Picnic – About the summer of 1953

This is not a very good photograph (very underexposed) but I wanted to post it because of the subject matter and location. This was one of our little family outings for a picnic. However it is only over on Route 7 from the farm. This was the little wayside across from Dr. White’s house that Granddaddy built, where what is now Canby Road came out to 7. It was typical of Virginia at that time and was like the places we used to stop along Route 11 when we went down the Valley to Bristol or Lebanon, just a picnic table or two and a 55 gal. drum for trash. Jackie of course, under the guise of helping Mother, is over into the food while the rest of us are waiting patiently at the table.