When I stumbled upon this picture on the Internet of “Midsummer Night in Harlem 1938″ by Virginia-born artist Palmer Hayden, it brought back a flood of memories from my growing-up days in Baltimore. The “colored” (as we said in those days) row house neighborhoods of my 1950s looked exactly like the place portrayed in this [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Midsummer Night in the City
Posted in Baltimore, tagged 1938, Baltimore, community, harlem, painting, palmer hayden on September 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Off to Australia
Posted in family, tagged australia, england on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Not me, but my cousin Janet. I am so excited for her that I copied some of my webpages about my Richardson family’s adventures there in the late 1800s. Janet is not related to them; she is my cousin on the Virginia side of my family - The VIAs of Virginia. I told her that [...]
Aunt Ivy
Posted in family, tagged baby, family, ivy, maryland, violet on September 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I think of Aunt Ivy often these days, as she was my father’s baby sister and is the last living member of his generation. She is now 94 years old, and continues to keep her own home. She has attained a greater age than any one of her forebears.
Her family immigrated to the United States in [...]
Grandma Dora’s Photo
Posted in family, grandchildren, tagged baby, grandmother, grandmothers on September 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Grandma Dora took this photograph of me holding the precious newborn Bethany Anne at the hospital. I cannot resist posting it as it is so beautiful. Yes indeed, Baby Bethany does have big hands; it is not a photographic illusion. I think that means she will be artistic.
The image, Grandma Dora’s Photo, was originally uploaded by barneykin. [...]
The Pin That Tells a Story
Posted in Edna, tagged 1890, american revolution, brooch, dar, insignia, nsdar, pin on September 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) was founded in 1890. This, its official insignia, represents a spinning wheel. The platinum or white gold distaff represents flax. The Society’s name is enameled on the blue rim of the pin, which is surrounded by thirteen stars representing the thirteen original colonies. The blue and white [...]
On Seeing God
Posted in Edna, tagged God, sunset on September 22, 2007 | No Comments »
From Sunset on the Kennebunk River
They tell me I cannot see God. I have no idea how they can be so sure of what I cannot see. Considering that they have never seen God, how can they be so absolute in their pronouncements that no one can see God? I only know that I must be special, [...]
Granny and Bethany
Posted in Edna, grandchildren, tagged baby, grandmother on September 20, 2007 | No Comments »
We keep singing because we hear the music. We hear the joy bells, on this, one of the final days of summer, ringing in the arrival of a new creation, a joyful bundle of wonderment, Bethany Anne. She arrived from a far away place, coming into our world to remind us of miracles that never [...]
Lead Belly Blues
Posted in music, tagged blues, huddie ledbetter, music on September 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Lead Belly was born Huddie Ledbetter, either in Texas or Louisiana, sometime around 1887 or 1888. He was an powerful “musicianer”, but he was also a powerful mean man with a knife. His second stint in prison was for killing a relative in a fight. After serving seven years for that crime, he was able to convince the governor of Texas to set him free by writing him a song:
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