“Would you like to be queen for a day?” Jack Bailey, the weasel-faced, mustachioed gameshow host, asked his TV viewing audience. Inside the Queen for a Day studio, women applauded vigorously. Seven months pregnant with her fourth child, my mother glanced up from her ironing board and stared wistfully at the television. On that June afternoon in 1963, IContinue reading “Royal Wishes”
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What’s in a Photograph?
What’s in a photo image? Have you ever really looked beyond the faces in your family photos to find obscure details? As an author, I’ve spent many hours searching through old pictures and gleaning what I could from them. Photographs document more than individuals’ moods and settings. Every image has a background that discloses addedContinue reading “What’s in a Photograph?”
Diana Estill 