In October 0f 1963, when I had just started my Junior year in High School and when Dad had been out of teaching for fifteen years, he spent a few months refreshing himself on physics. He bought a comprehensive college physics with calculus text and worked his way through it, spending an hour or two every day (usually early in the morning before he went to work) in the "den" (actually, the fallout shelter) in the basement. This chalkboard was bolted to the concrete blocks on the wall of the shelter that faced the rest of the finished basement, and he'd work out problems from the text on it. One chilly October morning he found that his smart-alek son had embellished the board as above.
Detail of the artwork, featuring a snoozing Izzy Newton and a peeping Galileo inspecting Marie Curie's window.Date: October, 1963
Location: Kings Settlement, NY
By: LH (photo), SH (vandalism)
2 comments:
I do believe this is the first time I've ever seen a drawing (or any art for that matter) by your hand. Not bad. What was Granddad's reaction I wonder.
Your Granddad's reaction was to take a picture of it. Like you, he hardly ever saw me draw anything, either, so it was kind of a "transient phenomenon" moment requiring documentation.
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