The story of the photograph of Catherine (McDonald) McKeown
The photographs in Cooley lived in the sideboard in the dining room underneath where the radio used to be. There were also some photographs framed and on the walls or on the mantelpiece in the kitchen or the dining room. Photographs were added and removed over the years so it is difficult to remember back to the late 50s or early 60s and recall which photos were where. In any event the main repository was under the radio. Some were in albums and some were loose. There was an ancient album with cut-out windows that never had very many photographs in it even though it was falling apart from either usage or age. One of the albums, ‘Memory Lane’ was older and had older photographs in it. A second album was more modern, something my younger brother started to pull together in the mid-60s. I remember the older photographs, and who was in them, well. During my father’s last year, when he was over 97 years of age, I went through a lot of the photographs with him to confirm who the peo79
