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Days of yesteryear

I don’t have the details, but this photo charmed me. About 1910, Ireland. The little girls are busy playing though it must be winter, the trees are bare. Notice the unpenned chickens.  A shoutout to my 3rd great-mother, Nancy Moore Suddeth, who left Ireland a century before this.

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On a long ago rainy night

St. Louis 1944: I love this photo—the rain-drenched colors, the lit-up theaters, the trolley, the Roy Rogers movie (Lights of Old Santa Fe). Nostalgia, I suppose.

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The Ohio on a fall day

October 28, 6 miles upriver from Louisville at Six Mile Island. Indiana on the right. Downtown Louisville on the left, in the distance. Eric Suddeth photo.

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Oh so long ago

I love the detail on this photo from NYC about 1900. The cabs are lined up, likely waiting for a fare. And the 2 ladies with corsets so tight around their waists I don’t know how they breathed.

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Dawn on Six Mile Island, Ohio River, 6 miles upriver from Louisville. Tuesday morning. Eric Suddeth photo 080222

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Pure gold, I tell you

Looking at a pure golden sunset downriver on the Ohio. Indiana on the right, Kentucky on the left. If you look closely, you can glimpse downtown Louisville’s buildings. Eric Suddeth photo 012922.

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Finding gold

Heading into a golden sundown. Utica Pike, going toward Jeffersonville, Indiana–leaving Utica, Indiana. Eric Suddeth photo 010922. The Ohio River is to the left, just out of sight.

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Time passes

Photo of my grandmother, Mary Gillenwaters Pait, about 1921, standing in front of Kehoe’s Market, Jeffersonville, Indiana. She was expecting her first child. The building and house next door are amazingly still there. My great-grandmother, Louisa Ward Gillenwaters, lived in the house.

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Sunrise on the Ohio

Wednesday, September 14, 2021: Sunrise on the Ohio River, Utica, Indiana–a few miles upriver from Louisville. The clouds are up to mischief! Eric Suddeth photo 091421

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BLUE EVENING

Taken from Miss Ida, Ohio River towboat at Six Mile Island, 6 miles upriver from Louisville, on Saturday evening. Eric Suddeth photos 041721

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