[fintstone]

I was just looking at some stuff from my mother's house. There are about 1000 post cards as well as some letters from the late 1800s to about the 1930s. Some earlier. Most are addressed to my great grandmother. I guess she kept all her mail. There are also many photos of the period of people that I do not know. Apparently, my mother ended up with these when her mother died.... who, in turn, must have ended up with them when my great grandmother died. I cannot bring myself to throw them away, but I will probably never read them or do anything but pass them down to one of my kids (when they clean out my house). I wish I had received at least the photos before my last great aunt died (as she had a great memory and could tell me who they were). Probably relatives, but they could just as easily be strangers. I don't even know who the people are in my grandmother's photos from the 50s and 60s. I wish people would have labeled them (but I don't do that either...as I know who the people are).