I found this photo in a box.

Remember I said there were boxes and boxes of stuff  Dad’s mom had collected in boxes?  The photo on this page was among them.  The back of the photo says “Ellen Leon Horace Fuona”.

Ellen Schulstad was grandmother’s sister.  She married Leon Winslow.  I don’t know who Horace and Fuona are, or who the baby is.  It would be great to know.  I am trying to get in touch with the Schulstad cousins.  I used to be in touch, but not now.  Grandmother was the youngest of 11, but Dad was an only child.  His father (Frank Phillips) died when he was two and we know little about him.  His step-father, Jack Langbauer, died when Dad was in his teens or early twenties.  I can’t find any family for Langbauer either.  But Dad was surrounded by aunts and uncles and cousins during his growing up years.  I have lots of pictures and many, many aren’t labeled.  I have learned to label all my pictures.  At least when they were being printed and put in a box I did.  Do it.  And don’t put “This is dad and me at the lake!”  Put “This is me (Mike Trope) and dad (Arnie Trope) at Smith Mountain Lake on July 4, 2001.  Your children and grandchildren will thank you.