Peter: Very nice photo and a very interesting story. Cheers, Christine
-----Original Message----- >From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Mar 18, 2008 11:02 PM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: PESO -- My Great Grandfather's House > >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. -- 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.
