My Sense of Place Part Two

I was born May 23rd 1964.  Black and white photography was not a novelty then, it was the way it was because it was significantly less expensive than color.  It wasnt until the 70's that color became an affordable option for everyday photography. 

These pictures were taken at Christmas ( a holiday) with all my moms family present.  I was about 1 1/2 years old so 1966??? The interesting thing is the details in the photos like to color linolium flooring, the old clothes and shoes, the puppy slinky and the rockum sockum robots.  In the bottem picture, if you look just behind me you will see that big brown thing behind me.  I think it was the only heat sourse in the house.   Notice the fire place is covered or closed up.   Oh and the hair styles definatly date the photos. 

This is the first snow I ever remember in my life.  We lived so close to the Atlantic coast that it only snows like this about once a decade.  This was in the 70's.  On the left, me and the family dog a German Shepard pup named Ceazar.  This is the back yard, notice all we had was pine tree. The right is my mother playing in the front yard, just across the road (that you can not see) beyond the mail box, notice again a line of thick woods full of Pine trees. 

This is a picture of my daughter in 1985.  She would be flattered to know I added her to my blog but I am posting the picture to show the TV in the background.  HAHAHA, Notice that is still has dials to change the channel.  I think that big box on top of it was the first cable boxes.  Yes I was born about 15 years before cable became a big deal for everyone to have.  That is when MTV really was MUSIC television.  



The top photo is of the intercoastal waterway on the sound side of Emerald Isle NC.  It was the back yard from our 32 ft Camper.  I loved it there.  The bottem photo is me roughing it in the Kitchen of our camper.  It had a bathroom, a bedroom, a color TV with cable and the dock was right out the doors to the rear of the camper.  I sure miss that camper.   I think the helicopter flying in the air of the top photo is Pedro, a search and rescue copter from Cherry Point Marine corp base just about 30 miles down the road. 

My now ex husband and I both worked at Sprint at this time and we made great money!   This was the time of excess in my life and for all that we had, I wanted to pack it all up to live in this camper that was smaller than 1/2 of the  2 car garage at our 2000 square foot house.  When I think about the stress we lived to maintain that lifestyle and the fact that although we could afford the big house and the waterfront camper on the Island.  We rarely had time to enjoy it.  What a waste!

My sense of Place Part One

 None of my grand parents are still alive so I can not interview them so I am going to blog about my 46 years of life and what I do know about me and my own sense of place.  I did not write this article,  I found it on line and read it learning a few things that I myself did not know about where I came from.  So I am starting my story with it.

MCAS Cherry Point History

It is said that the name “Cherry Point” comes from a post office established in the area for the Blades Lumber people some years ago. The post office was closed in 1935. The original “Point” was on the south side of the Neuse River east of Hancock Creek, and the word “Cherry” came from cherry trees that at one time grew on the point.
Congress authorized Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point on
July 9, 1941, with an initial appropriation of $14,990,000 for construction and clearing of an 8,000-acre tract of swamps,
farms and timberland.
Actual clearing of the site began on Aug. 6, 1941, with extensive drainage and malaria control work. Construction began in November just 17 days before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Cherry Point’s first commanding officer, Lt. Col. Thomas J. Cushman, landed the first plane, a J2F Grumman amphibious biplane, at the air station on March 18, 1942. The air station was commissioned on May 20, 1942, as Cunningham Field, in honor
of the Marine Corp’s first aviator, Lt. Alfred A. Cunningham. In August 1942, one year after land clearing began, the first
Marines arrived.
Cherry Point is one of the world’s largest Marine Corps air stations and one of the best all-weather jet bases in the world. The size of the air station has increased form the original 8,000 acres to more than 13,000 acres at the primary complex, with nearly 16,000 additional acres in associated support locations. In fact, Cherry Point’s runway system is so large that the air station serves as an alternate emergency-landing site for space shuttle launches out of Cape Canaveral, Fla.

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