My Memories in the Arms Family Reunion 1977 picture

Since I was a teenager in 1977, some of the memories I get directly from the Arms Family Reunion 1977 picture may bear some small resemblance to reality.

My very first memory when first seeing this picture was of me standing next to Aunt Helen in front of the porch in the late 1960's. So of course I thought that was me next to her as my mother is to the left of her sitting on the porch and the little boy in striped shirt and shorts looks exactly like I did in the late 1960's. I even remember having a shirt exactly like that one. Unfortunately, for that story, he in fact isn't me but one of my cousin Lura Dean's children who in this picture looks to me exactly as I did about 10 years earlier than when this picture was taken.

The tree branches in the picture are all from one tree. It was a huge Japanese Ginko tree in the front yard and over 100 years old. At the time it was most likely the largest Japanese Ginko tree in the state of Tennessee. It is one of the reasons the Japanese Ginko has always been my favorite tree. If you look closely at the picture, you can see the triangular shaped "maidenhair" leaves on the branches.

The house in the picture is the Arms Family farmhouse which my mother and her siblings all grew up in after they moved from the other side of the Cumberland river sometime in the very early 1900's. It was built before the Civil War and was built by adding onto a log cabin which still remained within it's interior. The front door to the log cabin is the door on the left on the porch. The front of the log cabin extends from the left of the picture to the left of the "breezeway" door at the center of the porch. As long as I can remember the house was always painted white with blue/gray trim and had a silver roof.

My next plan is to attempt to name all the relatives in the picture; however, chances are high that I'll get some of them wrong since I already couldn't tell who I was. In my favor in that regard, in the original picture I saw of this, the picture was cropped on the right-hand side (see below) where I'm standing and I wasn't in that picture. I'm actually the right-most one standing on the porch in the yellow shirt leaning against the pillar. My father is the second person to the left of me in the picture standing on the porch with his Argus camera hanging around his neck.

Original picture I was first looking at: