Books, Models, and Photographs

We went to 10:30 Church this morning where Karen Dunlop, President, Great Plains United Methodist Women, provided the sermon based on Angle House, a UMW project in Tanzania. We left during the song after her message to get back to Brookdale for Dinner. While eating we saw Jim and asked him to "anchor" the bookshelf that we put up yesterday and I had already put my 7, 5-year Diaries and annual Journals since age 50 on the shelves. He was over soon after and did the job. It was his turn to be the "duty officer" here this weekend. After the shelves were duly anchored, I loaded them up with additional models. It appears that we will have to put many on the Auction or bring up additional shelving. 

While continue to work with my books and models, Elaine is going through old photographs and determining how to best assure they will be passed on for future enjoyment. They are much move valuable and precious than any of the plastic models we have collected and enjoyed. This is Elaine's Mother Flora's family picture. She is the little girl at the right end of the 3 in the front row. This was the Charles Henry and Anna Louise Koch Family. The picture was taken here in Seward in 1905 to the best of our knowledge. It was an interesting farm family of 9 girls and 1 boy with another girl lost in childhood. Elaine was the recipient of the "Koch bench" on which several of the girls sat to eat at the table. The bench was recently passed on to our Granddaughter and maybe a copy of the original picture should be with the bench.