"Old spanish script on a microfilmed document recounts the stories of survivors. Dazed and hungry, the castaways staggered into St. Augustine and gave depositions about the night of terror. Here the author (left) confers with National Park Service historian Luis R Arana, an authority on old Spanish. The Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain, preserves the original records."
Dubloons, amongst other treasures, found by beach combing and
Dubloons, amongst other treasures, found by beach combing and
Part of the Kennedy climb collection of images (see lower captions I made.
A family sits by the water.
An old ad for a Ford Thunderbird - 1965 article.
The Mt. Kennedy climb made by Senator Kennedy to pay respects to the late John F. Kennedy.
Canoeing down the Danube.
Men observe a view of the moon projected from a telescope onto the table.
Tents pitched for the trip Senator Kennedy made to the top of Mt. Kennedy with his family's flag to pay respects to the late president John F. Kennedy.
"Silver pieces of eight, called cobs, look like bits of green stone following a 250-year bath in brine. Coin at left shines again after hydrochloric acid dissolved the thin coating formed by the action of salt water on copper, a hardening agent in most silver coins."
"Silver crucifix, encrusted with multicolored shell fragments, may have hung at the end of a rosary."
"Fleeing for their lives, sightseeing nuns scurried across the ash field as Irazú loosed another burst of shattered rock. Immense clouds of smoke and steam gushed from the throat of the tortured giant.
Tourists flocked to Irazú's crater-pocked crown until authorities closed the route to the summit. Today, with the road once again open, visitors find the active crater measures 1,600 feet across -- ten times its former size."
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