Archie brings in firewood in old Studebaker wheebarrow. Hunters in canoe. Jeep pulling deer carcass on sled.