Lovely photo of a great house. Dave
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:48 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- 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.
