My Grandfather- Yale Football 1922
The other day I was Googling myself (My real name is Ira Edward Wight….The Fourth) and came across the photo of my grandfather being auctioned…
Family History Items
Lambert Airport Circa 1962
Here is a wonderful picture of my family in the early 60’s leaving for Nantucket from Lambert Airport. I was not born yet…. From left…
Broadway @ Pine, 1850
Here is a lithograph of the Boyhood Home of Auguste Berthold Ewing, an ancestor of mine. Built in 1825 on the Northwest corner. That is…
The Brickbuilder- 5 Brentmoor Park, Clayton
A while ago, somehow I stumbled across this print on Ebay and bought it! It is a plate from The Brickbuilder- a monthly trade magazine….
Gettysburg….The South After The Civil War….and family
During my recent time away in New York and Pennsylvania, we made a trip to Gettysburg. Gettysburg was pretty amazing and powerful. I knew there…
Nantucket Baskets
I was too young to miss all of the fun on Nantucket when our entire tribe would go there each Summer for a month. My…
New Orleans- Part 4 Promise the last post on this trip!
The Wights originally were from Maine and after the Civil War my Great Great Grandfather, Pearl Wight, moved to New Orleans to start a hardware…
New Orleans- Part 2
A full day yesterday in New Orleans. We visited 3 plantations… Pictured is Oak Alley. We saw our old family mausoleum in Metarie graveyard…I think…
A Picnic @ Our Farm in the 60’s
Here is another wonderful family photo that was recently rediscovered. It is my grandfather, aunt and late uncle having a picnic in the woods at…
My Grandmother in Nantucket
My brother found some photos on my late father's computer that he shared with us this Christmas. This one is of my paternal grandmother on…