Those were grand years, the 1950’s. I thought they would never end, as the song goes. But they did and as near as I can see they have not been repeated. The innocence, sense of adventure, opportunities, simplicity, thrift, tight friendships of those years are difficult to replicate today. This picture for instance, was taken on one of our winter camping trips with the 38th Rover Scout troop led by Ed Hisson (right) where we tramped into a huge log cabin built by a group of older WW2 veterans deep in the Canadian Boreal wilderness north of Parry Sound. They shared it with us for some reason I cannot fathom…perhaps just the Rover Scout bonds. That’s Big Red Stevenson in the foreground, one of my lifetimes friends and me in the background. Our coats come from the War Surplus stores of which there were many in the 1950s.
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38th Rover Crew… 1956 : CATAWBA IS CHEAP WINE: TED IS DEAD
CATAWBA IS CHEAP WINE: TED IS DEAD(38TH ROVER CREW, WINTER 1956)ALAN SKEOCHMARCH 2018 -
High up on a Swiss Mountain at the SUMMER PASTURE
KEVIN took these pictures a few years ago when he and Gabriela had the super energy required to reach the SWISS SUMMER PASTURE.
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Who says Dogs cannot smile
This is our old coonhound Tara…GRINNING…SO GLAD TO SEE US
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DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES
WE did not belong to a fraternity at U. of T. but we went to this fondly remembered fraternity party one night. Eric, Marjorie and I. No pocket money for beer. just enough for one cigar as you can see. Then we hit a bonanza in the dark.
“A half bottle of red wine, here…”“Take a swig.”“finish it off before the owner comes back”“What are these lumps?”“CIGARETTE BUTTS? CIGAR BUTTS!!The bottle had been used as an ashtray. We did not notice until we got some distance down in the bottle.
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OCT, 7, 1989…FREEDOM CAME AND NEAR DEATH: ANDREW IN SOUTH PACIFIC
FREEDOM AND NEAR DEATH: ANDREW IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC,BEGAN OCT. 7, 1989alan skeochmarch 2018Parents have to let go at some point. If they don’t want to let go then their kids will take off anyway. That is our experience.About the time the Berlin Wall came down, both Andrew and Kevin took off. Left the nest to explore the wider world. I think it was October 7, 1989…the Berlin Wall came down a month later…both boys just took off in different directions. We didn’t know why their rite of passage occurred on the same day but it did.
