Dwight Peck's personal website
Physiognomy
Faces -- and the study of faces, revealing
the deepest secrets of character and moral history and, probably,
diet -- the study of people's faces changing over time leads one
into all sorts of back alleys of the human pageant. In some cases,
the study of human faces also reveals hints of more than a few sad
barroom incidents and a couple of mountain "endos" (i.e.,
end over end) into the bargain.
Since this is Peck's
own personal website, guess whose physiognomy we're mostly going
to study today.
Taken sometime in that vague and numinous period
between the deaths of Yamamoto and Hitler and the rise to fame
of Sid Caesar and Ed Sullivan, when Joe McCarthy was laying down
the terms of future political discourse in America, all the kids
spent 10 minutes a day huddled under their desks pretending to
be learning how to survive nuclear attacks, and Adlai Stevenson
was sent packing for being an "egghead".

This is not Peck, this is a surrogate, a Pascack
Indian with his name on it.

As a young Dad (with pre-astrophysicist Alison),
1966

Mr Peck freshly shorn in Kansas, 1966-1967 (Left)

Recovering from the USA nicely, Mr Peck puffs
a pipe and views hiking maps with Professor Charles Berman (right),
Col des Mosses, Switzerland, 1979. Nice spot -- better coffee, fewer
Republicans; let's hang out here for a while.

Viewing the Castle of Chillon, 1979


The unfocused narrator (right) with Cathy, Charlie,
and Nicole in Hermance, 1979

First adventures in the Leysin mountains -- Sur
les Truex, 1979-1980. In jeans

Academic Dean complete with tie on (left)
and the whole regalia thing at ACS graduation, 1979 or 1980 |
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Playing go with Pierre,
Alexandra House, 1979
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(Left) Renaissance scholar Peck hard at his studies
(Picsou = Uncle Scrooge). Right: Trying to get oriented
in Switzerland, 1980
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The New Hotel in Houmt Souk, Isle of Djerba,
Tunisia, 1981

End of a winter camping trip, Château d'Oex,
February 1982

Still another lesson well learnt: Many broken
bones from a little slip near Sustenpass,
1982

Orkney ferry, 1983

At Lac d'Hongrin, 1983

With friend Marlowe Peck, early 1985, après ski

Another summit in the préalps, winter 1986

Festooned by Marlowe Tyson Peck, Chalet Pollux,
1990 (photo by Michèle)

Watching Bugs Bunny on télé with
Marlowe, Chalet Pollux, 1991

The other end of the physiognomy, whilst headed
uphill behind Famelon, 1991 (Photo by Marta)

Mont d'Or
with friend Marta, February 1991, halfway up

Here's a physiognomy much much nicer than Mr
Peck's. Michele [right],
Swiss Préalps, 1991

Somewhere above Leysin, 1992 (photo by Marta)

Looking for a pub after the rainy Morat-Fribourg
marathon, with Carmen and Lisa, 1991 or 1992
Physiognomy,
Part two

Who could deny this
little nerd anything he asks for? (A lot of time has passed,
and we're still waiting for an answer.)
Some of the many ravages and disfigurements
of time upon that cherubic face have been revealed above, but
now we push our luck past 1991. Into the unknown.

Kind Papa leading young Marlowe up for some snowcaving
practice, 1992

With Michele, 1992

Mr Peck newly clean-shaven for job hunting purposes,
on Pic Chaussy with L. Durham, 1992

Both of them seriously out of employment in
1992, Mr Peck and his favorite neighbor/boarder Carmen hiked most
of the Vaudoise mountains in summer and autumn of 1992.

Unease in the Alps, 1992 |

Unease in Geneva, 1994 |

With Marlowe Peck on top of Mount Mansfield,
Vermont, USA, in 1994

Drinking water hastily in Ohio, USA, after
a run with nephew Adrian Lime; young Marlowe Tyson Peck still
in pajamas. Summer 1994

With daughter Alison at the Trient Glacier, 1994

Marlowe, Alison, and Dad visiting Kristin
in Wisconsin, summer 1996
Visiting Alice R. Peck with Kristin in Ohio, USA, August
1996

The High Route in the Swiss Alps, 1997

Kancamagus highway, New Hampshire, USA, 1998

Lost in Wisconsin
(again), 2000

Eating chocolate in the Jura mountains, 2001

Rapporteur for the Standing Committee of the
Convention on Wetlands, December 2001

Chilly on Mont de Bière, January 2003

Smug in the Pré-Alps, April 2003

With Marlowe in Pennsylvania, USA, April 2003

At Durnstein castle near Vienna, in a T-shirt from the rummage sale, with Kristin, July 2003

Vienna, 2003 (photo by Elke)

Viewing the Grottes
of Naye, September 2003

Alison's visit, October
2003

With Joe Pirri, Mont
de Bière Devant, March 2004: perpetual merriment

Environmental conservation issues, with Denis,
Wendy, Amalia, and Sandra, 2004

Marlowe and the Old Dad, December 2004

In swaddling clothes, April 2005

Querulous near Engstligenalp, August 2005 (photo by Kristin)

Vermont, 2006

Contemplative, late November 2006, with the Cornettes
de Bise on the horizon

December 2006, Grotte
à Chenuz (photo by Dr Pirri)

Pointe de Poêle
Chaud, March 2007, with fellow hiker Christine

In Wisconsin to get married, 2009, with daughter Marlowe

Photo by Alison,
October 2009

Hard at work, Kobuleti, Georgia, May 2010

Grandpa, with Marlowe and Young Will,
July 2011

(-- Look'ee there!) Altamura, Apulia, Italy, October 2011, with Kristin and Cousin Rob (photo by Elke)

Moments later, trying to hold the pose (photo by Elke)

Rome, October 2011

Grand Cunay, April 2012

Ramsar COP11 in Bucharest, July 2012

Lost in the forest, January 2013

Will and Grampa Dwight, August 2015

Profoundly wary, Wisconsin, August 2015

Mont de Bière Devant, November 2017

Mont de Bière, Swiss Jura, March 2018

Somewhere in the Jura mountains, early April 2018

Suntanning near Marchairuz, February 2019

The Flintsteel River on Lake Superior, September 2021

Hydrobiking into an autumn headwind, northern Wisconsin, 2021

Memorializing a facial hornet attack, 2023

At the Lake of Averno, near Naples, October 2024

Hiking about in Tivoli, Italy, 2024
More physiognomy
Kristin,
before and after 1995
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All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 19 April 2001, revised 5 February 2022, updated 9 March 2025.
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