It looks as though an "everyday" blog has become a once in a while thing....such is life. Here is an old photo of me in 1955, I believe.

Wide-eyed, about 11, in my winter coat that reminded me of "Heidi", and one of the infamous perms that were part and parcel of my pre-teen years. How funny that these photos have come back into fashion....used to be 25 cents to get them done.

Another family heard from!

Just for a change, and because I am thinking of all the Liningtons today, Peter found me a photo of his Mother Cora at the Breezy Point Surf Club in Rockaway, NY, at the mouth of NY Harbor in 1938 or 1939.
From the left, around the umbrella, is an unknown friend, then Cora, nee Smith, then her friend Doris Hanenberg Lynch, an attendant at Mother and Dad's wedding in 1940, 4th is Erna Linington Evans, (Joe's older sister), and last, is Alva "Wu" Linington Persike. Oh, those happy days at Breezy Point!

A month later? Really?

Well, here I return, almost a month since my last posting, but things have been a bit busy for us. 

These beautiful ladies are the Myers girls, my father's mother and her 3 sisters. from the top center Jude, then my grandmother, Jane Myers Dayton, then Sister Babe, and sister Beatrice Myers Rogers. Wouldn't you have liked to know them then? I can see where the curly hair was from! I need to do more research on them, but Aunt Bea's home in Orange County, NY was turned into a community college some years ago. Judy and I have fond memories of a great formal dinner there, some 60 years ago. 

Monday, September 19, 2011

This envelope is yielding some interesting gems.....this is one of them.
Typed (!!) on the back is "The 'Myers Girls' at the Winchester Va Apple Blossom Festival, May 1949"
I know that these lovely ladies are my paternal grandmother, Jane Myers Dayton, in the middle, her sister Beatrice Myers Rogers, is on the left, and her younger sister, "Babe" is on the right. I know that Babe's maiden name was Myers, but I'm not remembering what her married name was. I know we went to Thanksgiving Dinner at her lovely home, and she had a daughter named Rosamund. I don't know if great-aunt Bea had any children, and I believe that she was married to a lawyer....one of them was, anyway. Time to dig out the family tree and see if I can unearth any more info.
Jane was born in 1871, I was named for her, with the a and e in my name moved to make Jean, and I have her engagement ring, now more than 110 years old.
She was a delightful, interesting person, who introduced us to her version of Waldorf Salad, always called Apple and Celery Salad in her home. We still have it every Thanksgiving. I wonder what those marvelous grins were about, and who picked those hats??! Gram's looks as if it is about to fall off her head!

A new view, and a bonus photo

My sister Judy had improved on the earlier photo of our Dad that I posted, and sent along one of him with his older brother, Richard.....here they are!

Saturday, 9/17/11

I tried and failed to get a video on the blog, so back to photos. I have a large manila envelope beside me with photos from the Dayton side of the family, and have randomly chosen....one of my Grandmother, Jane Myers Dayton, in the white hat and lighter swim suit on the right, on the East Coast Oak Beach. There is no date on the photo, but it looks to me that my Dad, Val, and his brother, Richard, are seated on the sand in the front, right, and middle. The curly hair identifies them for me. Dad looks about 5 or 6, making it around 1908 or 1909.  That hat on the left is a doozy, no? Not sure who the other ladies are at all, sadly.

September 15, 2011....halfway through September?

I am getting old....the days are flying by. We are very busy here in Ashland, and the season goes on through early November, but there is a "Fall" feeling to the air, and the evenings are cooling down to great sleeping temperatures. A few trees are starting their color change, which reminds us that Summer is almost over.
Here's a photo from 1928

taken in Santa Monica, CA. My grandfather, Edmond Dayton is on the left, grandmother Jane Myers Dayton on the right. No idea of the identity of the center couple....or the cute doggie!
When I think of my grandparents in CA in the late 1920s, almost 100 years ago, it is a bit mind-boggling. The trip alone must have taken more than a week, and could have been harrowing. They must have been in their 50s, and I love my Gram's fun dress! She's the only one who looks like she might enjoy a day at the beach!