February 2, 2017

Captured on Film #101

Captured on Film galleries feature Southeast Missourian photographs taken mainly in the 1960s through the 1990s, before the age of digital photography. Comments or questions about these images should be directed to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.

Published Feb. 24, 1992. About 120 children raced around the track at the Student Recreation Center to raise funds for the Special Olympics. Among them, from left, were Laura Simon, Emily Wilson, Lauren Friskel, Kyle Shepard and Jason Overbaugh. The event raised about $1,200. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Jan. 19, 1992. Justin Bowman, 5, of Cape Girardeau, didn't have a jungle gym to play on, so he made the most of the basketball hoop supports in Capaha Park. (Mark Sterkel ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Feb. 16, 1992. Joy and Gary Gilbert of Cape Girardeau practiced for an upcoming biathlon, which involved running and target shooting. The two had combined their interests into one athletic event, which was a summer version of the Olympic biathlon. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Feb. 25, 1992. The Cape Girardeau riverfront was littered with driftwood as the Mississippi River stage rose to 21.5 feet. The river had risen 8.6 feet in the previous week due to rainfall and snow melt in the Upper Mississippi River and Upper Missouri River basins. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Jan. 10, 1992. A crew with Nebraska Testing Corporation of Omaha, Nebraska, took core samplings along the Illinois side of the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau. Results from the core samplings were used to complete plans for the new Mississippi River bridge. (Mark Sterkel ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Feb. 6, 1992. Beverly Strohmeyer looked at a small silver sculpture entitled "Flori" by James V. Parker, on display at Gallery 100. It was part of Midwest Minis, the first of three juried exhibitions sponsored by the Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Feb. 24, 1992. The traditional toast to the bride and groom, "Yam Seng," meaning "drink for good health," was offered at a performance of a Chinese wedding performed by the Chinese Student Association at Southeast Missouri State University. From left were the groom's parents, played by Jin Kang Gong and Zhi Yu Zhang, Steven How as the groom, Karin Tsang as the bride, with Mary Blue and John Blue as the bride's parents. Guests at the event were served an 11-course meal. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

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Captured on Film galleries feature Southeast Missourian photographs taken mainly in the 1960s through the 1990s, before the age of digital photography. Comments or questions about these images should be directed to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.

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