McCleary, Washington
The Diogenes Club
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Phone photo 3039
Excuse me, but am I the only person who finds the idea of using a talking severed hand to be a disturbing mascot for a product designed to enhance the cooking of ground up cattle? And the fact it has a clown nose makes it sort of super horrifying I'd say.
Aunt Mary Burns
"Aunt Mary Burns"
Verso: E.E. Shaver, Photographer, Chelsea, Mich.
Mary Jane Reeves (1836-1920) married Jerome Burns in 1855 and lived in Michigan. She was my great-great grandfather's sister. It appears she outlived all of her siblings.
Morty Comix # 2675
Reeves Family Album
I have a couple old puffy Victorian-era family photo albums, both tracing back to my Mom's relatives. Some of the photos are tintypes, and I know a few were taken during the Civil War. They are pretty interesting as artifacts, and in many cases I have no idea who the subject is, or otherwise have little information.
The first of the two albums apparently belonged to my great-grandmother, Jennie Melissa Reeves, who married Theodore Jacob Hoss. I'm going to try and spare all of you any lengthy genealogical narratives, but I will supply some brief facts with each photo as we go.
This particular album was handed down to Jennie's oldest child, my grandmother. After she died in 1978 my Mom picked it up as the surviving heirs divided up the estate. It was given to me quite some ago when I was still interested in family history. The advent of Internet sort of spoiled the hunt for me, I must say. At least I got to talk to all those oldtimers in the 1970s and 1980s before their entire generation passed on. My grandparents and their siblings were born mostly in the 1880s or 1890s.
When I hauled this monster into the living room Hettie had to come and check it out.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Postcard - Wilmcote, Warwickshire
1960s?
Friday, November 29, 2013
Favorite Movie Quotes: King of the Gypsies
"Maybe I was born too late. But who gets to pick when they're born? Or pick their mother and father? The biggest decision in your life-- nobody even gets to say anything about it. But all the rest of your life you live with it, or fight it."
Postcard - Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
1960s?
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Thursday, November 28, 2013
The Wild Russian Boars of Grays Harbor County
Remember about a dozen years ago how the proliferation of wild Russian boars
terrorizing the hills of northern Grays Harbor County was in the news?
Seattle Times 8/9/2001
I remember seeing one that had been killed and then became a guest of a taxidermist and was on display in the front window of a Montesano sports shop. The thing had tusks and was about the size of a small couch.
The Washington State Dept. of Fish and Wildlife ruled that hunters could shoot these boars any time of the year, no permit needed, according to a June 22, 2001 press release.
Seattle Times 8/9/2001
I remember seeing one that had been killed and then became a guest of a taxidermist and was on display in the front window of a Montesano sports shop. The thing had tusks and was about the size of a small couch.
The Washington State Dept. of Fish and Wildlife ruled that hunters could shoot these boars any time of the year, no permit needed, according to a June 22, 2001 press release.
Anyone out there have any update on this story?
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