Happy Easter Everyone! This year my sister Susan and I will be spending Easter in sunny Florida, with temperatures in the low 80s. Meanwhile, back in Denver, although the weather there is nicer today, a late spring snowstorm this past Friday caused the Colorado Rockies to postpone their game, guaranteeing there would be no Rockies loss that night (they lost yesterday, instead). In any case, this year I am featuring two Easter photos from 1957, which I know I have used before, but to be honest, I do not have many photographs taken on that holiday. I suppose I could have gone around looking for a giant Easter bunny to photograph, but on the other hand, I am old now, and so the hell with it. The photograph on the left was taken of my parents Nelson and Mary in the kitchen of our house in the South Side Brainerd neighborhood of Chicago as they were preparing Easter dinner for the whole family.
The photograph on the right is of my mother posing in the dining room of our house that Easter. My father was drafted into the army in 1943 and served as a dentist on Okinawa. While he was overseas, my mother and sister lived with her parents, and when my father came back after the war in 1947, they all continued to live with my grandparents until they bought the house in Brainerd in 1949. And my mother just loved that house and hated leaving it even to go on vacation. And I think you can tell that just from looking at that photo. In any case, I hope everyone out there has a nice Easter with their family and friends, just like that gathering back in 1957. Enjoy!
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