Random Beginnings.

I have just started this project, which is a big one. So the first few postings are going to be a bit random. Eventually, I would like to group the pictures together somehow, by person, or by time, not sure what sort of organization is going to work. I will just have to figure it out as I go.

Mike is retouching a lot of the photos digitally, he is finding details in the photos that are really difficult to see in the originals.

This is Gordon Cushman (my Grandfather) and his Sister, Barbara in Frenchman's Bay, Maine in July 1928. There are a series of these photos, a few small and one large that was color treated, which was the thing to do at the time. There isn't a lot of color still visible in the photo, but Mike was able to pull it out digitally.

This is Gordon Cushman in 1931, age 11. I adore this picture because the face is so familiar to me, like the familiar face and expression of my Grandfather on a little boy. Plus he was such a snazzy dresser.

This is Ida Buckley, my Great Grandmother (Gordon Cushman's Mom). She is 18 or 19 in this picture, I have to find out her birthday, but I am guessing this would be between 1910 to 1915.

This is Frank Cushman, my Great grandfather. I need to find his birthday too, but I would guess this picture to be from the late 1880's.

This is Frank Cushman on a log jam on the Connecticut River, near Dartmouth where he was studying in 1911.
This is my Grandmother, Nancy Bone in 1939, at age 19. She is with Dorthy, a childhood friend from her neighborhood. I like the picture because my Gram is being silly, and because she is under a sign promoting "Legal Beverages".
This is my Grandmother, Nancy Bone serving as Maid of Honor at Barbara Cushman's wedding. My Grandfather was overseas in WW2 at this time. The wedding announcement has lots of details, as well as flowery descriptions of the event. Click on the announcement to read it.


AND FROM THE 70's

I like this picture of my brother Jeff because 1. it looks just like my son Sullivan. 2. the back yard of our house on Falvey Street is oddly bare and 3. There is a giant Mobile sign over his head, as though its a sign of his future career in geology and the oil industry.

This has always been my favorite picture of Jeff as a kid, for as long as I can recall. I still think B&W is the way to go with people, especially kids, you get to see the expression of the person without being distracted by the colors in the clothing or the surrounding. The photo is from May of 1976, when Jeff was almost 3.

And one of me, doing what I do best, sleeping in an awkward position. This photo looks just like Sullivan too, only with longer lighter hair.