I said that the earliest or youngest photo I had ever seen of Grandpa George W. Luckert was the Christmas one supplied by Rick Stedtnitz, but that's not true. I will insert here the dual wedding portraits of George and Anna when I find and scan copies. In the meantime I have these. Grandpa was not a very good farmer. What he's planning with this bull, I can't imagine.
This is a curiosity of Grandpa and his youngest daughter, Betty, labelled "Dad & Me--1927." What they are doing boating with an apparent strong wind and where will remain a mystery, though, if I had to guess, I'd say it was a very early photo of Niobrara State Park, the big building the bathhouse I remember where the dressing rooms were (men on the north side, women on the south?), just north of the lagoon. The Niobrara Island [sic] Park opened in 1910 and became a state park in 1930 (the old park I grew up with, now flooded).
Another photo of George and Betty, but I don't know the other child or where the house is.
Rich simply marked the above photo in the upper left-hand corner. I take the central figure in the circle of teams as Grandpa, but I don't know the activity or anything about all the men in the background, naturally. The same house appears in the next photo too.
As Rich wrote on the back of the following photo, apparently taken in 1965, "This is the House that My Brother Chester Winford Luckert was born in known as the Old Chester Norton Place in the Hills 10 miles S-W of Bloomfield Nebraska." Dad/Jack described living in a dugout, a modified cave, when he was little, so I am missing great gaps.
This is a good photo of Grandma Luckert, Anna Jones Luckert, the man identified as her father, but I think it's her brother, Walt Jones, with "1918" at its top. He's too young to be her dad and too good-humored. Aunt Betty looked very much like her mother.
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