The following memories are quotes from “Reminiscences of Alfred D. Guion, written in 1960 while he was on a four-months “around the world” freighter trip.
The story of my boyhood would not be complete if I failed to mention my sisters and my favorite cousins and playmates – the Duryees – Adele, Nan and Dudley. Dud was my own age, the girls a few years older. Adele, who was three or four years my senior, seemed, at my age, to be old. Their father, whom I called Uncle Eddie, was my mother’s cousin, and although he had perfectly good and respectable parents he turned out to be the black sheep of the family. Alcohol was the cause. In these days we would have regarded his failing as a disease and taken medical means to correct it, but at that time no such charitable view was taken. My mother, who always…
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I’m not really picking a favorite – that would be too hard. But the dog pictured, Grover, whom we had in Fiji certainly was memorable for many good reasons. A fiji hound! He was full of fun – we loved him and he loved us.
This beautiful Rhodesian Ridgeback sat next to me at the Barking Dog Ale House here in Ballard. But, sadly, I overheard the waiter tell Mollie’s owners that from now on dogs will not be allowed to accompany their owners in the restaurant/pub. That is bad news, For me that’s half the reason for going there. Each time I have lunch there I usually see at least one or more interesting well behaved dogs.
Samoyede a British card but I can’t make out the postmark. It’s a British HaPenney Stamp.
Photo credit – Liz Lovick. Orkney Scotland