Monday, June 28, 2010

Aunts & Uncles

From the top left:  It looks like Elizabeth is leaving. I cannot remember Elizabeth's husband's name. Jeanne or Bob can. This includes Elizabeth, Frank, Marguerite, Alice and Mary.  Center top: Clarence, Janet and Mary Top right: Clarence and Sam (?) Bakke and Dad Bottom left: Dr. David and Mary Curry Bottom center: Elizabeth's husband and brother. Bottom right: Elizabeth, Mary, Alice, Frank and two gentlemen that I can't name. 
Please remember, this is a Blog. By definition, that means you have to respond and/or correct me. Now that I'm looking at the names, I think I'm spelling Thibadeau wrong. Hmmm. Thibaudeau? Help me out, please! 


For the younger viewers, I'm going to post a "name that baby" page. Partly just for fun and partly because I don't have a clue who these cute little smiles belong to! 

Montana Country

This week I'm going through some more photos of the Thibadeau side of the family. I'll have them up today or tomorrow. First, I had to share this representative photo of a bear, which is one of 13 photos we have of bears in our family collection. I also have several photos of fish, deer and elk (living and dead) and Glacier Park scenery in black and white. There are numerous photos of Old Faithful and smaller geysers from all over Yellowstone.

This particular bear has a date of August 1963 - at least that's when it was processed! Our family didn't do a good job of scrap booking or even putting information on the back of pictures.

Hope you are all having a good summer! Stay away from the bears.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Where to begin?

Getting started with this project is more difficult than I anticipated! To begin with, In the bottom of a big, plastic tub, under Gram's pink sweater and next to Mom's pig cookie jar, I have baggies of photos that I want to share with Linda, Bob and Dave and your families. I will add pages from time to time and I encourage all of you to join the conversation and keep this blog going.

As I've been shuffling through the photos, memories keep popping up. For me, my earliest memories are mostly of the house on the corner of Breckenridge and Raleigh, although I remember the stairs in the house further up the hill on Raleigh. One of my earliest memories is of Dad's electric eraser and all of his fine pencils that he had lined up on the dining room table. Much later, a nice surprise was Jeanne's discovery of the Flathead Lake map that he probably did at that same dining room table.

So, what do you think? What are some of your earliest memories? The older grandchildren may have some, too.