Katharine Orwin, Somerset, Kentucky, Spring 1939

They were driving through the farmland of Illinois when Paul looked over at Katharine and said: “Why don’t we go to Mexico?” Katharine raised her eyebrow and Paul finished his sentence with: “on our honeymoon.” That was how my grandfather proposed, three months after meeting my grandmother on a blind date at the Kentucky Derby. They eloped to Mexico City, she wore a white hat with red feathers in it, and he wore two-tone shoes. It was a whirlwind romantic – legend in our family and the tale of its inception often repeated, so it came as a surprise when seventy years later she mentioned another man, Jack Goodyear, to me for the first time.

2008
Cibachrome mounted on Dibond
40X40 inches (edition of 3 + 2AP’s)
30X30 inches (edition of 5 + 3AP’s)
9X9 inches (edition of 25 + 5AP’s)