Appian Way, Italy

Bee in Flight

Bird of Paradise

Cave, about halfway between Rome & Naples. Potential Archaeological site, c. 750,000 BCE

CJ Hiding

CJ Retired

CJ Retired (2)

CJ as A Kitten

Fort Bragg, California

Whittier and Lorena Streets, East Los Angeles. Note Airplane lights next to Moon.

CJ napping

Computer Cat

Karen in the Snow

The old city gate in the ancient city wall of Venafro, Isernia, Italy. Note the absence of sidewalks in old, ancient, inner Venafro. Founded c 750 BC by Homeric Greeks

Fountain of Four Pipes, Venafro, Italy

Dave and friends. From left to right, Dave's stepfather, Lee Hug, Leon Austen, Richard Morgan, Don Jensen, Dave's brother Sam Martin, Dave. c 1949

Giovanni Coia, Dave's Grandfather 1905

Filomena Integlia, Dave's Grandmother 1904

Charles Coia, Illinois State Representative from Chicago, 1919, brother of Dave's grandfather Giovanni

Mariano Coia, AKA Tony Martin, Dave's Father, born in Sesto Campano, Italy, November 7 1895. Came to America in 1913

Sand Dunes, Death Valley, CA c 1984

Lee Hug, and his uncle Sam, celebrating the end of Prohibition, in East LA, 1933

Lake Isabella in the Kern River Valley, forty miles East of Bakersfield, in the mountains in central California where Dave lives

Hollenbeck Park, East Los Angeles

Dave and his grandmother Maud Bethel Crist (Nanny,) in East Los Angeles, 1950. Maud, Rosetta, and Clara were sisters

Rosetta Bethel Baker, about 1900. San Francisco, CA

Maud's Sister, Clara Bethel Groves. c 1895. St. Louis, Mo

Maud's son Harold Bacon. Los Angeles, CA, c 1895

Grace Crist, and Maud Bethel Crist with Grace's 1929 Model A. Ed Carr of Titanic fame borrowed the car and returned it with the dents. c 1933

David Hug and his mother Grace, c 1965

Dave and daughter, c 1965

Unknown person on the left, Grace Crist on the right. Santa Barbara, CA, c 1917. Who is the unknown girl?

Dave, 2001

Grace and Maud, about 1918

Julia Ortega and Grace Crist, about 1932

Maud & Grace about 1920

The Big Three: Grace, Karen, Dave's daughter, and Larry, Dave's brother. c 1965

Grace and Lee Hug, c 1965

Dave and trailer, ready for the road, in front of Dave's house in Bodfish, CA 1997

Eddie Diaz AKA Lonie, Dave in the foreground at Huntington Beach c 1953

Wineglasses, c 1974

A very suntanned 17 year-old Dave and 16 year-old friend at Huntington Beach, CA, c 1951-'52

Well, I was swinging on a rope and dropping into the Kern River. Then I landed in a shallow spot. Good thing the corn was already planted. 1992

Friend of the family Joe Guzzo. Like an uncle to Dave. Born 4/18/1906 in NY, died 9/17/1956 in CA

Dave likes to Garden

Dave just had his 1940 Plymouth painted the original color, dark beige

Dave the East Los Angeles "street kid." Age 15

Pop's friend George Pritchett, Mariano Coia AKA Tony Martin, Tony's brother-in-law, and Lee Hug (Pop). At Tony's house on Foothill Blvd., Tujunga, CA, 1938

Dave, age 13, and his younger brother Larry. c 1947

Dave's father Mariano Coia AKA Tony Martin came to New York from Naples on the SS Germania in October, 1913

Maud Bethel Crist, AKA Nanny in 1950 shortly before her death. Dave took this picture, and he recognizes her expression of unconditional love for him. She was Dave's maternal grandmother. Her father's surname was Bethel, her mother's Stith.

Dave at age 14

Avalon Bay, Catalina Island, 1982