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way,” says Goodine. “I happened to be in a real estate office one day and noticed an old black and white photo of the carriage road from Mount Washington. The realtor said he found the photo in an old bam of a property he was selling, and that the woman who owned the property had some old photographic plates she was trying to sell.
“The great fun was negotiating with this colorful character—Carol Lynch—who owned the plates. We met several times in that dusty cellar with Ms. Lynch, with her chain-smoking all the while. In the end, we settled on a price, and Ms. Lynch parted with the plates happily. I still visit with Ms. Lynch when we go back to Jackson each summer,” says Goodine.
“I realized I had a wonderful historic record of the area at the turn of the 19th to 20th century. Here were all these plates in this 15-drawer oak flat file cabinet all numbered, titled, catalogued and stashed away for 100 years. We began researching and cataloguing the plates immediately. It has taken us three years to get to this point.”
Thankfully, Washington resident Charlie Tbmpkins, an accomplished photographer in his own right, who studied under Ansel Adams, has all the cortiputer scanning equipment necessary to document the plates, and has been a tremendous help in this project.
See RAAC, Page B8
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