{"id":18636,"date":"2021-10-17T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T14:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=18636"},"modified":"2021-10-17T15:03:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T19:03:15","slug":"episode-452-four-rescued-negativessomething-you-will-never-see-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=18636","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 452 FOUR RESCUED NEGATIVES\u2026SOMETHING YOU WILL NEVER SEE AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is a story here.\u00a0 Savour the picture…the details…a man slogging his way to the auction wagon, a wagon of Mennonites almost hidden, a few half ton trucks, odds and ends of farm machines, and strips of ice<\/div>\n
beneath the snow. \u00a0 I am so glad I rescued these four negatives.\u00a0 Classics.<\/div>\n
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EPISODE 452 \u00a0 \u00a0FOUR RESCUED NEGATIVES…SOMETHING YOU WILL NEVER SEE AGAIN<\/div>\n
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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Oct. 17, 2021<\/div>\n
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Just an old strip of 35mmm negatives found among my slides.<\/div>\n
“I may as well get them converted\u00a0to digital among the slides…just<\/div>\n
cost a few dollars.\u00a0 A test strip.\u00a0 I have a whole binder of these negatives taken around 1960's or 1970's just when the race to<\/div>\n
sell old Ontario farms was about to reach fever pitch.”<\/div>\n
“Looks rather bleak.”<\/div>\n
“Suits the black and white format….tells a story…a sad story.”<\/div>\n
“Each time a farm sells there are piles of things up for auction or for<\/div>\n
the scrap yard.”<\/div>\n
“Alan, are you the only person rescuing doomed artifacts?”<\/div>\n
“No, but I may be the most enthusiastic,,,I like to papture\u00a0the<\/div>\n
mood of the auction as well as the treasures.”<\/div>\n
“Treasures?”<\/div>\n
“Art is in the eye of the beholder”<\/div>\n
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This is a belt driven cutting box…takes corn stalks and slics\u00a0them<\/div>\n
into bite sized chunks that can be piled silos as ensilage for winter<\/div>\n
feeding.\u00a0 Ensilage has a smell all its own…a smell that only farmers<\/div>\n
and cattle feel akin to. \u00a0 I rather liked the smell.<\/div>\n
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And here is a 1950's Farmall row crop\u00a0tractor.\u00a0 Triangle shaped wheel<\/div>\n
base…always seemed dangerous to me…roll over possible.\u00a0 And roll<\/div>\n
overs did happen…deadly.\u00a0 Of course you are more interested\u00a0in the scrap pile or maybe the long fenced lane to the back fields.<\/div>\n
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And here a Mennonite family\u00a0arriving with a matched team of black horses. \u00a0 Maybe retired race horses. \u00a0 Why \u00a0do I think that?\u00a0 Because<\/div>\n
their hooves are delicate…moreso\u00a0than a big team of draft horses with<\/div>\n
hair fetlocks. \u00a0 Puts me in mind of Uncle FRank Freeman's team that<\/div>\n
he harvessed up to meet the Gray Coach bus from Toronto just<\/div>\n
to get mom, Eric and I to the farm on winter\u00a0week ends.<\/div>\n
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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
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Question: \u00a0Should I invest a few more dollars and rescue a lot more<\/div>\n
of these black and whitep pictures? \u00a0 Otherwise they will never be seen\u00a0again. \u00a0 Yes..I will take them to Digital Treasures…they do such a<\/div>\n
nice job.<\/div>\n
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Note: \u00a0For the first time in weeks I feel comfortable\u00a0telling my stories thanks to the help of a 16 year old boy…Michael L. and his dad Rob.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a story here.\u00a0 Savour the picture…the details…a man slogging his way to the auction wagon, a wagon of Mennonites almost hidden, a few half ton trucks, odds and ends of farm machines, and strips of ice beneath the snow. \u00a0 I am so glad I rescued these four negatives.\u00a0 Classics. EPISODE 452 \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18642,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18636\/revisions\/18642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}