Memories of Celia

How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, ~W.B. Yeats

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

One Box Sorted

My Finds
I have completely sorted one box. My sort was a very quick; is this a picture, a negative or something else. However, I accidentally mixed up the negatives and the something else. Many interesting finds. Of historical significance, a newspaper clipping of the marriage of Mickey Mantle to his "19-year-old schoolday sweetheart". Towards the end there were several letters from my mom when I was three, that she was very young, came across very clear. I also found three years worth of picture Christmas cards, in my naivete, I assumed picture Christmas cards were a recent trend, but after seeing all of my grandmothers friends cards from the early family days I am reforming my opinion.

Issues
For the task I agreed to, I am seeing several issues. The first two are obvious, who is this, when was this taken. The next two are subtle, and have to do with significance. There are pictures of telephone line, I personally have taken pictures of downed telephone line after a big storm, but these seem to be installed correctly, even knowing that my grandfather was an electrical engineer, I am still slightly baffled by these photos. Then there are pictures of places, apparantly famous places, that I just do not have enough southern experience to appreciate. Side Note on my Grandmother. Although my grandmother was neither born in the south, nor primarily raised in the south, she would consider herself the epitome of the southern gentle women, or at least that is my impression of her. While she did graduate from high school in Dallas, attend Baylor University, and marry a very blatent Texan (one of the founded families of Jasper Texas with ties into most of East Texas), as a young child, her parents traveled considerable, teaching in the small towns of most of the midwest.

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