Daddy Makes Lunch
As a nod to yesterday’s post, here’s another picture of a sweet girl’s daddy feeding her a special lunch. Look at his gentle smile:
Daddy feeding his daughter at the Pie Town fair.
The Pie Town Fair
One pretty Saturday, almost 75 years ago, in a ramshackle place called Pie Town, New Mexico, the homesteading families got together for a fair–barbecue, calf-roping, cakes made with all the eggs the chickens could lay. A photographer named Russell Lee was there with his trusty camera and a brand new invention: color film.
Families like these:
Thumbs Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Whinery and their children.
Garden adjacent to the dugout home of Jack Whinery, Pie Town New Mexico.
Mr and Mrs Norris
Came to the fair to meet up with neighbors and friends
Gathering for the fair, Pie Town New Mexico
Friends at the Pie Town Fair
Asking the blessing
Enjoy a fresh lunch in the fine weather
Serving BBQ at the Pie Town Fair.
Serving beans at the Pie Town fair.
Serving desserts at the Pie Town fair.
Having lunch at the Pie Town fair
Then there was some singing from the children
Singing at the Pie Town fair
Singing at the Pie Town fair
and then everyone went home for supper.
Another delight for my morning … thank you. In that last picture did you see the big can of KARO syrup being used to hold the biscuit plate up off the table? These photos made me grin from ear to ear. Simple images seem so much brighter in color. Thank you!!!!
I saw that can and thought “Daddy went to the store!”
My grandfather turns 99 today … he could have been one of those farmers gathering, feeding the kids, eating the bbq. Thanks for helping me see him through a different lens today.
Oh, that takes my breath away. My grandfather would have been 37 at this fair. I hadn’t even thought of that.
I love how relaxed the little girl in the first picture is, while perched rather precariously on her daddy’s knee — I mean look how his legs are positioned! Wonderful picture.
Isn’t the dearest?
Look how small the plates are compared to the gigantuan ones we eat off of today!
I like how the photos seem taken in the moment and few are staged
The photographer was working for the government, documenting the hard life of farmers.
Don’t you know those desserts were good?!
And all organic!