So, another year has gone by and it’s time for another birthday. Amazingly enough, exactly one year later, it is again my turn to write the blog post on my son’s birthday. (He’s 12, OMG!) I think I have the extra day from leap year to thank for this.
Because I don’t think I can top my tribute post from last year and those sentiments still hold true, I’ve decided to dedicate today’s post to him and create a montage of photos from The Commons on Flickr that I think exemplify familial love and affection in all its forms.
Once again, Happy Birthday to my baby.
-Melissa M.
At the Vermont state fair, Rutland from the Library of Congress
Migrant Cotton Picker and Her Baby near Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona from the U.S. National Archives
U.S. Troops Surrounded by Holiday Mail during WWII from the Smithsonian Institution
This is Thomas Power and children (and dog) of Dungarvan, Waterford County, Ireland from the National Library of Ireland
Peter Bellman, Loretta "Lucky" Bellman, and Butch Levy, from the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest *
Pair of young Shrikes or Butcher-birds from OSU Special Collections & Archives
*Loretta (Lucky) Bellman escaped Nazi Germany in 1939 and settled in New York, where her father started a successful furniture business. Butch Levy met and fell in love with Lucky, marrying her in 1944. Peter Bellman, Lucky’s brother, had been sent to Britain on a children’s transport in 1938, and was finally reunited with the family in America 1939. He enlisted in the US Army in 1941, and died in the Battle of the Bulge. Peter, Lucky and Butch are shown together on a leave during the war. (Information from photo description on The Commons.)
Eleventh Stack 