In 2014 I was pleased to complete Moth at the Window. This year I would like to get the photo albums organized and sort more of ancestral papers. Last weeked I discarded several handfuls of old newspaper clippings that included sports statistics from 1933-1937 that were in my father's collection of coaching memorabilia. I think I can do without them. I did keep his scorebook from the year he took the Coventry High School boys basketball team to the championships, as well as newspaper clippings that included him by name or photo.
I continue to learn about G.W. Clayton every time I pick up another of his letters. And, believe it or not I am still finding new poems folded in correspondence that I am now reading for the first time. I love reading handwritten letters. I don't think there is anywhere else can you gain an intimate understanding of a person who is no longer alive.
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| Cyrinthia and G.W. Clayton with baby Jean, circa 1920 |
G.W. was born in 1884, 19 years after the Civil War ended. Imagine that. Ringling Brothers Circus premiered that year. Alaska became a territory. The first roller coaster began operation on Coney Island and William Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." How's that for decisiveness!
Check back tomorrow as I will post a poem from Moth at the Window, "Reflections on a New Year's Eve".
Tell me your thoughts for the new year. Do you have plans? Resolutions? Changes to make?
Tell me your thoughts for the new year. Do you have plans? Resolutions? Changes to make?
wait -- Alaska wasn't made a state until the 1950's, do you mean that it became an American territory?
ReplyDeleteYes Ann you are absolutely correct. Alaska became a territory in 1884.
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