Time In A Bottle

 

Remembering warmly my maternal grandparents today.  They were married on this date in 1921. 96 years ago.  They had three beautiful daughters, each of whom had wonderful families of their own.  All three of their daughters have passed on.  Their descendants continue to live productive and remarkable lives.  My mother, Katherine, is on the far left in 1st photo and on the far right in the second photo.  My guess is she is about nine years old here, which would date these pictures around around 1932.  My grandparents are not together in these photos because they probably were taking the pictures of each other with their children.  It’s interesting to speculate on the non-smiling faces displayed. I’ve noticed this seriousness on other photos of the era.  I guess it wasn’t considered proper to smile.  A far cry from the contemporary approach to family photos.

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Author: billbenbarker

I recently retired after a 34 year career in public education. I was a teacher, supervisor, and administrator. Essentially, I enjoyed it all. The nonsense surrounding NCLB basically drove me to the edge...a good intention gone terribly wrong. In addition, I'm a founder (along with my late wife, Carolyn) of the Country Gate Playhouse community theatre in Belvidere, New Jersey. In recent years I've dabbled in writing interactive dinner theatre plays. I have also written a play called "Jersey Diner" as well as a youth oriented musical adaptation of "Tom Sawyer". Since "retiring" I'm an adjunct at our local community college. I also serve as a New Jersey school district education consultant.

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