Stardust (Top of the charts in 1927)

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He turned off the big 32” Omen Monitor on his desk and put his elderly MacBook Pro to sleep. Being created in 2013 it should probably be down living in the Village in Florida version place where all really old Macs go to retire. 

Before he left his office, he saw the little brown book ready for him to read through tomorrow. Perhaps the greatest amount of things his mother has ever written available to see in this journal of a summer trip of the family in 1927. 

It sat there on the wood desk under one of my LED lights turned to dim. The little notebook written in an absolutely gorgeous hand by their grandmother. It was a journal of their trip to California starting August 31 of 1927. My grandmother’s only son JP was 17 at the time and about to enter LSU in Baton Rouge. It was the first JP had ever seen the wider world out there so it was a great travel adventure. He saw California for the first time. The state he later fell in love with. 

The story of this summer trip is in the little notebook on his desk. It is the image he had caught before he left the office. So much more information and not having to explored family history on grumbly aging pages falling apart. It was an important little document it seemed to him because it was one of the very few expressions of his grandmother’s voice in all the scrapbook materials. Her time to speak up it seemed to him. These notes might hold new answers to some of the questions he had about the life of his father.

A work in progress.