We Choose To Go To The Moon...

Thanks to NASA and Life Magazine for the photo

NASA, as well as the rest of America, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing today. Starting with President Kennedy's challenge in 1961, forward through the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, and on to July 20th, 1969, with Apollo 11 and the lunar landing.

Historic Pictures Restored

Video courtesy NASA.gov

If you haven't been to the NASA.gov site lately, they've spent a lot of time restoring video from Apollo 11, including the one above. What was once grainy, blurry TV video is now available in High Definition.

Old Pictures

My Mom found a collection of old photographs while cleaning out her house in Anniston. The one above is of Harry Prince (my Grandaddy and Mom's father) in front of his store in Beulah, Alabama, from sometime in the mid-1940s. That's my Grandaddy in the fedora, standing next to the boat motor and talking to a customer. My great-aunt (his sister) is the lady by the well on the right. No one knows for sure who the lady is on the balcony, or the person behind the column downstairs.

More pictures to come, just as soon as I can get them on the scanner!