I found this large photo album at an antique shop a year or two ago at a thrift shop called City Thrift. It sat in my living room along with a bunch of other old photo albums I had and I had forgotten that it had photos in it as the others were all empty. […]
Month: August 2015
Ira Monroe Dooley’s Dog Tag
This dog tag was part of my military collection. The tag belonged to a man named Ira Monroe Dooley (1893-1963). He served in both World War I and World War II To find its family, I used both Ancestry.com and Facebook on 1 August 2015. I was able to locate one of his great-grandsons in […]
Billie McCall Gray’s Book of Poems
I found an old address book at Second Time Around Flea Market in the Summer of 2014. It had been repurposed in the 1970s by an older woman named Billie McCall Gray into a book filled with typed and handwritten poems and writings, along with clippings, drawings, and a few pieces of mail. I attempted […]