Thursday, December 15, 2011

follow up on the recent Howard and Mamie Horn entry

Dad pointed out an error in my last blog, so I went back in and made the correction. It was based on a recollection I had. Just reminded me how memories can overlap and take on a life of their own. But one of my recollections that I have no doubt about concerns a footstool with what appeared to be wooden thread spools of various sizes embedded in its sides. I bring this up again, because as I was going through the half dozen photos placed in the Horn family Bible, I enhanced a very faded photo of a teenage boy who took a photo of himself by setting his camera on a box on top of a footstool on top of a table facing a wall mirror. I have included a cropped portion of that photo (which originally included the entire mirror and part of the room behind him) so you could get a better look at the boy and that footstool.
Yep. That's the footstool I remember. Question is, who is the boy? My guess is that it is Howard or one of his brothers. We probably will never know for sure, but this photo seems to indicate that this footstool had been in the Horn family for at least one generation before Howard and Mamie possessed it. Your thoughts?

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