These
were from a 1928 book, "My Pets at The Maples"
by my great-aunt Eva drawing and musing about her
childhood animals in the 1890s. They included her brother/my grandfather's
Borzoi (then called Russian Wolfhound) named Vodka, her pet raccoon who
tried to ride him, her ponies, dogs, cats and assorted birds. The idyll of
this rural reminisce of a Tennessee farm at the turn of the previous
century was frequently broken by sad ends
to the smaller pets, but overall, what a fun childhood she experienced...
to the smaller pets, but overall, what a fun childhood she experienced...
This is the home in which my grandfather and his sister grew up. In the
typical yin-yang of Southern Gothic, it burned to the ground the night
his wife/my grandmother gave birth to their first child...
* http://fastfilm1.blogspot.com/2010/03/adventurous-relations.html
** http://fastfilm1.blogspot.com/2011/03/grandmothered-tales.html
***http://fastfilm1.blogspot.com/2010/11/tennessee-death-trip.html