Wright Family Photos: Barn at 67 West Street, 1965

Any idea which of the cousins is in the front of this photo?

Wright Family Photos: Barn at 67 West Street, 1965

 

Wright Family Photos: Two unknown people, around 1940

Wright Family Photos: Two unknown people, around 1940

 

Ervin and Robert Putnam fishing, around 1943

Ervin and Robert Putnam fishing, around 1943

 

Wright Family Photos: Possibly George Wright, around 1945

Possibly George Wright, around 1945

 

St John River Trip: Dr. Steele and fish on Allagash, around 1938

St John River Trip: Dr. Steele and fish on Allagash, around 1938

 

Wright Family Photos: Another Unknown Location

Wright Family Photos: Another Unknown Location

 

St John River Trip: Boy delivering Groceries near Clayton Lake, ME, around 1938

St John River Trip: Boy delivering Groceries near Clayton Lake, ME, around 1938

 

Wright Family Photos: Unknown Location around 1941

I have know idea where this is, but it was in the Wright family photos.  Any guesses?

Wright Family Photos: Unknown Location around 1941

 

Article that mentions my Mother: Citizens for Parks Elect Swope President, The News Journal April 25th, 1967

 Citizens for Parks Elect Swope President

April 25th, 1967

Floyd Swope of Newark was elected president of the Citizens Committee for Parks at its meeting last night at Faulk Road Elementary School.

Swope succeeds Mrs. Robert E. Putnam of Cragmere in Brandywine Hundred. Putnam will continue as the committee's legislative representative.

Joseph Myers of Deerhurst is the new vice president and Dr. Edwin Fluevog was re-elected secretary-treasurer.

The committee also enlarged its board of directors from 15 to 25.

New Directors are Edward R. Bache, Mrs. S. William Bender, Edward T. Cline, Edward B. Cooper, William Corbishley, Mrs. Cyrus L. Day, Mrs. Roy C. Grills, Mrs. John E. Harris and A.L. Oppegard, all elected for three-year terms, and Brig.-Gen. H. Wallace Cook, elected for a two-year term.

Conservationists who reviewed conditions in the area were William Poole, president, and Larry Dodge, executive vice president of the Upper Chesapeake Watershed Association Inc.; Robert G. Struble, executive vice president of the Brandywine Valley Association and Clayton M. Hoff, executive vice president of Forward Lands, Inc.

St. John River Trip, Possibly Bill Caldwell, around 1938

St. John River Trip, Possibly Bill Caldwell, around 1938

 

Wright family photos: Barbara, around 1943

 I don't know who Barbara was, and I am guessing that this was taken in the early 40s.

Wright family photos: Barbara, around 1943

Mom's Buckeye Recipe

 I make this every Christmas.  I think she got this when she moved to Marietta, but I am not sure.

Buckeyes

• 1 small jar (1/ 12 cup) peanut butter
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
• 1 lb. confectioner's sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 1 (12 oz) pkg. semi-sweet chocolate morsels
• edible paraffin wax

After softening the butter, mix peanut butter, butter, sugar and vanilla with hands or electric mixer.  Form into small balls.  Melt chocolate in top of double boiler and add small amount of paraffin. Dip balls into chocolate coating, using toothpick and a spoon.  even better when double dipped.

*I skip the paraffin which is a hardening agent and to add a shine to the buckeyes. I freeze the buckeyes instead.   

St. John River Trip: Possibly Bill Caldwell, Heymock Laker, ME, 1938

St. John River Trip: Possibly Bill Caldwell, Heymock Laker, ME, 1938

 

Cats(Bush kitten) at 67 West Street, Northampton, MA, around 1941

Sorry for not posting for a bit.  House stuff has been eating up my time. 

Cats(Bush kitten) at 67 West Street, Northampton, MA, around 1941

 

Another Mom's holiday recipes: Tipsy Trifle

 My sister asked to get this one up.  This is from an email my Mom sent to me in 1998 and I haven't made it in quite some time.  I don't have all the proportions so I will add what I have.  When I make this, I can update the recipe.

Tipsy Trifle

• Angle Food Cake
• 1 small boxes of Vanilla Pudding(not instant)
• milk
• 1 bag or 2 boxes of frozen frozen raspberries
• 3 bananas
• 1/2 cup of good (not sweet) sherry
• 1 half-pint whipping cream
• 3 tablespoons of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of Vanilla

Make the pudding according to the directions on the box.  Put a few spoonful on the bottom of a pretty dish. Slice cake into thin slices(1/2 inch or less) and line bottom and sides of dish with it. Sprinkle slices with sherry(the amt. is your choice. I use 1/2 cup sherry for all). Put 1/2 of the berries and 1 and 1/2 of the bananas(sliced) in the dish. Cover with pudding. Repeat cake, sherry, fruit, bananas and pudding. Top iwth cake, cover with pudding.  Chill.  Whip cream with 3 tablespoons of sugar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Spread over trifle and decorate with cherries or what you will.

I sometimes need more pudding, so you might get another box to have on hand.  I never use the entire cake unless I'm making a huge trifle.  Then I would increase the other ingredients.  You can use other fruit, but we like raspberries best.

Quick Recipe

Substitute instant pudding for pudding. Use jelly roll for cake.  Canned berries can be substituted.

She also talked about getting a pseudo-1900s British version from the Mrs. Bridges' Upstairs Downstairs Cookery Book.  Unfortunately, I don't have that one.

Enjoy, and if you make it let me know w how it works.  You can see all the recipes I've transcribed on the Putnam Wright Chronicles website.