My Guy

Good Monday, bookmark snoopers...



Black and white photo, 3.5 inches square.
Written on reverse:
My guy!
Sincerley (or Sincerbox/boy... ?)
1956 summer

Found in "The Essential Hemingway" published by Penguin, 1964.

Three Boys

Color photo, 3 inches by five inches.
No date or writing.

Found in "The Great Crash: 1929" by Kenneth Galbraith. Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1972.

Selena!

Edward James Olmos, is that you?


Drawing in colored pencils, I beleive. Again, no art expert here.

Found in "Fore N Aft" 1968 yearbook.

Violets

Silk ribbon with an illustration of a violet drawn in. I'm guessing drawn, I see no stitch marks or anything similar... but then again, I am not an expert on 19th century textiles.

Found in "Winston's Cumulative Loose-Leaf Encyclopedia Volume II - Bay Of - Chalcis" edited by Thomas Finegan. Published by Winston Co., 1926.

Taken

Color photo, 5 inches by 3 inches.

Label on back reads:
Taken May 10, 1997
at Shirley & Laine's
Wedding

Found in "Speaking With The Angel" edited by Nick Hornby, published by Riverhead Books, 2000.

You Gotta Be In It To Win It

Lotto ticket from Massachusetts, dated September 16 1989.

Found in "Season Ticket" by Roger Angell, Ballantine, 1988.

(I know you're curious. I know because I'm curious. Thanks to Mass Lotto's neat website, you can look up winning numbers. I'm assuming this ticket was purchased for the 9/16/89 Megabucks draw, and the winners for that day were 2-3-4-23-30-32.)

Right is Might

Card with a typed letter.

Sept. 15th
Dear Jay:
We always enjoy hearing from you but it is such a sad state of things, that you haven't been able to get your rightful claim acknowledged. I guess all we can steadfastly know if that Right is Might and will prevail. A friend of ours has suggested that you write to Robert Kennedy.

Had a note from Mrs. Platt yesterday. She is not married as yet and may wait until January when she is due to retire. Alan has a new job and has moved to Boca Raton which is not too far from where his mother lives. Dave and his wife still live up in N.Y. but bought a place in Maine and he is not making custom furniture.

Janice is going up north to her Association so no doubt she will meet your Mom there.

The Jr. Onderdonks just returned from a trip to Florida and N.Y. They visited Pat's mom in Florida and then drove up to Bedford. They visited the Onderdonks and then drove up to Boston where they stayed with Janet and all attended the Biennial meeting at The Mother Church. Seven kids from this area went too.

On the way back they dropped Ricky off at Pri?cipia where is now a sophomore.

We all keep busy as can be in this shop and Pappy Green is a haaaard taskmaster.

He talks of talking a cruise this winter to the Pacific and ending up in Australia but so far it is only in the mental stage but it all sounds very alluring.

Schools here opened on the 7th so Nancy is now down to one little boy and he is in nursery school three mornings a week so she and I can get some book work done.

Hope you and your Mom are fine. Do let us hear more news of you when you can

Sincerely,
Mammy Greene

Found in "The District Doctor and Other Stories" by Ivan Turgenev. Published by A.S. Barnes, 1960.

Cannot Keep It From Themselves

Lightweight card with horse illustration on front.

Inside, written in pen:

Mike,
Those who bring
Sunshine
To the lives of others,
Cannot Keep it
from themselves.
Sir Walter Barrymore

Found in "The Kindness of Strangers" by Katrina Kittle. Published by Harper Perennial, 2006.

Admit One

Concert ticket, 3 inches by 2.5 inches.

Monday, September 22 10:30 PM
at the
Bitter End
149 Bleecker St., New York City
Jeff Kline
and the
J.K Band
Admit One

Found in "Speaking With The Angel: Original Stories" edited by Nick Hornby. Published by Riverhead Books, 2000.

Billy Benson

Two letter-sized pages, looks to be computer printouts. One is a blurry picture, the other is clearer, with a message:

Monica,
It was very nice meeting you, hope you had a good vacation!
Mike 'aka' Billy Benson

Found in "Human Anatomy and Physiology: Sixth Edition" by Elaine N. Marieb. Published by Pearson, 2004.