a look back in time

rita and i went into chester today for business and while there helped mother clean out some of her basement in doing so found a very interesting large  say two feet by three feet  album full of old i mean old photos  actually not photos but pictures that some one cut out of newspapers from 1918  the new york times and chicago tribune etc  and glued in this album   who would do such a thing  well my first guess is my great grandmother elizabeth who lived a mile from where i sit and who recieved these papers on a weekly or monthly schedule   my take is this  she kept these pictures  and looked at them  so she could feel like she was there there are a lot of pictures of stylish ladies posing for a camera at social events in new york  also lots of political figures from around the world, i have refinished the table that she and great grand dad jimmy used to sit at and by the kerosene lamp would read these papers   and dream,  almost a hundred years ago   ,  as crazy as it sounds  there are times  maybe when theblizzard hits  so hard it takes your breath away  or when  that melancholy gloaming  crosses the fields on a late fall    evening, i can feel the bond of  the prarie       i am off to milk the chickens  good night