I'm not really sure that this is a PESO, but I took it and might as well share. But first there's always a story, even if sometimes I don't feel like telling it, well today I feel like it.
Today has been a rather strange day. I spent the morning in Probate Court in the City of Stamford Connecticut.. My great grandfather died in 1963. However his legacy lives on at least for a few more months. He created a trust so he'd be remembered. He did a lot of other things as well. He started out in life with relatively little, with little formal education, finishing only up to 3rd grade, but apparently he was a voracious reader. After a few years working he managed to get admitted to a business college and received a BA in General Business, with very high grades, in the top 10% of his class based on the documents I've seen. A partial list of his accomplishments included building, along with his 6 brothers, a chain of sporting goods stores, founding a bank, (that is now part of Bank of America), and when he retired from banking starting a real estate business, don't know exactly how old he was, but he managed his own properties until he died at 93. I think one of his proudest accomplishments was teaching his wife to read, they were both born in the 1870's and school wasn't always an option, especially for farm kids. He truly worshiped education. He put my grandfather through Yale University. My grandfather died fairly young age and my great grandfather stepped in to make sure that my father and his 4 sisters each received the best educations that money could buy. I learned most of this later, he died when I was 10, and all I personally remember about him was a kindly old gentleman who showered his two great grandsons with more toys than my parents could ever have afforded. Well to get to the reason for this PESO, the Trust has had very little money in it for quite a number of years now and the State is finally allowing it to be dissolved. After lawyers fees there will be hardly a pittance for the 10 or so people still receiving some income from it. Still I had to be there as a representative for my cousins, and my two surviving aunts. After the court was finished I made my way to the location of my great grandfathers house, I hadn't been there since shortly after my great grandmother died, only 5 years after her husband. It had been sold and the money added to the trust and the family was cleaning it out. My reason for going now was that I doubt that I'll ever need or want to go back and I decided to shoot a couple of pictures for anyone in the family who might care. I always remembered the place as being huge, but then I was very small, well it's still huge. So here it is, My Great Grandfather's house. In one of the richest neighborhoods, in one of the richest cities in the richest county in either the richest or second richest states in the USA, (though when my great grandfather was alive that wasn't the case, fairly wealthy but not what it is today). You'd think the current owners would take better care of it. http://www.mindspring.com/~happydogsoftware/PESO%20--%20mygreatgrandfathershouse.html Memory can be a funny thing. After making my photos I was suddenly that 10 year old boy who had just been told my great grandfather had died. Equipment: Pentax *ist-Ds/smc Pentax A 28mm f2.8 As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
