Saturday, November 30, 2013

Old Photos


Went through some old family photos last night. I mean old. None of this "the Seventies were a long time ago" stuff. These were mainly from the 1920s. There's one from my dad's side of the family which could have been used in The Grapes of Wrath. [Not that I'm immune. One of my elementary school photos clearly puts me in the Most Impoverished Looking Child category.]

Some are extraordinary. There's one of a relative being baptized in a canal. [They knew how to save on frills in those days.] There's another of my great aunt with her elementary school class. Many of the boys are wearing bib overalls and a few are barefoot. Both my great aunt and uncle were teachers and they often bought shoes for their students. My great aunt also taught her classes how to play baseball. [I wish I had pictures of that.]

But there are so many photos of relatives I never knew. I look into their faces and wonder, "What was that person like?"

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