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Published March 05, 2008 06:49 pm - Robert Lebzelter column for March 9, 2008 Scanned slides do quick job of telling family history A Robert Lebzelter column Star Beacon My big goal for Christmas was to take a truckload of old family slides, scan them into the computer, clean them up and put them neatly onto disc. That was my goal. But what slowed my enthusiasm was our Closet From Hell. I got the idea back in June when I got a new scanner. Most of the slides came from my grandfather, who religiously took photographs from the time my dad and uncle were young well through my childhood. The slides were neatly placed in a case on a high shelf in the closet. All summer, I looked across the walk-in closet to that shelf. It was like that elusive last, golden apple high atop the tree. It was like the Holy Grail. But in between were boxes of old books, Christmas decorations, Halloween items, Easter stuff. I think I found the Ark of the Covenant, after it left that big warehouse in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” Alas, I didn’t even gain access to the slides until right around Christmas. I was able to finish the scanning in February. Now I had seen the slides on Grandpa’s old slide projector, shown on his old but meticulously kept screen. But then the bulb burned out and there the slides sat unwatched for close to another two decades. My goal was to start scanning these slides, some dating to the 1920s, into my computer, making certain they were all going the same direction, that they were color corrected and cropped. The first 50 slides or so were of my grandparents and their relatives, with none of my dad or uncle. Grandpa always wore a tie and his shirt was always buttoned to the top, even when sitting around the house. There were lots of pictures of Grandma dressed in red, wearing different hats. Some were in front of the shower curtain. Many a time Grandpa would want to take pictures of my bothers and I, we were such sweet little darlings. That meant stopping what we were doing, wetting back our hair (we all had hair then) and standing us in front of the shower curtain. So it is funny to see Grandma, years before she was Grandma, standing in front of the shower curtain having her picture taken. 
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