Among the photos that my grandmother left behind was an album that had belonged to her mother.  I can remember as a small child sitting with my great-grandmother and hearing stories about life on the farm owned by her parents as well as looking at this small album with her, out on the side porch at my Gram's house.  Unfortunately, no names were ever put to these pictures before Grandmother passed away and long after as Gram and I went through the box, the names eluded her as the images were too small for her to see.

Drawing on the stories I heard as a child and matching faces from pictures that had been identified, I have been able to put together a slice of what life was like on the Winfield Farm owned by Milton Houck.  These pictures date from approximately late 1909 until about 1916.  They are scenes of family life, everybody's joy in the first grandchild who grew up to be my Gram, routine farm life and pictures of the summer boarders that would come from far and wide to spend time in 'the country' away from the hot and dirty cities.   It was at this farm house that my great-grandmother, my grandmother and my mother were born.    I have no idea if the farm is still standing, but plan to make a day's adventure out of finding out this spring.