A Story From Uncle James

Uncle James tells a story about this old house and I did this digital scrapbook page about the story.

Football

My Uncle James when he played football in high school. This digital layout of his football photos was fun to do.

52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History - Week #7 - Barbies For Christmas

52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History by Amy Coffin is a series of weekly blogging prompts (one for each week of 2011) that invite genealogists and others to record memories and insights about their own lives for future descendants.

52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History - Week #7 - Toys. What was your favorite childhood toy? Is it still being made in some form today?



This photo shows our first Christmas in Spartanburg, SC in 1968. We had a brand new split level house and our backyard connected to my maternal Grandparent's backyard. My Uncle James sits with us on the couch holding our cousin, Kenneth. Kenneth was born in July 1967 so he nearly 1 1/2 yrs old. During this Christmas we each got our Barbie dolls. Much later we got Ken Barbie dolls but that was it. So we only had those 2 Barbi dolls each and I still have both mine. We would play for hours with our Barbie dolls. We loved them! You can see I'm holding mine and Melinda is holding hers.

Glenn And James Water Skiing At Lake Bowen

Lake Bowen, New Prospect, SC was built 1959-1960. It's been a very important thing in the life of our family. Here is one of the earliest photos of the lake with Uncle Glenn on the right instructing 13 year old Uncle James on the left. They both became expert water skiers. I wanted to scrapbook this earliest photo of them skiing. I hope to get more photos of them skiing and do some more scrapbook layouts.

Hillbilly Day

From left to right: Glenn, Eleanor (my Mom), Mabel Copeland Barton (their cousin)
Front, left to right: James and Judy