The Picnic

Because I will be out of touch for the next two months, I hope you will understand that I feel you will enjoy this old (1916) photo of my family so I'm publishing one more for this week's Flashback. 

We always got a big kick seeing that these dressed up people had fun eating and drinking and enjoying a road trip and picnic. It explains itself.

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My mother is the baby, and  I have no idea who took this photo. 

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Long Lost Sculpture

My mother submitted photos of me to a library solicitation for consideration in the choosing of a model for a well known sculptor and artist of the times.

Artist: Haynsworth Baldrey - 1885-1946

Collections

Location:   Art & Artist files at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/ National Portrait Gallery Library

DATA:  Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Newspaper clipping (was glued into scrapbook and then later torn out)

He sent this letter with a photo of the finished art

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Back of photo

Fountain Figure

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Haynsworth Baldrey

This is all the biological information about Mr. Baldrey, I could find to date:

Methods

* Printmaking, Graphic Design

* Sculpture, Sculptor

  

Media

* Etching, Etcher

Associations

* National Sculpture Society

  

Some Exhibitions

* National Sculpture Society

* Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

  

Chronology

* Early 20th Century Before 1950

And these are the only photos of his works with some information I have been able to find (without joining a website and paying for more detailed and informative knowledge and enlightenment!

Haynsworth Baldrey (American, 1885-1946). Young Boy, bronze

Young Boy, bronze verdigris bronze figure of child seated on rock, signed in cast "Haynsworth Baldrey 1928,"  21 1/2 in. H.

HAYNSWORTH BALDREY, LISTED NJ, "Flat Brook Valley Winter" Water Color, signed W/ EXHIBITION LABEL

Haynsworth Baldrey (American, 1885-1946). "View of the Washington Monument Looking Down Charles Street, Baltimore" etching, signed "Haynsworth Baldrey" Ir, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in., framed.

Haynsworth Baldrey (American, 1885 to 1946), an oil on canvas painting, winter landscape scene titled verso Rhododendrons Winter, signed lower right H. Baldrey and verso on stretcher and canvas Haynsworth Baldrey and Newton, N.J. 1938.

Haynsworth Baldrey, American, 1885-1946, Baltimore Flower Mart, etching, 6 x 8 in., framed    (no photo)

66 Years Ago

In 1947 I was visiting my grandmother and drawing all sorts of images. At 11 years old, I loved to draw and color.  Thankfully, my mother saved this in my "packet" of photos, report cards, certificates and art. 

Today, I was looking through the packet, getting lots of laughs when reading the teacher comments on the report cards, and came across this drawing. It was on really old and thin paper, looked like plain store wrapping, but the thing that got my attention was the LAMP! I don't know how the pertinent information came to be on the bottom of the drawing, bit it definitely looks like my grandma.

Yes, I have that same old and useful reading lamp right in the cabin living area. It has traveled many miles and had become a part of several homes before becoming now at rest here. It IS the same lamp, I just know it. I remember it being in the home I lived in when I was a teenager. 

Flashback Friday Ancestors-2

Three generations shown here.

James holding my mother after her baptism.

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Flashback Friday Ancestors

One hundred and forty three years ago my maternal great grandparents were married.

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I understand that they were farmers. My grandmother told me so, and she should know. They don't look much like farmers! Their hands do, I think.

Malinda is a pretty name.

 James is the spiritual guardian of my home. 

This must be Sunday because I see Malinda is holding her bible in the crook of her arm.

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Flashback to the 50's

Note saddle shoes and head scarf! We rolled up our jeans then too; and tried to be sultry looking for the camera!

Going square dancing with first true love! We did this every Saturday night. See the family TV set? 

Remembering my wonderful mother here!

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Flashback and Forward

1963 Pop stocking up wood for winter when cabin was still in rough construction.

1969 Pop's grandkids loved to get up to the rafters by climbing the woodpile. The only ceiling where they are sitting is over the bathroom. These are my kids!  How they loved the cabin.

We live here permanently after Pop and Mom died. Note that all laundry is still hung to dry.

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Stuffed Dates

My mom used to make these for the holiday season and I never have, but the memory came to me and I had to bring up the past - again. She had to slice the dates and remove the pits as I used to watch the process. These dates were already pitted, (reamed out, leaving a tubular hole through the middle) but I still had to slice them to stuff with cream cheese. Then I rolled them in a cinnamon-sugar mixture.  

The Pot

I knew my old pot was old, but 86 years old!! WOW.

Club aluminum pots can be found on e-Bay, but they are all newer and hammered aluminum, not plain. The knobs are different and the logo/mark is different. There are plenty of the old 1926 recipe books that go with the entire set on e-bay, but only one of the exact pots is in my home. 

Now that I see what the entire set looks like, I can see several other items that are familiar as I was growing up. My mom must have just brought the one here when the cabin was new. And, worst of all, I'm pretty sure I sent all of the others to Goodwill when I was preparing her house for sale when she was in the skilled nursing care facility. Darn! I never even gave it a thought that they would still be useful. I think they were my grandmother's first and she gave them to Mom. Now one is mine!

My pot is used to make cooked candy,  pecan pie fillings, Bar-B-Q sauce, and some soups. It is very special because things just do not burn and can simmer for hours. It's not a large pot but an extremely important one to me. 

Today I made the barbeque sauce... UM...  YUMMY... it has to age for a week or so, but then will go on baked chicken tenders, pulled beef and pork, and used as a dip for chunks of other meat treats. I "might" even share one or two of the little jars I have filled, with my daughter and a couple of friends. 

See my pot. Oh! and yes, I have the original lid with knob. 

These are my pot bottom marks