Lessons from an old photograph

摘要

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY. Maybe so, but you have to want to know that story. It was a sepia photograph of an incredibly old airplane in the snow. I came across it among my great uncle's things after his passing in 1987. My great uncle was the only grandfather figure in my life and more than lived up to the role. He had been raised in an orphanage with his brother and sister, his parents unable to provide for them at the time and forced to make an unimaginably difficult decision. He loved baseball and fishing. He had hunted, fished, and trapped the black-water swamps in the South Carolina low country during the Great Depression with his brother to earn a living and loved every minute of it.