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March 12, 2004

another friday with the fam

today was mom's birthday, so i went into raleigh to have dinner with the folks. since we're all going to myrtle beach next weekend to meet the canadians, we'll wind up having dinner together three fridays in a row. unprecedented!

after dinner, back at the house, i dug out some old photo albums to see if i could find a prom pic with both george and i, or any other useful pics. turns out the prom pics are at the beach house for some unknown reason, but mom and i both got really engrossed in the photo albums which we had not looked at in years. i showed my brothers some very early pictures of their dad, who they don't really remember (he died when they were six). when i showed them one of his very early pictures-- he looked to be maybe 8 or 9-- i said, "do you know who that is?" and daniel said, "is that me?"

i also found the class picture from my montessori pre-school-- but it turns out it's of not my class! my mom was a teaching assistant in the other class, and it's a picture of her with her class. it does have the names of all the students on the back, but no indicator of which school it was. however, mom realized that her old friend pat folk, who we met through that school, and who still lives in the area, may well remember the name of the school. so hopefully we'll find out for sure if sarah and i were in pre-school together!

we also made the interesting discovery that my first stepfather, richard (stuart and daniel's father) may have owned a VW beetle when he was young. we do know that he had a close friend in college who owned a beetle, and wrecked it and was killed in it. i have what looks to be a photo of that beetle now. that's significant to me because it was one of the primary reasons i wasn't allowed to have a beetle as my first car. i also have a photo of richard at the house with a very new-looking black beetle-- possibly his. we can ask gran if he did indeed have one.

finally, i saw a project that wayne has been working on with old, old photos of his family. he's scanned them, enhanced them, printed them and is matting and framing them for display at the beach house. one is a priceless shot of his mother as a young woman holding a sign that says "WE WANT BEER". for those who have visited my house, she's the one who collected all the crazy salt and pepper shakers. wayned printed a copy for me and i'll frame it and hang it next to the shaker collection.

Posted by lisa at March 12, 2004 10:41 PM | TrackBack

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I pored over that photo of the Montesorri class looking for a kid who looked like me. Then read your comment again and realized that you said the names were on the back of the photo. Duh.

Cute photo though, and so Montessori. That dude with the beard and the headband! I bet he had an acoustic guitar behind his back, just waiting for the photo to be done so he could play folk songs.

Posted by: Sarah on March 13, 2004 08:22 AM

my mom remembered that dude's name without even looking at the back. funny the things people remember. this pic would have been taken sometime between 71-73, so his look would probably have been quite normal. i love my mom's plaid pants (which she says she probably sewed herself-- she was a stay at home mom, aside from the montessori gig, and sewed our clothes, baked all of our bread, etc.)

she also remembered that one of the boys in the front row was his son.

Posted by: lisa on March 13, 2004 03:58 PM

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