When Barb and I painted her room a couple months ago, she redecorated and put this over her bed. I said, Beautiful Barb, flea market? Thrift shop? Pier One Imports? No, she made it from scratch. I always say to myself that if I had a photo of everything that our sister has created from hand, it would fill up the whole family web site. On top of that, many of the very old great group photos of the family were orchestrated by Barb. One of my favorite pieces of work was the quilt that she made for her daughter Belindas 30th birthday. There was a square symbolically representing a different part of of her life.
When I posted the photo of aunt Carol helping Brenda fix her dress in Photos That Make You Think (Sept 08) I was informed that Barb had indeed sewn all the dresses that her four sisters wore to her wedding.
I thought that to be pretty amazing. Does anybody remember when Mom had the Westfield Sewing Center and we had an eloborate Fashion Show one Saturday evening at the store? What a huge success that was! It was truly moms magical moment as reluctant business owner. Barb had allot to do with the dresses that went down the makeshift fashion aisle. In this months Photos you can see Barb hanging around with her buds. You don’t wanna mess with that crew.
A correction
This woman was NOT our Grandmother as I had listed. It was one of our Grandmas FIVE sisters and I am not sure which one.
Also if you remember another old family friend: Gary Zazworski passed away last month from throat cancer. 43.
Migrant Worker California 1930 with her 7 kids.
Coffee is my drug of choice and most times in New York I end up at Borders Book store above Penn Station. Everybody has their laptops open in the Cafe. It’s been the end of the World financially here in USA. The buzz right now The Senate has begun voting on $700 billion rescue package for Wall Street aimed a preventing a credit crisis from plunging the nation into a recession. I think this is allot of money. I’m glad we have it in our back pocket for this emergency.
God help us. And I think he will. A recession .maybe a depression .and I don’t think there are many alive who remember the first real tragic depression of 1929. After the panic of 1929, and during the first 10 months of 1930, 744 US banks failed. (In all, 9,000 banks failed during the 1930s). By 1933, depositors had lost $140 billion in deposits.
When I was a kid I remember Moms dad telling me how GOOD the depression was, because people had to help each other. They had to get off their asses to survive. Sounds like something this country needs right now.
Maybe we can rediscover the TRUE meaning of LOVE ONE ANOTHER. It seems that through the toughest times we pull together and get through it. New York City changed after 9/11 seven years ago. People actually had manners and we all helped each other. It didnt take long to forget though. History should be a lesson to us all, thats why we teach it to our children.
