The Ciel Show: My Dad, The Gold Watch and Everything

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Sunday, August 31, 2008

My Dad, The Gold Watch and Everything

My dad, Dr Kenneth Franklin, was an astronomer. A radio astronomer, in fact. One of my very earliest memories--I must have been around 3--is of waiting in the car (big old thing with no square corners, an a huge back seat, and lots of grey) while he walked out into a wide grassy field to check his radio antenna. It looked like a telephone wire strung along several shortish poles. My mother stood outside the car watching with some anxiety. Before he went out into the field, they had argued some... Sign in to see full entry.

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