Lehner, Philip N., 1964-1965
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P. Lehner 1904 Dec. 2 - continued / Grand Canyon of the Pacific" "It's not quite as big as our canyon; I like ours better" "It's a little hazy; are you going to take a picture" "Yes, but I think I'll use my FLASH." AND I'LL BE DAMNED IF SHE DIDN'T! She took out a little flash bulb the size on a pencil eraser, stuck it in her Brownie Starflash, aimed and fired; I watched the bulb and had a hard time seeing it go off, but she intended to light up the whole canyon with it. We returned to our mangled car and continued toward Kalalau lookout; along the way I had to convince an elderly woman and her husband that she was shooting her movie camera at the right lens opening; through mud, rain and beautiful countryside we continued to Kalalau lookout and then back and around the other side of the island; we stopped to take pictures at Hanalei Valley; there was a horse near the road which I used as a foreground - Standen came up and took a close up of the horse's head; I suggested he go to the other end and get a picture of a horse's posterior - there he was about 3 ft. away from the south end of a north facing horse, focusing his camera while cars went by with amazed faces pressed to the windshield; earlier in the morning I had climbed onto the top of our car to (over)