Billy, ca 1923 When my grandfather Bill was about 3 – the age he is in the picture here – he and his mother Charlotte went to go visit her parents in the Bronx. They lived in Newark, New Jersey at the time, so it wasn’t a long trip, and it’s one they had made [...]
I am in Tucson, Arizona this week for a workshop on cataloging and archiving photographs, which somewhat ironically leaves me with very little time to muse on my own photographic family history. So instead, I leave you with a picture of my grandfather, his sister and their parents — in Tucson, Arizona in 1935. A. [...]
My grandfather Bill sometimes tells stories about his summers at Camp Cobbossee in Winthrop, Maine: about hiking into town to have strawberry phosphates, how his parents and sister would come up from New Jersey and stay at a nearby hotel with other parents of campers, how someone told him he had funny knees once and [...]