Showing posts with label Olive Williams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olive Williams. Show all posts

Friday, November 18, 2011

Friday Funny: Battlefields

Friday Funny is a daily prompt at Geneabloggers that asks us to post something genealogy-related that makes us laugh or smile.

This is probably funny only to me and my sister.  For years we’ve laughed at this photo of one of our many summer vacations in which we toured a Civil War battlefield in Virginia.  I was my sulking, moody teenager-self that day in Manassas, and Momma was probably tired of waiting for Daddy to line up the happy picture. 

Stonewall Jackson monument
at Manassas
Wendy and her mother probably 1967 or 1968

What elevated this painful little memory into a candidate for a Friday Funny was finding this next photo in my Aunt Velma’s scrapbook.  She was visiting her friend Olive whose family took them to Gettysburg in August 1925.

Maybe Velma's friend Olive
and Unknown
Gettysburg Battlefield
August 1925


Civil War Battlefields – a metaphor for teenage angst?