Chickaroo,
Thanks, and yes, I do plan to frame it and display it. My mom never talked about having chickens on her family farm when she grew up, but she probably did. And I never started raising chooks until well after her death. Kinda a shame since I think it would have brought her back to...
Hi Melanie,
Do you know where they lived in the Catskill area? I've actually still got some relatives up there. It's a very poor economic area right now. Of course many of the family farmers can no longer survive. The farm that this picture was taken from was sold by my distant cousins to a...
Those letters could be from WWI - that sounds really neat. I agree with Okiechick - go for it and read them.
I wish my mom was still alive so I could hear all the old stories about my relatives... although things do change in some ways, many things never do -- and one is love.
I've be organizing our family albums and scanning photos to ultimately distribute to my family. I came across a photo of my great grandmother feeding her chickens. As you can kinda tell from the less than flat terrain, they lived in the Catskills Mtns where they dairy farmed.
A long...