While scanning family photos, my aunt and I came across this Halloween class photo (my mom is in the back row, 6th from the left, wearing a bonnet and glasses; I think she’s either a pilgrim or a nurse). This would have been circa 1955. I find the masks to her left completely terrifying. Some of the costumes remind me of the Halloween scenes from the movie version of To Kill a Mockingbird.
I found this quiet little area at the back of the Old Wye Episcopal Church Cemetery in Wye Mills, Md. Note how the cross is used as a motif on the parish web site. I’ll post more about the cemetery in a future Tombstone Tuesday post.
You reach this area by crossing the bridge below at the rear of the cemetery.
Photo taken at Stevensville Cemetery on Kent Island in Maryland.
Or so it says on the back of this photo of my grandparents.
I would love to know where exactly Bonniebrook is/was…
My great-great grandparents, Joseph and Mollie (Taylor) Hayes (née Mary Evelyn Taylor)
The back of the photo, with notes in my grandma’s handwriting (Wm. E. Hayes was my great-grandfather).
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My mom (the taller child) and one of my aunts with my grandma in front of a fountain in Europe. Possibly in Tivoli, Italy.
Two of my aunts with my mom in the background. From the late 1950s. Photo in the possession of the aunt on the left.
Found among my dad’s old things while doing some cleaning over the weekend:
"Screw Loose, Sir?
Pocket Screwdriver Inside
One of my absolute favorite photos of my grandmother, Grace. Wasn’t she beautiful?
And, technically, my soon-to-be baby sis too! I’m almost four in this photo:
Mom would have been 61 this past Sunday. Miss you, Mom!
