The Gang's All Here

When my grandmother was about 7 years old, she played a piano recital. I imagine Nana made her take the lessons because she appreciated music. Years later, my grandma would tell people that she only remembers how to play "Isle of Capris," something I can only take her word for since I've neither heard that song before nor heard my grandmother play the piano. She took tap dance lessons too, and because she wanted to, not because Nana coerced her and Jack (my Great Uncle) to do something else. This little fun fact came out when I was in high school and dipping my toes into my own artistic forms of expression.

Needless to say, Grandma doesn't really remember this piano recital or having the picture taken. In fact, I'm not convinced she remembers who all these girls were. So it was 1931, and in case you don't remember, there were only 48 states, people were living in Hoovervilles because of the depression, there was no Social Security, and the Star Spangled Banner came to be what it is. Meanwhile, Ginger, Catherine, June, Pauley and Lenore were playing in a recital at their piano teacher's house. Someone's mom stopped them before they went in, dressed in their Sunday best, to pose (facing the sun apparently) for a picture to capture the day. More than likely the whole fiasco took about ten minutes getting the girls to stand still and then setting up the camera, and just as quickly as it was snapped it was remembered. No one would guess that 74 years later, Pauley would go to her home computer, filling up no less of her house than a small desktop, and electronically send it to Ginger, who would receive it at her own home computer less than a minute later. And so it was blogged.