"Off for a Family Drive"

A roller coaster ride, a work in progress…

“Off for a Family Drive”

My father never said much, yet he always had a lot on his mind. 

My mother, eyes so bright, would explain what my father was thinking. Growing up I knew all about the war and the depression and outdoor toilets and burning corn cobs to stay warm during those Iowa farm winters. My mother told me she fell in love with my father in high school thinking he was tall and handsome , plus he had a car. I think that combo works about as well as anything. 

Maryanna became a one room schoolhouse teacher the minute she graduated from high school and her love Alan went off to war. By hand love letters are treasures today. 

I too loved my dad because he had a car. Sometimes I got to ride up front between mom and dad, with Pat, Gary, and Craig in the the back. On Sundays after church, the most glorious reward was my father would often take us off for a family drive to the countryside.  Please daddy please.

Alan and Maryanna’s lives were largely formed out of often harsh realities . They made the best of things always, stayed in love to the end, missioned us to live life as we best saw fit. 

So I took them at their word. I was well supplied with grist for the mill.

- DAH

Book details: 

Publication date: July 2020

First edition /signed

Size: 9.5" x 7" 

204 pages

Softcover

Sewn binding

Paper: un-coated art paper, Munken Lynx 150g 

Photographs: David Alan Harvey

Printed in Italy with Vegetal Inks by Grafiche Antiga

Published by BurnBooks

Print details:

Santiago, Chile, 1987.

Archival Pigment Print

Signed: en verso via pencil by David Alan Harvey

Size: 6"x9" image on 8.5" x 11" paper

Prints made with care by my exhibition printer Michael Courvoisier