Yearbook covers of American schools in the Saudi Aramco American compounds of the Saudi Arabian Eastern Province.
Saudi Yearbooks
Posts By: Claire Lucido
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Age of Adolescence
“The world of the adolescent is totally interlaced within itself and incapable of freeing itself…it whirls, rolls, and engulfs what it is allowed to engulf.”
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Folk Freaks
“You don’t have to be an accomplished musician, you could play for three years and listen to records and become fairly good.
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Iseult Gonne
Iseult Gonne (6 August 1894 – 22 March 1954) was conceived in the mausoleum of her late brother in an attempt by her parents to reincarnate their dead, still adored infant son.
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Aramco Brats in the 60s and 70s
Aramco Brats, the expatriate children of employees of Saudi Aramco oil company, (which was estimated in 2005 to be the world’s most valuable company) are a “third culture” group — think military brats, missionary kids — defined by their bi-cultural identity formed by living a not quite suburban American lifestyle in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, a province whose lands are more than half the Rub’ al Khali (Empty Quarter) desert — sand and wind.
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Appalachian Teen Clogging
Appalachian teen competitive clogging troupe, Blue Ridge Mountain Dancers, clogging, flat-footing, foot-stomping, buck dancing, or jigging it in someone’s living room, 1964.
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Magdalene Laundries
The Magdalene Laundries were convents for “fallen women” all over Britain, Europe, America, Canada and Australia — the first of which was founded in 1765 in Dublin, Ireland.