My Trails into the Past

This is my fourth year working on this year-long 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. I don’t have a lot of photos taken in the kitchen, but that was where everyone in our family hung out. It was a big room, with a cooktop island in the center. A large table to hold eight people on one side and knotty pine cabinets on the other side. Here is the kitchen side. We were celebrating a birthday. A banner can be partially seen hanging above the island. The countertops were red Formica, the stove was electric, and we had a portable dishwasher in the center. The dining side had vinyl wallpaper with white bricks. Lots of doodads hung on the walls. I think a lot of these items were found by my mother at antique and junk stores. You can see the café curtains hanging in the corner win...