This isn’t an exhaustive set of all the possible photos for the book. For one, pictures of 616 East Lincoln Avenue are missing, as well as those of some of my family members. I’ll also need to visit Mount Vernon to get some photos of the city from the time period of the book. And I’ll probably end up scanning a couple of weird pics from the Class of ’87 yearbook to add to the collection. But what’s here so far is fairly comprehensive.
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- My Mother’s Associate’s Degree Photo – May 12, 1997
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- Alternative timelines, show art from SyFy’s 12 Monkeys, March 2016. (http://syfy.com).
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- PhD Graduation Group Photo – May 18, 1997. A great photo, except for the one (my mother) who was missing – note my mother-in-law gesturing to her. (Angelia N. Levy).
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- PhD Graduation – Me & Angelia. My future wife, the photo documenter of the day.
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- PhD Graduation – Thackeray Hall. My mood after finding out that my mother wanted to leave without seeing me receive my degree at my departmental ceremony.
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- Me and Darren, 1975. One of the few surviving photos from my childhood, and only one of a few from a professional photographer.
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- 48 Adams Street, Mount Vernon, New York. Taken in November 2006, the house we lived in until August of ’74. We lived on the second floor and shared a kitchen with another tenant on that floor.
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- Adams Street Playground – November 2006. This plaque wasn’t there when I lived on this block. One of my first memories is getting my butt torn up over leaving the front yard at 48 Adams and going down the block to play in the park with the bigger kids. Happened in ’73 or ’74 (I was three or four years old).
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- 425 South 6th Avenue – November 2006. We moved into the second floor of this house after leaving 48 Adams Street in August ’74. It was great for a while, before my mother and father divorced just two years later. We moved to 616 East Lincoln Avenue in April ’77.
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- 425 South 6th – Back Yard. My father spent a lot of time out here, playing around with tools and recovering from many a hangover.
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- Cecil Parker Elementary School (formerly Nathan Hale ES), Mount Vernon, NY, November 23, 2006. (Donald Earl Collins).
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- Me & Darren at gate to Nathan Hale ES playground, Mount Vernon, NY, February 1975. [At 425 South Sixth, we lived just two doors down from Nathan Hale and its playground area/parking lot.] (My Mom).
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- Standard Mount Vernon Sidewalk. When I went on my many walks between Mount Vernon and the Bronx, looking down at the sidewalk was usually a good way to figure out where I was. These blue-gray slate sidewalks were always there and often uneven and cracked.
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- William H. Holmes Elementary School – November 2006. After moving from South Side Mount Vernon in April ’77, this became my school. I went there from 3rd through 6th grade, ’77-’81.
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- Holmes School – Rear Classrooms. Holmes was completed in ’54, an example of modern school architecture at its best (at least at the time). Grades 4-6 were on the second floor, and the kindergarten classes met in the wing on the right side of the picture.
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- Back area behind William H. Holmes ES (where my two fights with Starling occurred), Mount Vernon, NY, November 22, 2006 (Donald Earl Collins).
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- Pennington-Grimes Elementary School – November 2006. Pennington-Grimes was the school where about half of my eventual Humanities Program classmates would come from when I started middle school in ’81.
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- A.B. Davis Middle School – November 2006. Built in ’26, it used to be Mount Vernon High School before Black migration, the Brown decision and ending some discriminatory ability grouping practices forced the school board to build a new high school after ’54. Famous folk like rock ‘n roll legend Dick Clark went to school here.
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- A.B. Davis Middle School, front wall, Mount Vernon, NY, November 22, 2006. (Donald Earl Collins).
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- A.B. Davis – Old Building and New Wing. In the ’70s, a new wing was added to Davis to accommodate the influx of additions students. But with the creation of the Humanities Program, Humanities-level students would spend about 90 percent of their time in classes in this wing, completely separate from gen pop.
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- Mount Vernon High School – November 2006. Picture of gymnasium wing. For at least 20 years, the “M” or the “V” was crooked. They must’ve fixed this somewhere between ’02 and ’06.
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- MVHS – Central Front Entrance. Completed in ’62, MVHS was constructed in what many call a California style architecture, with blue tiles and a courtyard to boot. The building sits on 20 or so acres of land in the far North Side of Mount Vernon. Of course, MVHS’ address is 100 California Road.
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- MVHS Photo ID, November 1985. Note the poor and pissed-off look I had on this date.
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- Pasadena Park Neighborhood. Across the street from MVHS is Pasadena Park, continuing with the California motif.
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- (Former or Current) Tibetan Monk House. I was hoping get a pic of a monk on my visit in November 2006. Oh well. This house served Tibetan monks during my high school years (at least), and sits about half a block from MVHS on California Road.
Notes from a Boy @ The Window 