Throwback Thursday

My Mother in a Sheep Pen 1917

I can’t remember if I posted this already. She’s 4 or 5 depending what month. Born Sept 1912

April 1, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: 1917, Durand Illinois, family, grandmother’s album, mother, photography, postaday, sheep, vintage 9 Comments

Throwback Thursday 1988

My son Mark on left, with his friends Justin and Matt but I’ll have to ask the drummers name

Found while cleaning out a desk.

March 25, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: childhood, photography, postaday, school, the Beatles, Throwback Thursday 7 Comments

My Mother in the Hat 1916

My mother in the hat on the the left with her brothers John on right and Robert in the middle.

. Durand Illinois. From my grandmothers album.

March 17, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: ancestors, antique, Durand Illinois, family, grandmother’s album, mother, photography, postaday, uncles, vintage 9 Comments

My Grandmother and Great Aunt c.1917

But who is in the middle? A neighbor, relative? Their grandmother? Not their mother.

I wish I knew. Maybe my cousins will be able to identify.

On the left my Aunt Edna and on the right her sister Charlotte, my maternal grandmother. The woman between is unidentified.

Durand Illinois c.1917

January 27, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: 1917, Durand Illinois, grandmother’s album, photography, postaday, Throwback Thursday, vintage 5 Comments

My father attended the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. I remember he took a train to DC and it was really really cold. The rest of the memorabilia is at my son’s house.

This is one of the buttons he brought home as a souvenir.

January 21, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: family, inauguration, JFK, photography, postaday, President, souvenir, Washington DC 9 Comments

My Mother and her Brother Robert c. 1925

Robert and Marian VanSickle. Durand Illinois c.1925. My mother sporting breeches and tie

January 13, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: ancestors, brother, Durand IL, family, fashion, mother, photography, postaday, Throwback Thursday, uncle 16 Comments

Illinois Snow in the 1920’s

My grandmother Charlotte in the hat and coat standing in front of the snow and my grandfather Judd with the shovel. Durand, Illinois. We had five inches yesterday in Pittsburgh.

Nothing like this!

December 2, 2020 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Things in the Snow, Throwback ThursdayTags: 1920’s, Durand IL, family, grandparents, photography, postaday, shovel, snow, storm, Throwback Thursday, weather 20 Comments

Throwback Thursday on Thanksgiving

That’s a lot of th in the title today.

There’s much to be grateful for as a daily practice, not limited to Thanksgiving.

I am paying tribute and expressing gratitude for good parents. I found this photo today and remembered our Thanksgivings together. And apart. An inscription of gratitude for their friendship was on the back of the photo, written by friends Ethel and Coleman Ives who must have mailed them the photo. I believe it’s taken in New Haven, Connecticut.

Once, when I was missing my mother snd father so strongly, in the depths of grief, a counselor advised me to do for others what my parents did for me.

My parents set a good example of how to be loving and caring humans which I’ve tried to pass on to my own family. ❤️