The doll buggy originally belonged to Liz. I appropriated it, not for dolls for heaven's sake, but as a means of hauling our big white cat around. Liz showed no propensity for quilting and fabric stores at this age. Liz made the two quilts mentioned on other blog posts.
My Uncle Orvil, 1920s
During the last four or five years I have sorted, scanned, and edited about 17,000 family photos, some of which go back for a century or more. In doing so, I went through a shoebox full of negatives collected by my father in law which, when I finished, involved scanning and editing more than 1,000 photos. Beginning with this post, I will add occasional photos from this series. I hope that by so doing I might encourage others to sort, scan, edit, and preserve their own family heritage before negatives, slides, and albums, are lost due to accidents, fires, floods, deterioration, or other causes. By recreating your family heritage, you will find that you will be getting acquainted with people long gone more than you could ever have imagined. The startling clarity of recognition of the past will illuminate our lives today and will provide a priceless heritage for our posterity. So here, with some trepidation, is photo number one:
The Curmudgeonly Professor at 19, a junior at the University of Wyoming, and his then girlfriend, and soon-to-be wife, Velna at 18, 1951, Laramie, WY
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At the risk of being curmudgeonly myself, your pants were too long and your wife (my sister) has her arms crossed in a closed position (non-verbal) indicating she is not happy to be posing with you. And besides, I believe you cropped me out of the photo, didn't you?
Posted by: Evetta | February 15, 2008 at 01:31 PM
Readers should know that this commenter is my sister in law who, when I was courting her sister, would cheerfully read Velna's diary over the phone to me. I hoped that I would learn some useful tidbits, but all she ever wrote about was things like "I washed my hair today," or, "Jean and I went to Woolworth's". It looks like I will need to get even.
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