Linn et al-

Unfortunately, we don't seem to have a single photo of any of the song party gatherings. People were having too much fun singing and carrying on to take photos.

There were stories I heard later from Bill Bonyun of someone crawling along the kitchen roof with a whisky bottle in his hand howling at the moon. Someone asked "What's he think he's doing?" And my father's typically dry reply, "Why being inconspicuous." But no photo.

One of the local fisherman taught my father "Johnny Went Down to Hilo" and "Barnacle Bill the Sailor." One of our other neighbors carefully transcribed many of the songs, which was how years later I rediscovered "West Indies Blues."

We do have a few photos of family picnics and other family activities which I may post today as a separate album.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble