All this from the year of your mother's birth, or close enough. She sure has seen a lot, uh? what a treasure it must be to walk through those memories with her.
I hope you have your recorder running. My mother died at ninety-four and I regret now that I didn't capture more of her stories.
Not earth-shaking ones, just the everyday stuff and how great events would affect her and the folks with her.
"We were in the garden on our friends' farm, weeding, when I split the seam of my pants. I walked up to the farmhouse and they were all gathered 'round the radio listening how the Japs had bombed Pearl Harbor." Simple things.
The world was a restless place then. As it is now. What is to be done about it? Raise a glass to the New Year. And carry on. Life is what's happening when you had other plans.
Happy New Year to all!
Posted by Jimmy J. at January 1, 2015 12:16 AMYep. Onwards.
Posted by vanderleun at January 1, 2015 4:21 AMGerard,
Thanks for a delightful delve into 1915 with your digital scissors and paste pot. Think of the labor required back in 1915, if one were to have tried a similar "tour" of 1815. Even if they had access, say, to the Library of Congress or the New York Public Library, they would have had a difficult time duplicating what you have done from, I trust, the relative comfort of your chair. Think, merely, of the logistics of reproduction. Happy New Year, and thanks for continuing to provide so many delights for the mind... and the soul.
Appropriate closing slide.
D.W. Griffith was a Freemason.
You would have to remind us long-suffering Phillies fans that The Team had to wait 65 years after 1915 to cart home its first World Series trophy (s'all right-- the Cubbies have been waiting over a century for their next one).
And thank you for having a sense of humor as well as a gift for poetry and a deep awareness of the things that abide. God's blessings on your new year.
Posted by PA Cat at January 1, 2015 6:23 AMIt would seem that this Griffith chap had quite deep sympathies for the Klan. A point of view I have never seen portrayed with anywhere near this level of bias. Quite disturbing.
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