We moved from the farm in 1968. Its hard to believe I was close to being 12 years old – I seemed so much younger. This is my “childhood” memory of the layout of the farm. Aunt Liza’s (Eliza Pennell) house is no longer there and our house burnt to the ground some years after we moved. The “Pioneer Baby Graves” (“Indian Baby Graves”) were not graves – that’s just what Dad said they were. They were just different shaped mounds. Wayne built a fabulous tree house in the Forest (bottom right). The “Lamb Pasture Hill” (bottom centre) was the “Calf Pasture Hill” to my older sisters. The “Creek” (top left) is actually Blue Sea Creek – somewhat of a misnomer as it wasn’t blue and wasn’t from the sea.
The “Outhouse” (centre) was not used in my memory.
The collage below of images below shows the house and the arrows point to where around the house the pictures were taken.
In the process of organizing all the pictures I had accumulated, it was interesting to find that I had a couple of different versions of pictures taken on the same day. The bottom two pictures are examples of that. But in examining these pictures, I’m struck by the question: Why is Dad dressed so formally (the only one wearing a tie, a vest and a pocket watch, the chain visible across the vest)? This looks like a big occasion. The whole family was there. Everyone else seems under-dressed and Mom dated the picture 1948 AND she nor Carol are in the picture. Carol was born in November 1948.
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