A hundred years ago.
Vacation in the ‘20s
Tag: Throwback Thursday
Four Friends in my Grandmother’s Album
About 1918 Durand Illinois. Not my aunts or grandmother. Four Unidentified friends from my grandmother’s album.
Illinois, Circa 1924, Before They Lost the Farm
My father’s parents Alta (b.1895) on left and Floyd (b.1892) on the right in overalls with the pipe in his mouth, My father’s younger brother Alan (b. 1916) along with Forrest and Martha (don’t know who they are) and my grandmother’s sister, Sis. Farmersville, Illinois.
A Photo with names written on the back
My Grandmother and the Chickens
(In one of those awful sticky pages photo albums, the type that ruin the photographs)-
One Couple Out of Four
Durand Illinois about 1916. The only people I can identify are my maternal grandparents. These two photos are next to one another in my Grandmother’s Album.
Throwback Thursday 1988
Found while cleaning out a desk.
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
My Mother and her Brother Robert c. 1925
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!
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. ❤️
