Monthly Archives: August 2019
TRIVIA TRAIL: GERBER BABIES
Image From: http://clipart-library.com/clipart/1014863.htm Still on the subject of baby pictures: Question: Who was the original baby for Gerber baby foods? Answer: Ann Turner Cook acquired that distinction in 1928 and grew up to be a mystery writer. Her likeness was drawn by artist, Dorothy Hope Smith. https://www.gerber.com/about/meet-the-gerber-baby Ninety years later, another baby made Gerber history. […]
HISTORY MYSTERY SOLVED: UGLY MEDIEVAL BABIES
Since there were no cameras back then, we have to rely on paintings to show us what people looked like in medieval times. Until the Renaissance, babies didn’t fare too well in that department. https://www.vox.com/2015/7/8/8908825/ugly-medieval-babies
HISTORIC RE-CREATION: WW II CHILD EVACUATIONS
My mother and oldest brother were never officially evacuated, but did reside near London and went up to Scotland to stay with my father’s relatives when Ronald was about fourteen months old. Those relatives were a bit surprised he was still on a bottle at that age, but Mum explained that, when you’re sitting in […]
HISTORIC FUN: YE OLDE BRITISH FÊTES
http://clipart-library.com/clipart/579083.htm My father played the bagpipes, and as a member of the Oxford Caledonian Pipe Band, often performed during fêtes. Like our Sassenach mother, my brothers and I were not overly enthusiastic about bagpipes, but I did love fêtes and accompanied him to various ones in Berkshire & Oxfordshire, where he’d slip me half […]
Time Travelling With Kids 