~photo/pnn/1955/1955_a/readme.txt 8/5/08

Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides, undated.
        [The first shots use slide mounts that Kodak used 5/52 to 8/55;
	the last few shots, from a different roll of film, use mounts
	that Kodak used 8/55 to 5/57,
        according to http://www.historicphotoarchive.com/f2/kodachrome.html.
	This dates these Cairo slides precisely as 1955.]
Digitized 8/3/08 with Nikon Coolscan 5000 scanner:
	5782 x 3946, TIFF output, 16 bit depth.
From PNN Cavalcade tray #5, label "Biloxi - NewDRL (?) / Cairo", no date.

Date: Feb. or March 1955.
Location: Cairo, IL after auto accident.

Accident scenario:
PNN was driving, SAN/ERN in front seat, DN in back seat,
southbbund toward Biloxi MS on vacation.  After passing Cairo,
in Kentucky, our Buick was hit bit a northbound car with a
driver who fell asleep.  PNN hit the steering wheel and broke a couple ribs,
SAN went through the windshield (pre-seatbelts!) and received stitches
on the chin and upper left temple (and a black eye), ERN braced herself
for the oncoming collision and dislocated her hip, and DN skinned his toe.
SAN and ERN were hospitalized, DN returned to school in Minneapolis.

Mostly in Cairo hospital, including SAN's and ERN's roommates.
p01, p03: SAN's roommate.
p02: SAN.
p04: SAN, ERN.
p05: SAN, nurse, ERN.
p06: doctor, SAN, ERN.
p07: ERN's roommate.
p08: SAN, ERN.
p09: SAN.
p10, p11: nurses with SAN & ERN.
p12, p13: SAN outside Cairo motel.
p14: new car, exactly like the one totalled in accident, outside Cairo motel.