My mother had written to relatives of my dads to set up a meeting.
1950-3Jul - postcard to my mother
Letter to my mother c/o her friend
Letter to my mother's friend
German letter
She got the addresses from letters that were written to my grandmother (Daddy's mother) after WWII asking usually for money or supplies.
Relative's tavern
Weinstrub label
We went to a Winestrub owned by one of my dad's cousins. They lived in Lichtenau.
Manure pile by front door!
Manure Pile (the bigger the manure pile, the richer you were)
All dressed up-Georg Andreas Leidel
Anna Barbara "Babette" Wellhoefer Leidel
And then Uncle Bob drove us to Munich - I don't remember much about our visit to Munich. We drove through the city and my dad was interested in seeing the university.
Munich university
Munich
Munich
Munich university
only a wall - University Munich
shingles
We picked blueberries and bought a cuckoo clock in the Black Forest.
roadside flowers and fields
black forest road
picking blueberries
We have a movie of my sister picking blueberries and proudly showing them off and then accidentally spilling them all
1950-3Jul - postcard to my mother
Letter to my mother c/o her friend
Letter to my mother's friend
German letter
She got the addresses from letters that were written to my grandmother (Daddy's mother) after WWII asking usually for money or supplies.
Relative's tavern
Weinstrub label
We went to a Winestrub owned by one of my dad's cousins. They lived in Lichtenau.
Manure pile by front door!
Manure Pile (the bigger the manure pile, the richer you were)
All dressed up-Georg Andreas Leidel
Anna Barbara "Babette" Wellhoefer Leidel
And then Uncle Bob drove us to Munich - I don't remember much about our visit to Munich. We drove through the city and my dad was interested in seeing the university.
Munich university
Munich
Munich
Munich university
only a wall - University Munich
shingles
We picked blueberries and bought a cuckoo clock in the Black Forest.
roadside flowers and fields
black forest road
picking blueberries
We have a movie of my sister picking blueberries and proudly showing them off and then accidentally spilling them all
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