Sports on TV, #1
Nov 2, 2014
Baby Jake catches Game 7 of his first World Series, along with mom Caitlin. It's educational for Jake, we're told; as young as he is, he might as well start learning that the good guys don't always win.
Hole in the Clouds
Tag: eating
Bunch of Bananas
Jan 30, 2016
It's Saturday, a good day for bananas!
Approximately one hundred years ago, circa 1917, four people posed for this photo on the steps of somebody's back porch, probably in Minnesota. We can surmise that the house was heated by wood and had no running water–but yes, they sure had bananas.
The gentleman in the upper left is Bernard Burch, who in the 1920s was elected mayor of Wadena, Minnesota. As a young man, he ran his family's department store, "largest of its kind between Duluth and Fargo"; in his later years, he managed the town liquor store.
We do not know the identities of the happy banana-peelers he was hanging out with.
Family Table
Jan 2, 2018
"Bourgeois Dining" (1982), by Haitian painter Max Gerbier.