You hear me? Yeah.
We came to Milwaukee last night, and we're staying with Dad and Mona.
And Mona is cooking breakfast.
She has this new robe on that's made out of bath towels that's real interesting.
You sew together like bath towels and then it's functional because it's warm and absorbs water.
It's a good shower robe.
And the living room is nice because of all the plants here.
If you keep them in the sun, they've just been brought in from outside, so they'll start dying, but possibly they'll make it.
The, um...
It's a very formal living room, but softened up with the plants and the piano.
One really distinctive thing about the house is the abundance of lamps.
There are lamps everywhere.
The room I slept in had five, and they were all turned on when I went in.
I think that they like that they read a lot, and it's good to have a lamp everywhere you might want to sit down and read.
Mona is very friendly.
Very, um...
And so is Bill.
We are in the car wash.
Scared the heck out of little kids when they come into something like this.
Now it feels like the car is moving, but it really isn't.
The relative motion of things.
Now doesn't it feel like the car is moving? Maybe we'll take another one.
Okay, I'll take another one.
This time I'll get a little bit farther back.
Get the piano.
Look this way now.
I'm taking the picture.
Wait, I'll hold the flowers.
Oh, you hold them.
It looks like a real posed picture.
Smile.
Smile.
I'm putting it inside the piano so we get a better sound.
Don't you think Billy is using a lot of footage, Chris? Here, take a picture of my lamp.
I guess it doesn't look that...
Go up on it.
You know, really take a good picture.
Wait a minute.
I'll wait until the back light.
Okay, ready? Yeah.
Take a picture of us coming up to our house too when we get a white Christmas.
We've got a white Christmas.
We don't have to pray for a white Christmas.
We already got one.
Oh, that's the morning paper.
No night paper, Sam.
Must be no night paper.
What are you doing, Billy? See the door go up.
See the door go up.
See the door go up.
So nice.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
This is the Stamets house.
Well, stop when you get into the dark garage with all the junk up.
You can't get anything out of it.
Stop when you get into the garage.
Now through the forest primeval of Door County, Fish Creek, Wisconsin, as we go through this little jungle trail of good standing pine and cedar trees, and you'll hear the birds singing above.
And the forest lawn is coated with pine needles and tree and leaves, and there are many squirrels dancing around on the ground and on the tree stumps.
And as we journey through this little forest with Mona and Billy and Patrick, we are reminded of the meaning of nature and the finiteness of growing things in our lives so that we should become more reverent in our religious beliefs of what life is all about.
Going on, we are facing now the White Gall Inn where they have fish boils, which we're going to enjoy tomorrow night.
I think everybody should join me.
My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He is trampling on the mint leaves where the grapes of wrath are stored.
The drought that marches peels into the rotor and ball the different veins in swishlacur, of which nature engendered is the fluor.
I doubt that it's 15.
It says 15.
See, it's 25 back there.
Do not pass.
See that one coming up there? We're heading for Butler now to see Dr.
Fitzhill.
Goodbye, Billy.
Bye.
We had a nice time, Billy.
The clouds we have are north and east now.
We'll be breaking up.
Home, sweet home, America, my own America, my home.
We are in 1983 in Billy's apartment looking at home movies.
He showed us movies of Lully's Wedding, which were very good.
It was very well done.
Then one of the highlights were movies taken of Pope John Paul's visit to Chicago, which I'll turn over to Mona to comment upon.
I felt that this home movie of the Holy Father's visit to Chicago was very well done, probably your best.
And also that it was especially discerning of you to be able to pick the more precious jewels to photograph.
Good morning.
We haven't even got dressed yet.
Billy is here.
This is Mona over here.
This is me right here with my Milwaukee jammie son.
It's one day before the first day of spring.
Look at the snow.
Now, let us look out there on the patio and see the snow.
I want to make a correction.
It's 1983 instead of 1982, March 20th.
And this is what I call my nostalgic bar in the basement of our home in Greendale.
Take a look around, Bill.
You can see all this stuff.
That's my dad's steamboat, the Greater Pittsburgh.
You didn't get that.
And this is my dad up here, and that's Alaska, and that's different things.
There's pictures of Billy, and that's the Revico sailboat which went down in Bermuda, the Bermuda Triangle.
And there's some pictures of John over there, and over here's all my diplomas, and that's my fraternity picture over there.
And it's really a mess down here, but I enjoy it.
