Category: Panamerica1954
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One Day in Cambridge
In 1953 two first-year Harvard Business School students, Francis E Baker (HC ‘51, HBS ‘55) and Gérard Fabry (HBS ‘55), were walking back from Cambridge when they decided, as Gerry recalls, that they should drive to Rio de Janeiro. That was the decision that launched a 16,000 mile “car trip” on the Pan American…
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The Very Rough Road to Rio — Hagerty Drivers Club Article
This month the article for the Hagerty Drivers Club magazine has been printed and published online: https://www.hagerty.com/media/great-reads/the-rough-road-to-rio-an-mg-adventure-for-the-ages Great work by Stefan Lombard, the Editor at Large of Hagerty Drivers Club magazine. He really took an initial article I had and a set of press clippings, and brought in so much more. Credit to Kim Dyson…
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ICP PhotoSLAM
On April 3, I presented the Pan America 1954 project in an ICP PhotoSLAM at ICP, the International Center of Photography. A PhotoSLAM is a format created by ICP faculty member Idris Soloman. It is a mix between The Moth radio hour and a poetry slam, with photography. Five or six photographers apply to present…
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Launching on Substack
As funny as it is to say, I recognized a while ago that I’m an old school new media marketer. I love blogs and websites. I like long form content and photographs. I like CRM systems and automatic marketing that gives people what they ask for with timing and personalization that can turn spam into…
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Enjoying Archival Investigations
One of the interesting challenges I’m finding with this collection is determining where a given photo was taken. Needless to say location tagging didn’t happen on 35mm slides and metal frames don’t provide for written notes. Unfortunately we don’t have any slideshow write-ups and the order of the slides is also suspect after 70 years.…
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We’re Going to Miss the Newspapers
It is amazing to start in a project like this and have the power of a tool like Newspapers.com. With over a billion articles scanned and indexed, the days of digging up microfiche rolls and running them in the machines at the university library are well and truly gone. It is all about tuning your…
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Working on Boston to Rio
I’ve started working on organizing and researching the trip my father did in 1954 with Gérard Fabry. The short version of the story is that instead of getting a summer internship from business school, they decided to drive from Cambridge to Rio de Janeiro in a 1953 MG TD. Sponsors, press passes, letters of introduction…