Pilgrimage to Iowa!

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Photograph Description

This is Ambrose Chapel. I think that was were Dad went, if I remember correctly. Anyway, it is a pretty cool looking entryway.

Ah, my brothers! This is obviously a re-creation of the famous Abbey Road photo of the Beatles. While my brothers are neither famous or talented, I like to think of them as insects, so the allusion still works.

This is a photo of my brothers in the cathedral that my parents got married in, way back in '49. The caretakers let us wander around and take pictures, and gave us alot of it's history.

Mike, Jim, Tom and Jesus standing in front of the old grade school. When Mike and Jim were enrolled, Jesus had just graduated.

Ah, the happy memories of childhood. It is a well known fact that smells bring back memories sharper that any other sense, however if Mike points that out, it is a genuine opportunity for ridicule. Why? I guess because with my brothers, any chance is a good chance to ridicule!

This is the chapel in which Mom and Dad got married. It was pretty dark in there, so the pic is a bit fuzzy.

Here is the childhood home on Kirkwood Street. Kirkwood was a pretty little street with a real good feel to it, unlike most of the rest of Davenport (it's gone kinda downhill since the old days).

Here are my brothers sitting in front of the house on Kirkwood, remembering what the view was like 40 years ago. The people who own it now let us wander around through it and hang out for awhile.

Mike spent his senior year of high school here in Davenport at Central High. In addition to "cruising the ones" reliving Friday nights, he pointed out where there used to be cornfields (no doubt reliving Saturday nights as well).

Photograph	Description
	This is Ambrose Chapel. I think that was were Dad went, if I remember correctly. Anyway, it is a pretty cool looking entryway.
	Ah, my brothers! This is obviously a re-creation of the famous Abbey Road photo of the Beatles. While my brothers are neither famous or talented, I like to think of them as insects, so the allusion still works.
	This is a photo of my brothers in the cathedral that my parents got married in, way back in '49. The caretakers let us wander around and take pictures, and gave us alot of it's history.
	Mike, Jim, Tom and Jesus standing in front of the old grade school. When Mike and Jim were enrolled, Jesus had just graduated.
	Ah, the happy memories of childhood. It is a well known fact that smells bring back memories sharper that any other sense, however if Mike points that out, it is a genuine opportunity for ridicule. Why? I guess because with my brothers, any chance is a good chance to ridicule!
	This is the chapel in which Mom and Dad got married. It was pretty dark in there, so the pic is a bit fuzzy.
	Here is the childhood home on Kirkwood Street. Kirkwood was a pretty little street with a real good feel to it, unlike most of the rest of Davenport (it's gone kinda downhill since the old days).
	Here are my brothers sitting in front of the house on Kirkwood, remembering what the view was like 40 years ago. The people who own it now let us wander around through it and hang out for awhile.
	Mike spent his senior year of high school here in Davenport at Central High. In addition to "cruising the ones" reliving Friday nights, he pointed out where there used to be cornfields (no doubt reliving Saturday nights as well).

Hope you like the pictures.