{"id":24269,"date":"2019-05-07T10:35:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=24269"},"modified":"2019-05-07T12:40:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T17:40:27","slug":"favorite-photo-april-27-history-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=24269","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Photo, April 27 &#8211; History Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/110427-Buck-composite-0002-w9.jpg\" alt=\"Cliff, Dottie, and Sue, Ukiah California.\" class=\"wp-image-24270\"\/><figcaption>Uncle Cliff, Aunt Dottie, and Cousin Sue, Ukiah California. April 27, 2011.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a special edition of my favorite photos by date series. In 2011 I set out across the country on a family history excursion. My mission for the California part of my trip was to visit several relatives and record their stories.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One of those visits was in Ukiah to visit Uncle Clifford and Aunt Dottie. Cliff is my mom&#8217;s older brother and Dottie was my mom&#8217;s roommate in college. That is when Cliff and Dottie met.<\/p>\n<p>Dottie is a nickname for Dorothy. Cliff decided it was too complicated to have two Dorothys living in one room , so he gave his girlfriend the nickname Dottie.<\/p>\n<p>We lost my mother unexpectedly and way too young. We had wanted mom to write down stories from her childhood, but that never happened. I knew Uncle Cliff would have lots of stories to tell about my mom and their childhood together. My cousin Sue lives in California and she went along for the visit.<\/p>\n<p>Cliff and Dottie shared lots of stories about my mom. Some of them I had heard before but many of them were stories that were new to me. It meant so much to hear them. We had a great day together and my digital recorder was on all the time, even during lunch. At lunch we sang the table grace we used to sing at grandpa&#8217;s house at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners back in the 50s and 60s.\u00c2\u00a0 The stories Cliff and Dottie shared are family treasures.<\/p>\n<p>Dottie took us into her studio and showed us some of her art work. She had just been asked to send a digital copy of one of her paintings to be published in a book. She asked me to create the digital copy so I did that while we were there.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24274\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/110427-Cliff-Dottie-Buck-5D-8901-j7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24274\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/110427-Cliff-Dottie-Buck-5D-8901-j7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clifford and Dorothy Buck<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While I was there I made a copy of this photo of Cliff and Dottie.<\/p>\n<p>This was a very special day.<\/p>\n<p>Less than four weeks after our visit, Clifford died in the night. I think that is how he would have wanted it.<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to put into words what the memory of that visit means to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=20584\">Series: Favorite Photos by Date<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0all about this series<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a special edition of my favorite photos by date series. In 2011 I set out across the country on a family history excursion. My mission for the California part of my trip was to visit several relatives and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=24269\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24275,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24269\/revisions\/24275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}