how can you read on a plane?
I’m too distracted by everything or tired

Viewing log, March 17, 2011
1. The Harmony Korine/Die Antwoord video
2. The rest of I’ll Do Anything (Netflix Watch Instant)
This Gibson Girl is my great-grandmother. Her name was Bessie Henderson. I know nothing for certain about this photo, but, from the surrounding circumstances of her life, can deduce quite a bit. The photo would have been taken in either Mount Olive or Goldsboro, North Carolina - probably the latter. She was 19 when she died in early 1911, and she was pregnant during much of 1910, so I’d guess the photo was taken in 1908 or 1909. She lived on a small farm with her ailing grandparents. Her arms are burned dark from work in the sun, but she would have shielded her fair face with a bonnet or straw hat. The lockets mystify and sadden me. Neither my grandmother nor her sister ever saw them. They had nothing of their mother’s, save this picture.
Submitted by Lisa Henderson (Atlanta, Georgia).







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Gobsmacking use of QR codes! by Paul Carvill on Flickr.
[this is good]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liivkyNsXo1qz4vjro1_500.jpg)
