A great photo of Rick

A letter and photo arrived the other day from Peter Camp, Rick and Wendy’s cousin. The Camps, Aunt Polly and Uncle Nelson, lived in Connecticut where Aunt Polly still resides. Before the family started vacationing in Old Lyme they would go to Cape Cod and rent a cottage for the week on the bay side of the Cape. Ted, Rick and Wendy’s dad, was an avid sailor and had a wooden sailboat that they would use on the water. Uncle Nelson always had a camera around his neck and in this particular camera he used Kodachrome color slide film.

Apparently this particular type of slide film fades very little with time so the picture you are seeing here is of Rick at Cape Cod when he was probably seven or eight years old. I took this picture of the photo with my phone camera. The colors are so brilliant in the original photo Peter sent that I didn’t recognize at first that this wasn’t a professional, current photograph. So thank you, Peter, for sharing this priceless memory. Rick and I will treasure this photo.