Easter Time with the NortonsFor Easter, it was our family tradition to get new clothes. My grandmother liked to dress Mariah and me in matching dresses, perhaps in different colors. This particular Easter my cousins and next door neighbor joined us for these images. ---------------------------------------- |
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| These photos were made in front of my childhood home on Highway 20 in Rockdale County Georgia. At this time the porch was still screened, having later been changed into a sunroom. In the photo on left: Janet Laird, Judy Laird and Pat Laird (Uncle Pete and Aunt Gladys' daughters), Mariah Kiser (my mother's half-sister), and me. The photo on right, back row: me, Vic Davis (next door neighbor) Dennis Norton (my brother), Jimmy Laird (Uncle Pete and Aunt Gladys' son). Front row: Pat Laird, Mariah Kiser, Janet Laird, and Judy Laird. The woman in the background is either Aunt Gladys or my mother, Betty Laird Norton. If you see glasses on her, then it is Aunt Gladys. I note I am wearing orthopedic shoes, which were bought for me when I was in the third grade, so that defines the date of these photos. I expect Aunt Gladys made her daughters' dresses, as she usually did. She was known to stay up all night finishing dresses for the girls to wear the next day. | |
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| Another shot of the girls: Mariah Kiser, Pat Laird and me on the back row, and Janet Laird and Judy Laird on the front row. The woman in the background here looks more like my mother. Mariah Kiser, in the right photo, is sitting in our living room on the green chair I remember so well. A similar picture of me was made, too. | |
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In this photo, Dennis Norton, Merle Laird Kiser, me, and Mariah Kiser. |
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