Rescued Treasures...

#NHBPM #HAWMC Day 21 Prompt: Ekphrasis post. Ekphrasis (writing about another art form) – Find a Flickr Image in Creative Commons that inspires you in some way (positively or negatively) and free write about it. Give yourself exactly 15 minutes to write without stopping. Don’t think! Brave bonus: Publish to your blog without editing! (You can include a disclaimer)

Below are photos I have rescued from TARPON SPRINGS, FLORIDA and there are over one hundred all together. I chose these for today's blog post...
Faded photographs, rescued treasures. I wonder what would have become of these treasures if I had not spoken up and asked to take them home with me. The small shed like building they were currently housed in with so much trash and a few other likely goodies were going to be taken to the dump. So many books were mildewed and old clothing strewn about, broken glass from picture frames that would have hung upon walls behind couches in living rooms at one point. So sad to see these lovely pieces of time frozen among them all. 
I was given the green light to bring the photo album home. I was elated! To me this was so important and I cannot understand how it meant nothing to others, never will understand. 
So many questions swirled in my head. Who are these people in the photos? Where were the taken?  I saw a few place names and researched those. MOUNT MAJOR - That is in New Hampshire. The SECOND ADVENT Campground I am not familiar with. This was a goldmine and I wanted to get it returned to some family member of the whoever was in these photos as soon as possible. I had visions of a website, putting the photos up and circulating them for all to see in the hopes of reaching a relative of someone in the photos. 
I have had the recent blessing of reuniting a set of most awesome photos with relatives not long ago. It gives me a wonderful feeling to do that. They are all some folks have to their family and family history. We all, of most of us, have this desire to know where we come from, who do we look like in our families, who is related to who and the list goes on....
Maybe I can reunite them this Christmas...a gift for someone...That would make my day<3 

Postcard Below addressed to the MURPHY FAMILY of PITTSFIELD, NH from CHAS ROGERS. 

 VERY INTERESTING HOUSE BELOW...My personal guess is that it was Very near water and therefore built up on stilted foundation to keep from being flooded during storm weather.

 PHOTO TO LEFT TAKEN AT MOUNT MAJOR, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Mount Major is a mountain located in Alton, New Hampshire, south of Lake Winnipesaukee 

LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE MOUNT MAJOR

PHOTO ABOVE TOP LEFT: SECOND ADVENT CAMPGROUND ~ UNSURE OF LOCATION.


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