Simple Dreams ~ A Musical Memoir (28 page)

MY GRANDFATHER Fred Ronstadt as a young man.

THE CLUB FILARMÓNICO TUCSONENSE in the 1890s. My grandfather was the conductor. He can be seen fourth from the right in the first row that is seated in chairs. He is holding his flute.

MY AUNT LUISA Espinel Ronstadt in the early 1920s.
Lansing Brown

MY PARENTS’ engagement portrait.
Lansing Brown

SITTING IN FRONT of my best friend, the radio.

WATCHING THE RODEO at Pete Martinez’s arena down the road from our house in Tucson. (My sister Suzy was Rodeo Queen that year.)

DRESSED UP to attend a concert at age three with Suzy and Peter.

WITH MURPHY, best friend Dana O’Sullivan, and her pony, Little Paint.

AT AGE SIX riding my pony, Murphy.

DRESSED AS A NAVAJO, riding my Appaloosa mare in the Tucson Rodeo Parade,1956.

IN OUR BACKYARD, age eleven.
Dana O’Sullivan

MY MATERNAL GRANDFATHER Lloyd G. Copeman, with a baby raccoon that he rescued and raised.

EIGHTH GRADE wearing my Catholic school uniform.

AGE SIXTEEN wearing the dress my friend Liisa Wilska and my mother made for me.