Summer 1983

In the summer of 1983 Patty and I took our usual trip during summer vacation from teaching. During that summer we traveled to Sequoia National Park and King's Canyon National Park and evenutally found our way to Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas before returning home to California.

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our sign that Patty created for the trip	Jenk and Marc Stephenson	Sequoia Tree Patty standing at the bottom
Marc Stephenson Jenk Stephenson	The sawed Sequoia	Marc Stephenson Jenk Stephenson
Patty Stephenson Marc Stephenson King Canyon National Park	Jenk Stephenson Marc Stephenson King Canyon National Park	General Grant Tree King Canyon National Park
Marc William Stephenson	Sequoia National Park	Marc Stephenson Jenk Stephenson
Jenk Stephenson Marc Stephenson	King's River King's River National Park	Jenk Stephenson Marc Stephenson
Patty Stephenson Marc Stephenson King's River National Park the river is very high with water	Marc Stephenson King's River National Park	Jenk Stephenson with backpack - Marc is probably riding in the backpack
Marc Stephenson	Marc Stephenson Jenk Stephenson	Marc Stephenson Jenk Stephenson with the Rabbit car and the camping trailer that my Uncle Kermit made
Marc Stephenson Jenk Stephenson	Marc Stephenson	David Stephenson, my brother Marc Stephenson
Patty Stephenson Brenna Stephenson Marc Stephenson Marc and Brenna are first cousins	Marc Stephenson Brenna Stephenson Cousins	Oklahoma State Sign
Marc Stephenson Jenk Stephenson Visiting my brother, Tom	Patty Stephenson Ponca City, Oklahoma	Marc Stephenson and the man that owned the farm
Old Barn near Ponca City, Oklahoma	Old Barn near Ponca City, Oklahoma	Marc Stephenson Jenk Stephenson
Roosevelt Funeral Caisson	Marc Stephenson Tom Stephenson Marc's Uncle Tom	Marc Stephenson on the kind of tractor that his Dad first learned to plow on
Marc Stephenson on the kind of tractor that his Dad first learned to plow on	Marc Stephenson on the kind of tractor that his Dad first learned to plow on	Dairy Queen It was so hot waiting for Tom's truck to be repaired that we hung out here for most of the day, Hollis, Oklahoma
The garage repairing Tom's truck, not shown, in Hollis, Oklahoma	Jenk Stephenson Marc Stephenson Tom Stephenson Billy the Kid gravsite Fort Sumner, New Mexico	Jenk Stephenson Marc Stephenson Tom Stephenson Billy the Kid gravsite Fort Sumner, New Mexico
Marc Stephenson Sitting in the kind of school desk that I remember using as a kid	Old Sign	Marc Stephenson with miniture horses
Marc Stephenson with miniture horses	Pawnee Bill Ranch near Ponca City, Oklahoma	Long Horn Cattle
Jenk Stephenson Marc Stephenson Kansas border	Patty Stephenson	Marc Stephenson Eisenhower Home
Ellis Island	Kansas Historic Abilene	Jenk Stephenson Marc Stephenson Overland Stage Ride
Jenk Stephenson Marc Stephenson Overland Stage Ride	Old Abilene Town	Lincoln Carriage
Fort Leavenworth	Hotel	My friend, Donald Junlian and his family We met in the 7th grade, about 1959 Overland Park, Kansas
Crossing into Missouri	Harry S. Truman	Truman Home
Truman Home	Gravesite of Harry & Bess Truman	Jenk Stephenson Marc Stephenson Pony Express Office
Jesse James Home	Pony Express Stables	Pony Express
Marc Stephenson Jenk Stephenson Jesse James Home	Arkansas State Line	Marc Stephenson riding in the back seat of the car
Jewel Waldrop Elner Waldrop Marc Stephenson Arkansas	Jenk Stephenson Marc Stephenson Ozark Cultural Center	Our Wheels
Marc Stephenson Jenk Stephenson	Jenk Stephenson Marc Stephenson Patty Stephenson	Congressman Sam Rayburn
On the road Sam Rayburn home, I think	Gary Lunt Farm Gary and I went to college together and were neighbors in college at West Texas A&M University	Patty Stephenson Marc Stephenson Gary Lunt, Texas farmer
Gary Lunt Patty Stephenson Denise Lunt Patty getting ready to drive the tractor	Patty Stephenson, in the tractor cab Gary Lunt Denise Lunt	Patty Stephenson is drivng the tractor Gary is in the cab with her
Gary Lunt's grain farm	Jenk Stephenson Marc Stephenson Patty Stephenson Gary's grain farm	Gary Lunt Marc Stephenson
Denise Lunt Their two children Gary Lunt I knew Denise and Gary when I was in graduate school, even before they married.	The Lunt Family Sunray, Texas	Jewel Stephenson, my mother Brenna Stephenson, my niece Marc Stephenson, my son
Brenna Stephenson Marc Stephenson Cousins	308 Sumac Lubbock, Texas Home while I was a student at Texas Tech	the Sumac House Apricot trees my Dad planted on the right
Brenna Stephenson Marc Stephenson Cousins	Marc Stephenson	Patty Stephenson recovered this old chair
Backup picture of the chair Patty recovered	An old family picture that is all faded now From my grandmother's side of the family - Jones (late 1800s)	Lucille Stephenson Stanley Kermit Stanley my Aunt Lou and Uncle Kermit
David Stephenson, my brother Brenna Stephenson Johnnie Anderson Stephenson	Walter James (Jim) Stephenson, my father Marc Stephenson, my son Jewel Rich Stephenson, my mother	Walter James (Jim) Stephenson, my father Marc Stephenson, my son Jewel Rich Stephenson, my mother
Marc Stephenson Patty Stephenson Jenk Stephenson	Jewel Rich Stephenson, my mother Edna Stephenson McCoy, my aunt Robena McCoy Tooke, my cousin