For my mother's eightieth birthday, an appropriate gift was easy to conceive (after attending a house tour and seeing a similar display by a gifted needleworker) but trickier to assemble. At the time, in the summer of 2007, I was immersed in the genealogical study of my family and had acrued a quantity of records, histories and photographs, so it was a logical step to use some of the images and my computer to produce these treasures for Mom. The two oldest images on the left, Mom's great-grandmother and grandmother, were cropped from group poses and then enlarged; next is her mother and then her own senior picture. Matching mats and frames complete the ensemble.
The simple printed legend in the center recounts names, birth dates and places.
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