Here is a group of photos, undated, but I'd guess 1926. My father Elwood James Smith was born on October 4, 1925. In these photos, he's a toddler, spending time with his Aunt Ruth, who was only 5 years older.
I'm not sure who all these folks are, but the young man on the left is most certainly Joe Bierbaum, Alice's younger brother. He caught a fish on the same day. Is that Ruth again on the "tricycle," front right?
I assume that Bobbie is either a cousin or a neighbor.
Is this the lake in Piscataway, NJ, I always heard about from my father? The land around it had long been developed by the time I came along, but I heard about summers spent at "the lake." I went to Rutgers University in the late 1980s and lived and drove near where the lake and the house had once been—or so I thought; Daddy's directions were never very clear—and also near the cemetery where Grandma and Grandpa Smith are buried. Piscataway and New Brunswick were almost completely citified by then, yet I had a sense of what an open, rural place it had been 50 or 60 years before.
-L
Liz,
ReplyDeleteThat is Lake Nelson that they are at. The group picture is Uncle Joe, Aunt Anne, Uncle Jim, Great Grandma Bierbaum, Aunt Helen, and the kids are Aunt Ruth between cousin Bobbie and Anita. Also, that is your father with cousin Anita not Ruth.