Snood Family Blog Challenge of the day:

Describe who is in these photos and where they were taken.

Puddles!

Who's winning in this game?

Such noble trees!

Blast from the past!

Back when the kids were really little, we had chickens . . .

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A Great Snow Day

Painter Taylor

Love Letters Over the Pacific

Josephine (Jo) Taylor (1909-1972) and J. Eugene (Gene) Taylor (1909 - 2006) of Nashville TN exchanged approximately 460 letters during World War II. Gene was based “Somewhere in the Pacific”, and Jo moved to Tucson, Monteagle and Sarasota while renting out their home at 1126 Tyne Blvd. in Nashville.

It is a love story and describes how Jo Taylor was able to manage her complicated Cooper family relationships while taking care of her two sons while away from home in Tucson, Monteagle and Sarasota.

Jo was a gifted story teller and writer. Gene’s letters from “Somewhere in the Pacific” (actually Ford Island at Pearl Harbor) were more constrained since he could not talk about his work, planning the naval air logistics for invasion of Japan. His letters are the other half of a 15 month dialogue by mail between two persons about family issues, money and politics.

In addition, the letters captures the language and feeling of a unique period in the social history of Americans during World War II.

Taylor-Cannistra people at Sunset Falls

 

Some recent shots of Taylor-Cannistra people at Sunset Falls campground on the Lewis River, WA

 

Who are you?

 

 

Matt Taylor, Executive Director

Westwind Stewardship Group

P.O. Box 408  Otis, OR  97368

tel: 541.994.2383  cell: 541.921.0316

www.westwind.org

 

 

Who's running?

Food fungus

 

Thought it was Pink Sand Verbena

Children at play in the dunes (Meerkats).

Cascade and Standing on your Head

Holy Cow! Flowers

Intrepid students, teachers and parents

At play in the Roost

A beginning.

Painter 1

Painter 2

World Building

The Finder

Josie Mae

Also, working on a bio of Robert Emmett Cooper , father of Josephine  Cooper Taylor

WWII letters

We are up to 187 letters transcribed to date of 400 total .... hope to finish this year (2012)

1944-46 Wartime Corespondence between Josephine and Gene Taylor

January 1945 - 10 letters from Jo to Gene. This is reading like a novel . More reports of friction with Jo's sister Irma , intermixed with stories about guests and 5 year old Josh and his burro, Eloise , and 10 year old Ben and his reaction to the drama at El Rancho Pantana.

Letters back from Gene to Jo , very supportive of her and any decision she makes, and observations of being a Lt JG with many higher ranking officers on The USN Plans Division at Pearl Harbor [ planning the invasion of Japan , he later told me ]