On the Front Porch: May 1971

Wendy Jean with her Aunt Jean, her Uncle John

and her new cousin, Julie

On the Front Porch, May 1971

     One of the many ideas I keep tossing around is compiling a photo book of pictures taken on the front porch of Grandma and Gran's house.  The earliest front porch photos I have show the original builders and owners of the home (The Sam P. Smith Family) and the last ones I have show all of  us gathered on the porch the week that Grandma died in August of 2008.  Birthdays, graduations, homecomings, departures - I lived a lot of it and I am still amazed at how many life events revolved around that porch.  

    This is the first photo of me on my grandparents front porch.  I was about eleven days old.  My cousin, Wendy, who was two and half at the time, was in for a big adjustment.  She had been the only child and grandchild in Tennessee up until that point and had therefore been the focus of her grandparents' and mother's and aunt and uncle's attention. And now?  Well, now she was going to have to share.