Halloween Party at King's Beach Elementary School at North Lake Tahoe. This was before the commercialization of Halloween when kids made up their own costumes. Mickie Barker is the clown on the left. Kathy Mc Intyre is in the middle and my son Pieter is on the right. Pieter & Kathy use to love playing in the big sand dunes at the Moon Dune estate in Tahoe Vista. Mc Intyre's had the Pine Cone Cottages next door to Moon Dune which was one of the early homes built when the native Washos still camped in the meadow summers.
Halloween probably originated with the Celtic festival of Samhain, which celebrated the end of harvest and the beginning of winter. During Samhain, the spirits of the dead, as well as otherworldly sp...
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Photos documenting holidays, special events, and celebrations.
Before the advent of photography, we didn't have a way to see visually what happened. Now, of course, we have over two centuries of visual recollections of how people celebrate the important events i...
Bethel Nadine Holmes of the gold dredging town of Hammonton, Calif. Author of "Peeks Into Sierra Pantries" & "Wood Chips To Game Chips, History of North Lake Tahoe Casinos." Retired from Univ of Nevada Library. Grandaughter of Samuel Jackson Lewis & Martha Love Barker and John Hughes Holmes & Clarissa Angella Laine. Descendant of Wm Braden & Euphemia Jackson, Van Rensselaer Holmes & Elizabeth Ross (dau of Ignatius), Melissa Sheral, Casandra Le Sueur, and James Barker & Martha Patsie Love Emmitt.