[Clayton P. Hodgkin--home movies] Reel 10, Accession 2491

Date1951 – 1952

AbstractForest Hodgkin playing with a duck while the family dogs Sparky and Penny roll in the grass and circle a car with a cat on the running board respectively. Forest siting on a tractor, including sitting in a man’s lap as he drives the tractor. Children playing football in a yard. Forest and Brian Hodgkin painting a tractor tire to use as a flower bed. A Memorial Day Parade in Auburn, ME, including marching bands, marchers in uniform, people on horseback, a military jeep and tank, floats and tractors. Forest and Brian painting a tractor tire being used as a flower bed. People baling hay, including Forest rolling a bale of hay into place for the loader, a truck with a loader attached scooping up the bales of hay and workers loading the bales onto a hay elevator. Boys playing in the sand and Georgette Tardif sunbathing on the beach at Tripp Lake. Forest, Brian, Douglas and Laura Hodgkin on the shore at Range Pond, including Forest and Brian playing with a beach ball and Laura and Douglas reading comics. Forest with a St. Bernard. Brian playing in the water with other boys at a YMCA camp. Forest on a horse. The Hodgkin and Meade families at Harold Meade’s camp in Highland Lake, ME, including a picnic, several children in a boat and Russell Meade swimming. Forest lying under a wagon. Brian walking through gladioli in a field and posing in a small, wooden fort. Douglas and Brian on the roof of their garage. Neighbor Mary Stewart and another woman moving a ladder. Forest and Clayton and Forest Hodgkin posing with rifles before walking away with Penny and Sparky to go hunting. Forest gathering sap from trees. Forest riding a toy bulldozer and playing fetch with Penny. Forest, Brian and Penny with baby Clyde Hodgkin. Notes on can: “#10” Donor Notes: All names and the majority of the locations come from the donor’s notes. Please refer to them for further information.

Creator

• Clayton Hodgkin

• Clayton Hodgkin