Stone Cottage
From l., Maude Inness, Jake Hartrampf Ruth J. Meade B. Gertrude I. Rufus T. Helen F. Dr. Dann Delos Thomas
front: JLB (my grandmother) kneeling, Fred B. Edna I. Ray Anderson, Helen R. Edward I , in front.
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There is part of a series from a whole album of photos that belonged to my Grandfather called "Stone's Cottage." What was Stone's Cottage? I don't know. The pictures are charming snapshots of life for young professionals in the early 1900s.
Most of the ladies were new schoolteachers. Most of the men were bankers and lawyers. My grandfather posed, lit , shot and developed the photographs, so he is rarely portrayed here.
It is his eye through which we see.
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This is a series of photographs from around 1910 staged and shot by my grandfather. My grandmother is crouching on the left. They had just met. Nothing like fooling around with your friends. I found this series of photo that I am calling "Stone Cottage" after my mother died. A lot of sleuthing around on flickr and other photo archives helped me to place the photos a bit better in time and place. My Grandfather died when I was very young. Studying his albums has allowed me to know him as a person and an artist. What a wonderful gift.
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"Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead."
~Neil Gaiman
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"Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge - none of that tells us very much."
~Paul Auster
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Stone Cottage
From l., Maude Inness, Jake Hartrampf Ruth J. Meade B. Gertrude I. Rufus T. Helen F. Dr. Dann Delos Thomas
front: JLB (my grandmother) kneeling, Fred B. Edna I. Ray Anderson, Helen R. Edward I , in front.
**
There is part of a series from a whole album of photos that belonged to my Grandfather called "Stone's Cottage." What was Stone's Cottage? I don't know. The pictures are charming snapshots of life for young professionals in the early 1900s.
Most of the ladies were new schoolteachers. Most of the men were bankers and lawyers. My grandfather posed, lit , shot and developed the photographs, so he is rarely portrayed here.
It is his eye through which we see.
*
This is a series of photographs from around 1910 staged and shot by my grandfather. My grandmother is crouching on the left. They had just met. Nothing like fooling around with your friends. I found this series of photo that I am calling "Stone Cottage" after my mother died. A lot of sleuthing around on flickr and other photo archives helped me to place the photos a bit better in time and place. My Grandfather died when I was very young. Studying his albums has allowed me to know him as a person and an artist. What a wonderful gift.
*
"Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead."
~Neil Gaiman
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"Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge - none of that tells us very much."
~Paul Auster
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