a scan a day

epic letter to grandma, p. 4

It’s cruel, I know, to leave you with such an extraordinarily exciting cliffhanger — “The Dinah Bore Show, you say? Do tell us about it. I’ll bet you had some fantastic guests.”

Stay tuned.

(previously: p. 1, p. 2 & p. 3)

epic letter to grandma, p. 3

The saga continues.

(p. 1 & p. 2, if you are so inclined)

autograph, 1974

It’s really weird, the stuff you end up keeping & this is of particular interest, considering. Clayton moved out of state more than three years ago & has not spoken to anyone in the family since.

In case you’re wondering, we do know that he’s okay. He just doesn’t want to talk to any of us.

letter from her brother dictated by his sister

He just wanted his pen back.

Before the internet, and cell phones, we had telegrams.

epic letter to grandma, p. 1

After my grandma died, my mom was going through her closets & she found a stack of letters from us kids — with carbon copies of her own typed responses (Grandma ALWAYS typed her letters). My mom put some of them in a photo album. This is page one of a six-page letter I wrote around 1971 — I think it was our first summer in Connecticut — which would have made me eleven.

ETA: 1972, actually. We moved up to Connecticut when I was just finishing sixth grade, so this was summer of ‘72.

I mentioned once that I worked on Family Matters for a couple of years in the 90s — you know, the Urkel show. This letter came to our offices one day & it killed me — third-to-last line — so I kept it. I wonder where this kid is now.