A bad picture of very good bread

My grandmother's homemade bread was the best thing ever. Or at least I always thought so.

Grandpa thought so, too, and he took a rather blurry picture of it early in their marriage.

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Harold, Josie and cats

One of the things about the photo albums that I always find interesting is the editing that was done over the years.  There are often two different hands in the captions -- and I like the inclusion of "Kenneth's mother" rather than Josephine or Josie.

He holds his liquor

A picture from Ruthe and Kenneth's honeymoon at Lake of the Ozarks

Goozums

I do not know whom Goozums belonged to, but there he is in the album.

Dorothy and Gladys

1942

What's they're doing is beyond me, and the photo album lacked a caption on this one.

Old Yearbooks

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has digitized a number of old yearbooks, including the Chowan's.  While it's not family photos, it's still really cool.

One of my favorites from the early years at Chowan:

1915 Basketball team

Gladys

1942

End of wedding picnic, Ruthe

End of the wedding picnic, Kenneth

Dorothy, with cat

1942

One of the things that I love about this side of my family is that it doesn't matter whether it's the Coopers or the Meekers, there's frequently a cat around.  It makes my huge number of pictures of my own cats look slightly less obsessive.

Cooper family, early 1940s

Will, Harold, Josie, Kenneth, Dorothy and Gladys