An Easter Excursion to the Appomattox
Surrender Grounds
Mother had a camera, a little black Brownie box camera. She
probably got it of a Christmas and used it during her teenage years. During the
hard times of beginning a family, film could not be afforded, so there are few
pictures from my childhood. I used it when I began to record what I was doing
as a teenager. One night it got crushed when my convertible top mechanism
caught it. But there are lots of mom’s and my pictures to remember the camera
by.
One thing that mama liked to do was to collect and dry some
foliage as a souvenir of an event. These dried vegetation pieces, preserved in
an envelope, are 65 years old; yet are still a colorful reminder of an Easter
excursion to the Appomattox surrender grounds.
Clowning on a cannon. Left: Gordon, Iris, Shirley, and
Lewis. Right Unknown couple, Shirley, and Iris.