More from Casa BrIsaacson

Some shots from the new house, taken by my super-talented wife. These are the photos Emily put up Facebook, so if you've seen those, you've already read this blog posting.



A porch swing, for whittlin' and wine drinkin'.



The new bed in the new bedroom.





And the living room:







The dining room:











Our collection of "great books," published at around the turn of the 20th century. These came from Emily's grandfather's library, as did the Shakespeare clock:



And here we have Oliver the Cat. He's not ours, though he's pretty much laid claim to the front porch:

Mary and Chase Wilson

Off to the honeymoon

Casa BrIsaacson

It's official. Team BrIsaacson has a permanent home. We signed the papers today.

Peeking through

The Meekers at Mesa Verde

An oldie and a goodie

We're not entirely sure who is in this particular picture, but the note in the photo album suggests that the woman on the left is probably Georgia Poage.

Dime photo

Georgia Meeker

Looking jaunty

Kenneth Cooper in the late 1920s. The quality of the picture isn't great, since the photo itself is quite small. Still, I'm always happy to find pictures of my grandparents when they were children.

Just a high school junior

Ruthe Meeker

Studying away

Kenneth in a history classroom at the College of Emporia.

Fusons and Meekers in Emporia

I've always had this notion that I'm from a fairly small family -- which is sort of true. I'm one of two children and I have only one first cousin. However, when you start to extend beyond the immediate family, the family is actually pretty large, as you can see from this particular reunion in Emporia, Kansas.

So outdoorsy ...

Meeker siblings fishing on a vacation in Colorado

Cousins

The Fusons and the Meekers. I'm not sure where Mil is looking, but it's certainly somewhere else.

Attention!

That title really is Ruthe's caption for this picture of John and Ben Meeker. What good posture we have ...

Lounging at Lake City

Ben, Ruthe and Mil Meeker

Above Wolf Creek Pass

Meeker siblings enjoying the view

Playing around with the camera

Ruthe and Mary liked to take funny pictures of each other. This is Ruthe posing in Anadarko.

The Meekers and the Carters, 1941

Kansas connections

Mary Teschner, Josie Cooper, Will Cooper and Adolph Teschner.

John Meeker and Ree Carter, 1941

John Meeker drinking from the hydrant

John Meeker always struck me as a very serious fellow. He toured the country giving lectures about the importance of teetotaling. He briefly went to an Ivy League school for seminary before heading to transferring to a California seminary. He was a Presbyterian minister, particularly interested in missionary work throughout the west. He camped in a suit.

But this picture is a bit goofy ...

Taken probably around 1910

Fording the river

Ben and Ruthe in the river on the 1936 vacation to Colorado.

Ben and Ruthe, 1918

Ben and Ruthe Meeker, American Fork, Utah. 1918.

Ben on horseback

Ben Meeker riding on horseback during the 1936 family vacation to Uncle Dwight's cabin in South Fork.

Meeker children, 1917

Ben, Mil and Mary Meeker (plus cat and baby doll) in 1917 (?). The picture is taken in American Fork, Utah.

Mil, Ruthe, and Ben, 1941

Meeker siblings Mil, Ruthe and Ben loiter about the backyard while Georgia and John work in the garden. The picture is taken in Del Norte, Colorado.

Ruth as a toddler

My grandmother, Ruth Meeker, was born in 1918. This picture dates from sometime late in 1919 or early 1920.

Wild West Action

Or something.

Ruthe and Ben Meeker riding horses on the 1936 camping trip to the Poage Homestead near South Fork. Ruthe's caption reads "a la Wild West."

This is the sort of picture that always surprises me. My grandmother never struck me as someone to really camp and ride horses -- but here she is.

Georgia camping

Georgia Meeker at the Mineral Spring. Near South Fork. 1936.

John Meeker's Sunday look vs. his Monday look

Summer project

I have a number of summer projects -- writing projects, moving projects (we're buying a home -- hooray! but that means we have move -- a little less hooray), reading projects -- but the biggest of the projects (okay, besides the house purchasing ...) is to archive the photos/albums from my grandparents house. When the family started cleaning out the house, I asked if I could take the photographs for now -- to digitally archive them so that they'd be preserved in an additional format. That way, we can share the best of the pictures, at least digitally.

It was agreed that this would be acceptable. I will pass the pictures on to my mother when I'm done, but I'll hold them for now.

I had no idea how very many photo albums there would be -- as well as miscellaneous boxes of already-mounted portraits of family members. This is going to take longer than I thought. But it will certainly keep me busy and out of trouble. Or something to that effect.

What you see above is a page from Volume One of my grandmother's photo albums. I'm working to preserve the early albums as full pages (because the notes are often funny) and as highlighted individual pictures. (Click on the above image for closer inspection.)

Hopefully, I'll be bringing those pictures to this blog in short order as well. I'll have enough to keep me going here for a long time to come (if I can keep things organized and remember what I've already posted ...)

The pictures span from nearly 100 years old to about 10 years old. That's a lot to work on. The page from above includes pictures from about 1936 or 1937.

More will come ...

Prom night

It's that time of the year ... so I thought I'd pull out an old shot of Barbara heading to the prom.

Early school pictures ...

Are always pretty fun

Looking lovely, probably in about preschool or kindergarten.

Camping

Kenneth and Ruthe honeymooned at the Lake of the Ozarks, in Missouri. Good times with camping.

Florida vacation

The Isaacsons on vacation in Florida, 1950s

1951

Will and Josie Cooper

New Big Sister

Barbara holding a very young Kent.

1954

Barbara hanging out in a park. Presumably on a picnic.

Play-doh master

Jon doing some serious work with the play-doh thingy.

We sometimes would make play-doh -- you know, family science project. Sometimes it worked out okay. But the first time we tried it, it turned out like oobleck.