This Web site contains many of my family's, and my, pictures collected over
my lifetime. I scanned many of these from the original 35mm slides or
prints my father took before and during my lifetime and those I took before
the advent of digital cameras. Many, perhaps most, of these were taken
in India and Nepal between 1940 and 2000. Some are of intervening
years spent in the US or traveling to and from the US and South Asia.
Some, of course, are of family events (e.g., my daughter's wedding), and
some were taken by other members of my immediate and extended families in
the US or during their many travels.
So, why India & Nepal? The short story is that my father,
Henry Ankeny
Lacy, was born and grew up as a 4tth generation missionary kid in
Fuzhou, China and
returned to China in 1944-45 with the Office of Strategic Services.
My mother, Elizabeth Pickett Lacy, was born and grew up as a third
generation missionary kid in India. They met when they were students
at Whittier College in California and married there in 1940.
With China now closed they shortly found themselves in India as Methodist missionaries and by 1947 had
three children -- Ruth, Jessie, and me. My two brothers (Doug and
Brent) were born in
Detroit while we were on furlough in the early 50s, and we returned to India in 1953. The five of
us children attended Woodstock School
in north India (Mussoorie), where my mother and her siblings schooled, while my parents worked in
Moradabad and
Ghaziabad, U.P. I, in
turn, found myself in
Nepal with the
Peace Corps immediately after college
and ended up working there on and off for nine years. North Korea
is on the list because I worked there with CARE and the Word Food Program in
1998 and Indonesia because I had an extended vacation in Bali and Sulawesi
in early 2009.
I have several hundred of my father's slides yet to convert
to digital format, and will add those as I slowly work my way through those
boxes. If you move your mouse over the pictures above, or the subject
areas on the left, you'll find links to image collections from various
periods of my life. (I'm still working on some of these pages...)
Enjoy!
Note: These pages render best if your browser window is
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This page was
last updated on
02/28/2011 |