My grandfather, Alfred Ferdinand Smith’s first shot as an entrepreneur – first a logger, up near Superior, Wisconsin – later a carpenter and self-taught violin maker. Since this shitty WordPress theme crops my photos without my permission, the original scan is located here.
I am slowing scanning hundreds of fading photos and hard to read letters and postcards – the task seems overwhelming, and I really question if there is a need to preserve all these unknown relatives from the past. But if I don’t do it, these moments in history will be lost forever,
How things have changed in a mere hundred years. Imagine life 101 years from now?
