The family album

What came after

The rest doesn't need telling. It needs seeing.

Love

Awaiting photograph
Edward & Eileen, young — a confirmed one
Names and a date will do.
Awaiting photograph
Robert & Donna together, any year
Names and a date will do.

Joy

An extended family of about thirty people of all ages seated together on a grassy slope beneath tall trees.
Kingston, May 2003 — the whole family in one frame.
A white sweatshirt embroidered My Grandchildren with twelve names and twelve small stitched faces.
Twelve. Andrew, Patrick, Matthew · Lee, Justine, Bobbi-Sue, Melissa · Brian, Greg, Michael, Laura, Eric.
Two older men sitting in lawn chairs on a porch in summer clothes.
Robert, right, and his older brother Ted.
Awaiting photograph
Ted, Reg & Diane as children — ideally with Robert
Four kids grew up in that house. So far we can only see one.
Awaiting photograph
The house itself — the pool, the garden, a holiday table
Names and a date will do.

Sport

“Family trait to be a little obsessed with exercise!”

— Sandra, his daughter
A laughing man in a Detroit Tigers cap on porch steps with two small boys in matching caps.
Robert with Brian and Greg, his first two grandsons — matching Tigers caps.
Photo on file
Judy, athletic — being prepared for the web
Names and a date will do.
Awaiting photograph
Brenda — one athletic or active photo
Names and a date will do.
Awaiting photograph
Sandra — one athletic or active photo
Names and a date will do.
Awaiting photograph
Cheryl — one athletic or active photo
Names and a date will do.
Awaiting photograph
Brian & Greg at St. Patrick’s — same school, same fields, a generation later
The closing generation of the thread.

The last picture

A 1970s wedding group: bride and groom flanked by two older couples in formal dress.
20 May 1978 — Brenda and George's wedding. The only photograph we have with three generations of the family standing together. Left to right: Robert, Donna, Brenda, George, Eileen, Edward, and Donna's parents Norbertha and William Strevel.