May 26, 2016

Captured on Film #65

Captured on Film galleries feature Southeast Missourian photographs taken mainly in the 1960s through the 1990s, before the age of digital photography. Comments or questions about these images should be directed to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.

Published June 11, 1991. Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority commissioners toured the site of a new railroad spur. From left were commissioners Peter Kinder, Morty Potashnick, Mysie Keene, Fred Surman, executive director Allan Maki and commissioner Irvin Garms. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published July 30, 1991. Julianne Perry appeared to get tangled up with her baton as she followed the directions of her instructor, Kristy Lossing with the Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department, during a baton-twirling lesson at Capaha Park. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published July 11, 1991. Southeast Missouri State University Provost Les Cochran answered questions by university faculty during a discussion of the merit pay plan approved by the regents. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published June 24, 1991. Kegan Orr, left, and her brother, Augustus Orr of Benton, Missouri, enjoyed the swings with their mother, Laura Orr. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published July 5, 1991. DeAnn Lorberg, left, of Jackson watched the ball go out during a mud volleyball game, all part of the Fourth of July celebration at Jackson. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published June 20, 1991. Judy Gau demonstrated how movement of the Earth affects various layers of rock during a lesson of peanut-butter-and-jelly geology at the Summer Science Camp at Franklin School. Looking on were students Sam Poehlman and Adam Kerr. (Mark Sterkel ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published July 22, 1991. Bill Payne of Willoughby Hills, Ohio, predicted that, when he finished his cross-country ride, he would remember Cape Girardeau as the place he lost his hat on the Mississippi River bridge. Here, Payne backed up traffic as he crossed the bridge into Cape Girardeau. Payne, who began his ride on June 14, was riding the horse from Ohio to Malibu, California, to present it as a gift to his daughter. He expected to finish his ride in November. (Southeast Missourian archive)

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Captured on Film galleries feature Southeast Missourian photographs taken mainly in the 1960s through the 1990s, before the age of digital photography. Comments or questions about these images should be directed to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.

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