Picture stories

Photos can be a great trigger for memories. Go through the photo albums with the seniors in your family, even if you already know the names/dates/places of the pictures.

I found this one as a teenager among my mother's mother's photos. It was easy to see that the tallest girl in the photo was Grandma and easy to figure that the other two were her younger sisters Johanna and Alvina. Nothing really to talk about.

But on seeing it Grandma mentioned how much Alvina, the youngest, hated those dresses...because as her big sisters handed theirs down, she had to wear the same dress over and over again for years. Cute story, a little touch of color to go with the photo.