Family Portraits and Family History

My parents' home is across the road from a college. It happens to be a college attended by my grandmother and my aunt--my mother's mother and sister.

On one of our rambles, my mother and I visited the Alumni House.



Inside there's a little museum with artifacts and memorabilia.





Here is a bird's-eye view of the campus soon after it moved to the edge of town from a downtown location. The image pre-dates the construction of my family home, but the red arrow indicates its eventual location.



In a bookcase in the little museum we also found a collection of old yearbooks. So we looked up my grandmother's senior class photo.




For a time during her childhood, my grandmother lived in this pretty house.



In my parents' home are many family portraits. Two of my maternal grandfather, as a young Naval officer and later in his retirement after "working for Presidents". There's one of my grandmother, too.

Two charcoal portraits were made of me--one when I was a very little girl, and one when I was ten years old and performing in a play. Two pastel portraits were done later.

I remember sitting for this one when I was home from college. I wore a similar blouse when I played Irina in Chekhov's The Three Sisters.



I can't believe I ever looked so youthful!