Saturday, March 31, 2012

Caught by Myself (WWI-Era Photo Album)

"Myself" was a hunter as well as a motorcyclist. A meticulous speller, "Myself" was not. The handwritten note behind our next photograph reads (spelling and punctuation unchanged):
Wood Chuck
Caught by Myself
J. Gruels Woods
North of Deep River & Anisworth
June 1918[?]
(Question mark added because the date is not perfectly legible.) Here is the photo:

Woodchuck 1 (17a)
(Click on images to enlarge)
Images courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.


I believe that's "Myself" holding the woodchuck. "J. Gruel," of course, was John Gruel, whose farm and woods covered the area that is now River Pointe Country Club.

On the same page, we get a close-up of the woodchuck, posed on the tree trunk.

Woodchuck 2 (17b)

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