Kim Berry - 1958 - 1960 in New Hampshire

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Ed graduated from Caltech in June 1957. The following school year he was a part time physics instructor and part-time graduate student as Sac State (CSU Sacramento). About April 1958 he saw a notice on the wall of the physics department about teaching fellowships at Dartmouth College, so he applied. There were only six positions awarded and he was one of the six.

So the summer of 1958, when I was only a few weeks old, he bought the old truck and drove to New Hampshire. His younger brother Jay did not have anything better to do, so what the hell! The truck allowed them to camp out the whole way, kind of like the original hippie truck.

SEE PHOTOS OF THE TRUCK HERE.

My mother and I came by airplane some weeks later. Ed started the teaching job and as a graduate student at Dartmouth in September 1958. The Teaching Fellowship paid his whole way to getting a masters degree plus he learned a lot just being a teaching fellow.

When they arrived the bought a used Fiat. Here's Carole posing in October 1958 near "Old Man in the Mountain":

Here a Google Earth Link to this location

Kim and Carole in the Fiat - October 1958

My first Christmas - 1958

January 4, 1959 - Kim, Carole, and Sambo

January 1959 Kim in walker

February 1959 - Kim leaves a puddle on the floor

March 1959 6am sunrise out the front window

March 1959

July 1959 Carole and Kim swim in Crystal Lake in Enfield, New Hampshire - and I suspect the water was cold.

July 1959 sitting in road

July 1959 walking in road

July 1959 helping repair the Fiat

September 1959 - Kim and Carole on Morgan's Hill, NH

October 1959 - back in the house for another long winter

March 1960. They traded in the Fiat on a new International Travelall - that we would later drive back to California in. This is the car I remember going to Pyramid Lake, Lake Tahoe, grandma's house, and Disneyland in.

Opposite view of the same

In late June 1960 we packed up and returned to Sacramento. My father then had a master's degree from Dartmouth College. (Jay Scott was born in September 1960, so he must have been in the oven here.)

Ed and Kim eating at a stop on the way to Sacramento

Below are some black/white shots

Ed and Sambo - 42 Sachem Village, NH

Here I'm eating New Hampshire dirt

And reading

And listening to the radio

And eating

And ...