While I was in Ohio for the holidays, my mom and I went through old photo albums of my grandmother’s from the 1930s and 40s. There are tons of photos of her time living in Norway and France and then later in Egypt teaching piano to young girls. My grandmother was a beautiful pianist; as a […]
Our grandparents lived in the small town of Morehouse, Missouri, in the same house our father grew up in. It wouldn’t have been summer without a week or two at Granny and Poppy’s house, with the back yard which seemed huge to us, and the windows of that house without air conditioning thrown up at […]
Warm tears wound down my cheeks. I don’t remember. I can’t remember. It was bedtime with my daughter. The usual hugs, kisses, cuddles and songs weren’t enough tonight. She started asking about Great Grandma Cannon, who passed away eight years before my daughter was born. What did she look like? Like a 1940s movie star, with […]
Villa Ernest, circa 1968. Here I am with the lady from upstairs, Mamie, who introduced me to football, ancient French Francs, grand maternal love and a sense of generations and responsibilities in life. Mamie was born at the end of the XIXth century, had lost her beloved brother during WWI, her beloved husband and first […]
This is a detail of my great grandmother Sophronia’s class picture, c. 1888. It is a huge class, too big to see in its entirety here. Though she’s not in this part of the picture, she doesn’t have to be for me to feel its profundity. Her classmates and teacher say so much about her life – way […]
Missing my mom. This is mom in the summer of ’57 on the Staten Island ferry. It was her first time going back to visit her parents in NY after getting married and moving to Cleveland. I lost my mom in 2006. She always looked forward to her yearly visits back to NYC to see […]
All I want for Christmas is memories. Christmas morning, 1968. Here, my parents captured that magical moment when my siblings and I rounded the corner from our front stairs and hallway to the living room. When we stepped into the room, we saw that Santa had made his visit; erecting a massive tree, decorating every […]
1965. My mom (far left) was born and raised on the island of Raiatea (French Polynesia). She is pictured here with 4 of her 9 siblings and my grandparents in front of their home.
My grandparents got married without the support or consent of their families. They led a life of hard work on a farm, in very humble conditions.
Gosh, we really have it SO easy.
I’m grateful for the missionaries who not only changed their (and in turn mine) lives forever, but who were also able to document this.
With my grandmother and one of my aunties gone, these photos truly have become priceless. ~shared by @lobleebags
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We become who we are after understanding who they were.
This is my grandmother Velma Steward Sanders (center) with her siblings Emma and RT in Navarro County, Texas in 1922.
My sweet grandmother and her sister have lived in the same community in Texas their entire lives! They lived within a mile radius of their siblings.
Their father, Jim, donated the land for the colored school and part of the cemetery in Goodlow, Texas.
Uncle RT went to WWII and served overseas. He’s the baby in the picture, but he’s now 93!
My grandmother will be 97 in June. This picture is a great glimpse into their beginnings. ~shared by @aaronlmyers
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Dad riding low in the early 1950s.
He was a poor farm kid, the youngest of five, enjoying their treasured yearly outing to the Grant County Fair in Lancaster, WI.
This is a great photo to me because it shows the fun, adventurous side of my dad that he carried throughout the rest of his life.
He passed away in 2010, so I truly treasure any bit of him I can get. ~shared by @dahlidurley
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