Relatively Speaking

This is the address found inside Aunt Aida’s Diary. I assume that is where she lived in New York City. I thought it would be interesting to see the location on a map and to see the distance from Eldred to New York City.

Number 6 bend in the river.

Rough water under the bridge

This is the back of the Ainsworth Bank Postcard. It is a letter from Verna to her brother Irwin Briggs, my grandpa.

Here are a couple photos of Aunt Aida Mom sent me. Aida went to France, and my guess is that these photos are her on the ship either going there or coming back.

There was major flooding one year and Grandpa Briggs took some great photos.

They built a new bridge and here are a few photos that my grandfather, Irwin Briggs took. They used dynamite to blast through the mountain to get stone to build road 97, an important through road to many towns. The first two photos show some of that dynamite.

“Our good friend Mr. Deats, had much self taught knowledge in scientific things. He took our family near there after the dust was settled, and we found many very interesting fossils! There were fossils of narrow tree trunks as I can remember; other things too probably.  Some of the slabs were 12″ or more long.  We had quite a few of them.  About an inch or 2 thick.” Mary (Briggs) Austin

The new bridge going up.