Three ladies wearing hats standing next to a Fleming Lumber truck festooned with bunting for Fourth of July Parade, 1919. The woman at the far left is Blanche Tippet. Small boy in truck cab, pretending to drive. His left arm is bandaged.

From left, Bob McDougall and Buster Beck, standing in front of the Beck house on Water Street in Red Cliff. Bob was a life-long friend of the Beck brothers. His father's 1937 Lincoln Zephyr Coupe features frequently in Bud Beck's writings. [Photo taken August 31, 1987] "Many of the kids from other parts of town came there also so we knew a lot of them but weren't really close friends with them. Our closest friends were Ray Tippett, Fred Moore,...