Don't we, Billy? Oh yeah, and here's a picture of Billy here.
Oh, here he is, drinking that huge beer.
That's Billy.
Thanksgiving.
1983.
1983.
We are just coming into the Tom Hinton Farm.
Tom knows we're here.
How does he know? He knows from the time you turn off over there.
He feels the vibrations in the earth, just like everybody else does, and looks close to the earth.
He knows where the deer are, he knows where a rabbit is, he knows everything about his land.
Well, he knows where everything is on his farm.
That's a good farmer for you.
He knows the condition of everything.
He knows when to go out in the field and when to stay afoot.
Shake the beans now.
You've been in the ball for the winter, haven't you, Tom? I have.
We are on the Fleming Farm with Tom Hinton the day after Thanksgiving, and also with the, what's the dog's name? Queenie.
Queenie.
And we tried to do some hunting, but there's too much snow on the ground.
Tom? Too much snow and no pheasants.
Okay, this has been real nice that you've been here to visit with us, and I hope that you will be back soon.
And I'm sorry that you didn't get any more birds, and sorry you got all our mud.
What are you going to say, Jane? It was nice meeting you.
I don't know.
It was real nice that you guys could come visit us.
Dad, we don't play basketball.
Come back and see us real soon again.
Adios, amigos.
Nice meeting you.
Dad? Where's Walt? We'll be back up next summer to see you.
Oh yeah, do that.
I don't know what I'm saying.
You said you'd be back up to see you.
Chicago, Chicago.
Oh, I love that town.
Well, thank you, Billy, and I was so glad you got your first outing of hunting.
Unfortunately, you didn't shoot the bird, but you shot at it.
Good shooting there, man.
Thank you.
Good shooting there, man.
Good shooting there, man.
What are you doing? Here we go.
Christmas day, and by the way, we're south of the way to where Shavogan is.
I have to go quite a distance to work off all this dinner that I got that Luna gave us, including the dessert.
And how many miles have I gone so far? Well, I've gone 10 miles an hour here.
Gave a paper on fracture mechanics, which led to my getting some consulting work later on.
And Billy, I think Billy was there, and of course Mona was with me.
And we stayed at the DeRale apartments, free of charge on William Case.
Now it's the third, and we had a very good time.
And at the moment, I'm in my temporary new office at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, where I replaced one of the professors here who recently passed away of a heart attack.
Chicago, once again, at the McCormick Place, and this is the machine tool show for 1978.
And here I am, William Stamets, also known as William K.
Stamets, Jr., at McCormick Place at the show.
I remember coming to this show in the 1940s with my father, William K.
Stamets, who was a machine tool dealer in Pittsburgh, in Cleveland, and at one time was president of this association, the American Machine Tool Distributors Association.
I believe that was in 1932 or 33.
My son, William K.
Stamets III, is here taking these pictures.
Now this is the first toy that I have received since I was a little boy.
And I'm really pleased with this.
It's a steam engine, if you see, for a steam power plant.
I hope to make 1 ,000 megawatts for this thing, if I find the secret.
Oh boy, look at all these good parts.
I wonder if it was made in Japan.
Well, here's what it's going to look like.
We have to erect this, Billy.
It's supposed to look like this.
I had one of these when I was a kid.
It was a little different from this, but it's basically the same idea.
Well, thank you Paul and Cruz for giving this to me.
I don't know whether Patty or Mother's included in this or not, but I guess she can have the boiler.
I'll let her be in charge of the boiler, and I'll be in charge of the power generation here.
I don't know, a whole lot of parts.
I can see there's going to be a problem.
It's going to take a while to erect this thing.
This is the new boiler and power plant at Greendale, Wisconsin, called the Mona 1.
This is the initial ceremony of lighting it off for its shakedown start -up operation.
Make sure everything is in working order.
Let me have that flashlight.
I've got to check my firebox here.
Hot dog, here we go.
Never mind, we can't waste steam right now.
Wow! Now she's really going.
Now it's pretty nice looking at all this.
...December 28, 1979, revisiting Seattle and the Space Needle, which was a leftover from the World's Fair of 1962.
And most of us were here at that time.
John and Billy were quite little then.
Oh, it's going cold.
It's cold.
Which way? It was right in there.
And this whole thing was to our machinery company.
Oh, I missed the camera.
Have you got it? Oh, I missed the camera.
