WENDELL GLADSTONE, foreground, and his family enjoy lunch in upstate New York in 1936. Among those with him is his wife, Ruth, holding baby Shirley on her lap. Shirley’s daughter, Wendy Eaton of Seattle, WA, sent in the picture.
WITH NO AC at home, Jack Gross, second from left, took guests Grant, Neita and Derril Gwinner on a picnic in Columbus, NE, in 1958. Wife Hilvie snapped the shot, sent by daughter Dulcie Shoener of Whitefish Bay, WI, who was pushing sister Melanie’s buggy.
RIDING HIGH My sister Debbie balances on Dad’s arm at a gathering in northeastern Ohio in about 1952. I’m the 2-year-old on the blanket with our parents, Kenneth and Magdalen Freeman.
THOMAS FREEMAN • PHOENIX, AZ
“We had lots of picnics and played hundreds of games…