The TBR Pile Grows Again!

So… a few books have come into my apartment…  some are “used” some are new.  The new ones are Speaking from Among the Bones (a Flavia mystery) and from a proper book store: The Black House. (gift certificate).  The others were used books.

Most of them will work for RIP if I can hold off that long!

Then there is one other new book.  A friend from California sent me an Amazon gift certificate (think she knows me??).  Kris W., my young “let’s go to the movies” buddy from out west.

Anyway: I’ve been wanting this little book about New Providence (NJ) where I grew up.  I had already known that there were photo’s from the 1800’s  on up of the town.  And that many homes and bldgings I knew still existed there.  So I thought “one day I will get this book” because I love the town I grew up in.  And so when Kris W. sent the gift I sent for the book… it was all I imagines..and more.!

I was looking at all the photo’s and trying to vision the parts of town when they were still dirt roads and recognizing many homes/ buildings when I turned the page.. page 35 to be exact…

There stood 10 young people listed at school guards…

And before my very eyes stood my mother!  I had never seen a photo of her so young!  Only after she had my brother did I see any photo’s.. but she had not changed!

   This is my mother.  A school guard.  Standing in front of the same Elementary school I went to.  I never saw my mother before she was a mom…and with her hair worn down!… my brother looked exactly like her when he was very young!… I wonder what she would think if she were alive to see a photo of herself in a book!…It makes me wish, so much, that I knew information about my mother and father and grandparents.  All I know is my mother was adopted by George and Gertrude Osborn of New Providence…  I will always wish I knew my “history”.. good, bad or indifferent.. I wish I knew.

So… one never knows what will  happen when you open a book to read!