This is the only other photo on the sheet of paper with photos glued to it (mentioned here and here) that hasn’t been posted previously. I would not have recognized the person seated on the running board as Mom (Florence) were it not for the context of the school assignment. I’m not at all sure who the person with her is. I kind of think it might be her grandmother, Sarah Hammell. If it is, this is certainly an unusual outfit for her.
If those identifications are correct, I imagine the photo was taken by Great-Grandpa John Hammell.
It’s difficult to say for sure, but that looks like lava beds behind the car. (If we had the entire photo and not Mom’s cropped version, that might be clearer.) If these are the lava beds on McKenzie Pass, possibly Mom and the Hammells drove there during one of the latter’s camping trips at Lost Creek/Limberlost. But I’m getting pretty far out on a limb with that speculation.
Since some have asked about this page of photos and the school assignment it was apparently prepared for, I’ll show you the entire sheet, and also the teacher’s note on the back.
Since Mom gives her age as 16 in one of the photos on the sheet (and therefore she was at least 16 when doing this assignment), I think this must have been a high school assignment, not one at Tallman School.
Here is the sheet of paper with photos glued to it. There was a second sheet of photos like this that was stuffed into the front of Mom’s photo album. I can’t be certain, but possibly it was also part of this assignment originally. It also had the title “Pictures” on it as you can see this one does:
Here are the teacher’s comments that are on the back of this sheet:
I assume the “S” is her grade on the assignment. In case you can’t make out all of the teacher’s note, I’ll transcribe it here:
Very interesting — The thought, and arrangement is splendid, but your punctuation needs attention. The illustrations add much to it. I think your conclusion is splendid, and I like the bits of verse with which you start your chapters.
I assume the reference to “illustrations” refers to this sheet of photos (and possibly the other one if they were both part of this assignment).
I so wish we had the text part of the assignment that went with these. I wish I could see the “bits of verse” with which she started her chapters. Did she write them herself? Was she something of a poet like her father, and we didn’t ever know (at least I didn’t). I know she picked up her father’s love of poetry. I can still hear in my memory the poems from Childcraft Mom used to read Dan and me at bedtime. “O the raggedy man! He works fer pa; An’ he’s the goodest man ever you saw! …” (James Whitcomb Riley). It wasn’t just the poems, but the way she read them. But I digress…
Loved your last paragraph, Lloyd. Oh, so true…in her most humble way….she had such depth. Brought tears to my eyes.
Thank for sharing this!!
Thanks, Lloyd, for the Raggedy Man reference. That warm moment, which I also exerienced, had slipped from my memory.
This assignment has a similarity to the large book of hers, which I once had and passed on, with clippings of things she liked, advertisements and such, pasted in. Actually, I’d love to see that book again if it is still around.
The scrapbook doesn’t ring a bell as being something I’ve come across at all recently. But I’ll keep an eye out.
Oh wow, Lloyd! I totally agree. I wish we could see the whole assignment and so remember the poetry from Childcraft! “Ain’t he a nice old Raggedy man? Raggedy,raggedy, raggedy man.”
Wonderful memories, Lloyd! This all is a great treasure. Thank you!
Let me add my thanks as well. I can’t read the Raggedy Man without hearing Mom’s voice, nor can I read it with a dry eye.