Dirk, Father and I, outside our 'converted latrine' in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where father went attended college. Student housing was at an old Military Base and the building we lived in had been a latrine. Being brick, it was better constructed than the old abandoned wooden barracks that were also available.

Mother built the fireplace that you can see in the picture below. She mixed the mortar in a pie tin.

My sister, Patricia Ann Zinn Dicker lives in Little Rock, Ark. now.

I 'grew up' in Wyoming, in a 36 foot long Spartan 'trailer'. We lived in Chyenne from the time I was about 5 until I was in my teens, when we moved to texas.

During the summers, we would vacation in the mountains, often spending a couple of weeks fishing and prospecting for uranium.
We found Saratoga Wyoming to be a pleasant, small town. My parents bought a cabin there after they retired.
Grandpop Zinn when I must have been about 13.

We would sometimes visit my mother's parents, in Missouri.
Grandfather Robert R. Wright was and avid stamp collector, mason, and a friend of Harry Truman. After Grandfather died, we presented one of his books, a large dictionary, to President Truman for the Truman Library. My mother has a collection of correspondance between Truman and Grandfather.

Here is a picture of SFWZ, MBWW, RRZ, RRW, my sister, pregnant and Milton Warren Klein, the first of three children by her first husband, Buzz Klein. The baby she is about to have at this time, Michael, dies at the age of 2 1/2, after open heart surgury to repair congenital heart defects.

We moved to Wichita Falls, Texas when I was in my early teens, and my asthma got much worse.
here you see us looking for burried treasure somewhere in texas, during a dust storm.
Father on the back patio, the house was on the corner of Amherst and Maplewood. While visiting the Wrights, my grandparents in Missouri
By the time I was 16, my asthma was very bad. I had been hospitalized several times with pneumonia. As a last resort, I was sent to the National Jewish Hospital in Denver Colorado, where I spent 22 months. When I left for the hospital, I was 6'2" and weighed 115 lbs.

While in the hospital, I 'finally' got my amateur radio license. I had been interested in electronics and radio since an early age. I was allowed to set up an amateur radio station in my hospital room and spent many hours talking to people around the world, even playing chess over the radio.
Here you can see me and mother during a 'winter' visit that my parents made to see me at the hospital.

while vacationing, perhaps in Yellowstone

Chill Wills(singer and movie star), at Red Rock. He was a relative of a family friend and I remember sitting on his knee.