Father’s Day – Juneteenth

Last year Junteenth became a federal holiday. This brings back the issues that existed before the Civil War and after.

This should v=never happen again, not that it ever should have. In the 1950s I knew older black men who were in their 70s, and were most likely the sons of slaves. That is so difficult to imagine.

On a happier note, today is Father’s Day, a day celebrating men who are good fathers. Somehow, this Arlo and Janis cartoon captured both sentiments.

Here I am with my father back in the early 1950s.

Here we are some 45 years later.

Here’s my grandfather Michał Kiełb, who died before I was born.

Here I am at the Detroit Zoo in 1952 with my grandfather, Michele Bellotti and great-grandfather, Davide Di Ftancesco.

Happy Father’s Day to all of the great fathers that I know.

More tomorrow…