EIGHT PRAIRIE BOYS

           I ran across this photo a few days ago and it made me think of some family history

          You see eight very solid prairie boys in this photo.

           We were all born and raised on the Canadian prairie in  prairie in Saskatchewan. When I lived there in the forties and fifties ,it was not all developed and was a very pleasant land. 

           The eight males in the photo were neighbors and relatives. My mother , Dorothy and their mother Margaret, were cousins so that makes these boys some kind of cousin.

          There were four boys in each family. In this photo the ages would be about three to twenty four. The two families did many things together. For example, we shared Christmas. Our Dad's worked together on many farming activities. We lived  a mile apart so as kids we played together and went from one farm to the other.

        Now this photo was  taken about sixty seven years  ago. Two of these boys farmed. One was a teacher and one was a nurse. Two of them made their living as musicians. One was a piano technician. One was an engineer who spent time at NASA as a tool maker. 

     My cousins all moved to California. My family stayed in Canada. I live 400 miles away from my three brothers.

     In the one family all are deceased and in my family all are still living.