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Everett Kuntz was a small town Iowa boy (that is, Ridgeway, Iowa - population 300 or so in the 1940s, and is about the same population to this day). His nickname was "Scoop," because he was rarely seen without his camera, a 35-millimeter Argus AF, which he bought for $12.50 in 1939.
His images of his hometown, his family and friends, were taken from 1939 to 1942. He went overseas during World War II, went to college, got married, and brought up a family of his own; forgetting the rolls of film he had stored away.
It wasn't until sixty years later, when his health was failing, that he recalled the days of his youth and the rolls of film he still had tucked away. That film was developed, and with the help of his family, a book was created: “Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942.”

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