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Contributor:  Anne Barton
Catalog No. 21
Length:  12:14
Dates:  1950s, 1960s, 1970s


Keyword Description:
Filmed by Vincent Ardizzoni, Anne Barton, and Anne Marie Schneider. Shows Ardizzoni family in 1950s, 1960s, and 1978, at home in Somerville, Massachusetts, on the beach and boating at the summer cottage on Nantucket Beach, on trips to Washington, D.C., and New York City, at church for first communion, confirmation, and a wedding, and an Easter egg hunt. The NYC footage shows an amusement park at the World's Fair and other points of interest. The 1978 video shows the year's blizzard, including damage to beach cottages as well as snow shoveling and sledding by father and son, followed by spring footage showing father and son painting, and a fly-over NYC's Hudson River, World Trade Center Towers, and Statue of Liberty.