
at Grits and Glamour .
Barb's husband was scheduled for serious surgery on Monday. I hope and pray for Barb, her husband, and her family that everything is going well.
This week I would like to show you a photo that hangs in our guest bathroom. It shows a picture of my paternal family's home that was taken in the early 1870s near Parkman, Maine. In the early 1990s, my father and I went in search of this house; but we only found the rock wall as the house was long gone.
My grandfather is the little boy with his arms folded in the left front of the photo. His mother is seated in the center front. She died shortly after this picture was taken. My grandfather always said that they were very proud of those two twin calves on the right. The rest of the people are assorted relatives, including some Bartons. I was told we were distant relatives of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.