The Capricorn rising younger brother was always older in personality. When we, his two chronologically preceding siblings left home at the same time—one graduating high school and the other post community college associate degree—this often alone youngest sibling began a letter exchange with our maternal grandparents, especially grandfather-to-grandson, which spanned his last two years of high school and four-plus years of college. Pages and pages of handwritten letters between the two exist in our records. Ten years later at the time of our grandfather’s death, only one letter and two postcards remain.
Many words. Then silence.
His history degree during those letter years:
American West in 20th Century
Images American Wilderness
American National Government & Politics
Principles of Government & Politics
Public Administration & Policy Making
Early National Period in America
Success Under Stress–Eskimo [sic]
Civil Liberties
Soc/Intellect [sic] History of US
Civil War & Reconstruction
Indians in North America
19th Century European Civilization
History of Africa
History of Western Civilization 1648-1945
Industrialism & Reform in America
Music in Film
Wilderness Field Station Program: Behavioral Ecology of Mammals
Primate Behavior & Ecology
History of Western Civilization 800-1648
Museum Theory & Management
Criminal Justice & American Society
Thursday, January 11, 2024, Gainesville, FL, 6:57 EST:
New Moon 20° 44′ Capricorn conjunct sister’s natal South Node (orb 0° 17′)
Venus 15° 26′ Sagittarius conjunct brother’s natal South Node (orb < 2°)
Capricorn 12° 27′ rising conjunct brother’s Ascendant (orb < 3°)
Final resting locale
Images below: From grandfather’s 1982–1983 Annual Report as elected county Inspector of Mines; and bibliography/map from brother’s spring 1986 paper on “The Rise and Fall of A.I.M.: The American Indian Movement (July 1968–April 1977).