The
story behind this picture?
Mom
has written a three part story on Center Lisle and Baker history there:
And
also a story about visiting the 1939 World’s Fair in NYC:
http://taylorbakercousins.blogspot.com/2011/08/my-first-television-viewing-by-aunt-cb.html
Actual date of Photo? August 27th, 1939
See below for Mom's write up!
Top of the hill and Grandma's! Grandma's farm or
Adin's farm was the best place in the world to us. We loved it and both of
them!
Adin was wonderful to us. He took us with him as he
worked at his farm chores, we 'helped' cut hay, clean out springs in the
pasture, buzz wood, clean the 'drops'--in my mind's eye, I can still see him
hunkered down, cigarette held between two fingers, as he told us stories about
his 'wife with the traveling wart' or some such crazy story.
Mid August,
1939, I was visiting Grandma and Adin in Center Lisle. Early one morning, I
crept out to see the animals in Adin’s barn, and heard a strange noise coming
from one of the side pens. I saw a strange sight, a cow lying down and
bellowing.
Thinking it funny for her to be inside rather than
out with the others in the pasture, I squatted on my haunches to watch and saw
a miracle born—a little red and white calf! As the mother stood licking her
baby, I realized that Adin was also squatting beside me. 'Wow', I exclaimed. He
just looked at me and said, 'Don't tell your grandmother.' That was the birth
of the calf named Lucille.
August 26th, 1939 was the date we began our big trip—we
were on our way to visit the New York World’s Fair. We drove as far as Grandma
Baker’s to spend the night.
The next day we left early to drive on through the
Poconos, but not before Daddy took a picture of me with ‘my’ calf—the one I’d
seen born a week or two before, my Lucille!
