Saved Images 2001–04 From time to time on my home page, I've promoted an article using a picture that didn't appear in the article itself.  Then, the following month, I created a new home page, and that picture was no longer accessible.  It's still in cyberspace, but you can't access it unless you know its Web address. After innumerous requests, I've brought those old images back from oblivion.  Here are the first four years of them.  Click here for images that were featured more recently. Note:  In most cases, clicking on a picture will take you to the related article. MAY 2001       Taken sometime in the 1940s, this picture shows my mother (1913-82) among the flowers. Mother grew her own flowers, too.  In Kentucky, she saw these orange blooms along on the roadside.  We dug up a plant and brought it home to Ohio.  We never knew the plant's name; we just called it "the Kentucky weed."   AUGUST 2001 OCTOBER 2001       My grandfather, Harry Gladstone Buckingham (1885-1955).    DECEMBER 2001   The dove below is from the Christmas card I sent in 1985. MAY-JUNE 2002 Above:  that's me peeking through the tulips in early May, 1951.   At the right:  an Italianate Victorian house in Delaware, Ohio.   JULY 2002 The bridge down at Morgan Street, part of an illustrated song. AUGUST 2002 Peg Duncan and Paul Sturm at work in the outer office of my college radio station, WOBC, circa 1967. Peg's job as popular music librarian involved typing up index cards listing the records in our collection.  Paul was the business manager. NOVEMBER 2002 The door where I used to enter the Wright Physics Laboratory, now part of the newly dedicated Oberlin College Science Center. DECEMBER 2002 Forty years ago in Cambridge, Ohio, I photographed my grandmother Emma Buckingham.  In the foreground, surrounded by Christmas cards, was a "tree" made from toothpicks stuck into styrofoam balls and sprayed with "snow."  My mother had me make one like it for our own home (below). Click here for a color version; scroll down for notes.   JANUARY 2003   Fictional newscaster Ted Baxter had a "system" for betting on football.   SUMMER 2003   I've come up with a graphical way of charting the progress of the races in baseball divisions. AUGUST 2003   Mike Sherwood was part of a three-month corporate video project that took us from Miami Beach to Maui in 1985.   Sometimes my old photos, like the badly faded one on the left, need to be digitally restored.  My first attempt in 2001 resulted in the middle version.  Now I've taught myself some new techniques — in this case, adjusting the contrast of the red channel — to obtain the improved version on the right.  It's amazing that all this color information lies hidden in the faded original. NOVEMBER 2003   My new Subaru poses at a shopping center a mile from my home. DECEMBER 2003 The Christmas card I sent in 1965, dramatizing the shepherds' view of Bethlehem.   JANUARY 2004   My home page got a new headshot this month.  Older portraits date to 1994 (left) and to 1961 (right). APRIL 2004 That's me beside my father's Oldsmobile Rocket 88 in Newark, Ohio, in 1952. MAY 2004 With the help of the Korean tiger mascot named Hidori, I take a look back at the first Summer Olympics in NBC's current run, the 1988 games in Seoul.  This event marked my first trip outside North America and my first encounter with a new generation of character generators. JULY 2004 Should an organization based on faith also be a democracy that votes on which articles of faith to accept? A thousand delegates assembled in Pittsburgh to decide the policies of the United Methodist Church, at least for the next four years.  During this General Conference, I was on hand to provide the graphics for the big screens in the hall.   OCTOBER 2004 I started my career as a play-by-play announcer for Oberlin College basketball on December 1, 1965, with a road game at Adrian College in Michigan (program at right).  Eventually I became station director of WOBC. On a completely different topic, in 1988 I dreamed up a one-handed 15-character computer keyboard (below left).  Now I've discovered that such a keyboard, the FrogPad, is actually being sold. NOVEMBER 2004 For those of you interested in conspiracy theories — or geography — we pose this question, which involves sites connected with three Presidents: Were my movements in 1963 merely coincidences? DECEMBER 2004 Colorized from a photo in the 1965 Hi-O-Hi yearbook In 1965, Oberlin College students gather in the twilight at the Memorial Arch across the street from Peters Hall to debate a pressing issue of the day.   Click here for images that were featured in 2005 or later.