An interesting discovery
It’s funny how one thing can lead to something else entirely unrelated. Such an occurrence happened to me today. I was watching YouTube when I found this video. It got me to thinking about putting together a memorial video for my grandfather, Klaus Hohmann.
Back in the summer of 1987, I traveled to Wiesbaden, Germany to spend a couple of months with my grandparents there. I was very close to them, especially to my grandfather. Over the course of the summer, he and I took day trips to different places in the country and took quite a few photos. Near the end of my stay, Klaus and I put together a scrapbook of all the photos, postcards, and miscellanea that we picked up. Nearly twenty-two years later, I still have this scrapbook.
This evening, I dug it out intending to scan the photos; but I changed my mind when I realized that after nearly 22 years, they were still attached to the pages. I couldn’t bring myself to break the adhesive that’s held them after this much time has passed. Instead, I started to rearrange the pages back to the way they originally were (they’d gotten mixed up over the years). During this process, two postcards fell from their pages. Imagine my surprise when I saw that I’d written on them back in 1987! These are probably the only surviving bits of my handwriting from back then. It certainly has changed quite a bit.
One of them, I had intended to mail to my friend Ricky Moore and the other was meant for my parents. As I did with some other correspondence that I’ve received over the years, I transcribed these two postcards into the blog. Now the archive dates back to the late 80’s!
