My Last Photo

This is the last photo that I took of Jerry. Denise and I were having lunch with Jerry and Maggie at Linden Ponds in Hingham, MA. At this point, March 28th, Jerry was under full care, and had a lot of trouble with his memory, but was very sociable and retained his sense of humor.

Jerry and Warren

Jerry and Warren McCulloch experimenting with carbonization.

The "bug" in Bradford

From the left: Ruthie, Jonathan, Jerry, Joan holding one David, Teddy holding Rory, the other David. Maggie might be the one behind the camera. Bradford, NH.

(Thanks to Rory Lettvin for the photo.)

Young guns

David (me), Teddy, Jerry, Rory and Jonathan in Bradford NH in the 60s.

(Thanks to Rory Lettvin for the photo.)

Nothing good ...

... can come from mixing intellectuals and guns. Jerry waits gleefully for his turn as brother Teddy seems ready to solo on a new instrument in preparation for the 1812 Overture. The photo was taken at Teddy's house in Bradford NH.

(Thanks to Rory Lettvin for the photo.)

Jerry and Maggie

Here they come! 

There they go!

Jerry as Archimedes

In an old clawfoot bathtub with a reinforced plywood board across it. Occasionally the books on his bathtub desk would be replaced by a large, gray, Underwood manual typewriter.

Jerry with Walter Pitts and unnamed collaborator

See more of this collaborator in the background of this blog.

Thank God it's Faraday!

Sorry for my tendency to pun. It is my most durable inheritance from Jerry, who in this picture is sitting in a "Faraday cage," a metal mesh enclosure that protected his equipment and experiments from external electrical and electronic "noise."

Jerry at rest