family legends

 What are some of yours?

One of ours involves the 1959 epic, Ben Hur.

You know the story.  It involves the life of the fictional Judah Ben Hur, a Prince of the Jews in 1st century Judea.

On February 15, 1960, my father, who was then a teacher, took his students to see the movie.  My very pregnant mother accompanied him.



My parents joked that the baby should be born in the theater, and if it were a boy they'd name him Ben Hur.

Of course, it didn't happen.  I was born 3 days later.

But the movie was magnificent, wasn't it?

Here's the chariot race:





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