Old Family Photos

Circa 1944: From left, Grandma Bohannon, Great Grandma Mims, Inez Culpepper (holding her son Billy), my Mom--Kathryn Bohannon, Uncle Richard and Aunt Gail (kneeling in front).

My great aunt, Inez Culpepper, and cousin, Sue Culpepper, drive up from Dublin, Georgia, to visit me and Mama. Sue is married to Billy Culpepper, the baby in Aunt Inez's arms in the photo above. Inez, at 83, is as feisty and irreverent as ever! If she reads this, she'll call me an "old turd" (or worse!) for writing it. My nephew, Donnie McGuire, stops by to visit on a break from his studies at Georgia Southern. We look at old and older family photos of bare-footed children standing on dirt roads, trying to identify the kids in the pictures. Most of them are my Mom and her many, many cousins and aunts and uncles.

It'll be two years (at least) before I see Inez, Sue or Donnie again. They're okay with that. In the meantime, I've downloaded hundreds of new and old family photos--and I'll travel through the pictures to visit family amongst the dirt roads and Piney woods of South Georgia.