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Here are a couple of pictures of Saturday night picnics that I found, showing the tablecloth in use. I wish I had more!
Glady is at the end of the table. The only other person I recognize is the woman at the front right with her hand at her mouth. I'm quite sure that her name was Margery, but I can't remember her surname, and the only Margery or Marjorie that I can find on the tablecloth doesn't seem right at all. I think she lived with Dorothy Hope Marvin and that they both were doctors, and there were big dogs - Airedales? - but I'm not really sure.
My beloved maternal grandmother, Helen Robinson, is on the left. I'm pretty sure it's Sally Loessel on the right, but I don't really have the whole Johlin/Loessel/Robinson/Fitz family quite straight in my head. Additionally, I'm having a little trouble with the which way we're facing, because of the house in the back. I need to think about it.
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From the summers of late 1940s until the summers of the late 1980s, if Glady was in Woods Hole, she held a Saturday night picnic. I've written about those picnics in the Non-family page on this website for Glady and Aunt Erna. The tablecloth that Glady used at those picnics is too big a subject to be included there.
The tablecloth was spread on a long picnic table on the lawn behind Glady's house. I don't know where the table came from - was it built specially to be long enough to accommodate everybody? - and I don't know when Glady acquired it. I also don't know where Glady originally got the tablecloth from. She would have been looking for one that was big enough for the table, and also for one with space for the names that she would be embroidering into the tablecloth. Conceivably she bought the tablecloth before she had the idea of embroidering names into it, and then a lightbulb went on her head, but I think Glady was a better planner than that.
Glady enjoyed doing embroidery-type stuff. I don't remember her expressing that sentiment in words, but I vaguely remember her doing some seat covers, and I also remember her talking about the sampler she did as a child. She was born in 1903, so this would have been around the end of the era when children did samplers. Glady said that the letters from the parts of the sampler that she did later were noticeably better than the letters in the parts of the sampler that she did earlier.
If you came to a Saturday night picnic, Glady embroidered your name onto the Tablecloth. I remember that Sarah Gregory, a teenaged (at the time, anyway) friend from my home town, visited my family in the 1960s - 1966, I think - in the house we had rented in Woods Hole, and naturally she came with us to Glady's picnic. After dinner she signed the Tablecloth. Glady decided that dark green would be a good color for Sarah, and Glady embroidered Sarah's name into the Tablecloth on Sarah's signature as we all sat and talked. And now both Glady and Sarah are gone.
The tablecloth was spread on a long picnic table on the lawn behind Glady's house. I don't know where the table came from - was it built specially to be long enough to accommodate everybody? - and I don't know when Glady acquired it. I also don't know where Glady originally got the tablecloth from. She would have been looking for one that was big enough for the table, and also for one with space for the names that she would be embroidering into the tablecloth. Conceivably she bought the tablecloth before she had the idea of embroidering names into it, and then a lightbulb went on her head, but I think Glady was a better planner than that.
Glady enjoyed doing embroidery-type stuff. I don't remember her expressing that sentiment in words, but I vaguely remember her doing some seat covers, and I also remember her talking about the sampler she did as a child. She was born in 1903, so this would have been around the end of the era when children did samplers. Glady said that the letters from the parts of the sampler that she did later were noticeably better than the letters in the parts of the sampler that she did earlier.
If you came to a Saturday night picnic, Glady embroidered your name onto the Tablecloth. I remember that Sarah Gregory, a teenaged (at the time, anyway) friend from my home town, visited my family in the 1960s - 1966, I think - in the house we had rented in Woods Hole, and naturally she came with us to Glady's picnic. After dinner she signed the Tablecloth. Glady decided that dark green would be a good color for Sarah, and Glady embroidered Sarah's name into the Tablecloth on Sarah's signature as we all sat and talked. And now both Glady and Sarah are gone.
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My second cousin Fred took this picture and several others not long after Glady died.
The whole tablecloth, held by Glady's cousins Ed and Ann Goltermann
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