Callie Budd Cooper of Cincinnati wears 1880s finery that doubtless was made in the home: woolen top with salvaged, non-matching buttons, gathered bustle skirt. Families black and white of a century-plus ago sought out photographic studios as far away as Baltimore and Washington.

The Bronze Star for valor came to Richard E. Hopkins,Jr., in Vietnam in 1967. Pinned down in the jungle by enemy fire, his battalion given up for dead, he gathered up ammunition and took it to strengthen a supporting force which then relieved his unit. Eleven years later, after extensive treatment at a Veterans' Hospital in Washington, the 1961 Sherwood graduate died, possibly a victim of agent orange.