From franny@inreach.com Tue Jul  3 23:19:14 2001
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 22:40:37 -0700
From: Frances Whitney <franny@inreach.com>
To: leonardr@segfault.org
Subject: [Fwd: Family History Bridges]

another article

    [ Part 2: "Included Message" ]

Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:55:20 -0700
From: Frances Whitney <franny@inreach.com>
To: Jonathan D. Whitney <jonwhitney@juno.com>,
     Jonathan Whitney <jdwhitney@mmm.com>,
     Joseph L. Whitney <chez_whitney@deseretonline.com>,
     LeJeune Whitney <lejeune@olympus.net>, Marianne Morse <MORSE1@prodigy.net>,
     Marlene Bursell <marbursell@hotmail.com>,
     Ralph Boswell <ralphboswell@hotmail.com>,
     Robert Whitney <robertlw@fgm.com>, Sandi Whitney <sandiwhitney@juno.com>,
     Susie Q <swishina@hotmail.com>, Suzi Griffith <suzi@mashell.com>
Subject: Family History Bridges

Here is something I wrote today while I was making scrapbook pages of
Grandpa Whitney's old bridges.

frances
xooxox

    My grandfather, Lewis J. Whitney, was a contractor who built many
houses, highways, tunnels, and bridges, including the one through Zion
Canyon.    He died when I was a toddler, and although I don't have any
memory of him, I'm told we were crazy about each other.

    I have had sitting on my desk for the last year some old B&W photos
of construction of some of the bridges which were preserved by my aunt
LeJeune Whitney.  The plan was to make a scrapbook page of bridges.  To
these, I added prints from some slides I took when Aunt Jeuney and I
took a trip through southern Utah in April of  1984 to find and
photograph some of the bridges.  I'd actually never looked at these
slides, except by holding them up to a window briefly, and was quite
impressed by the way I captured the monumental size of the projects as
well as the glowering Utah sky.  I printed these off with  my new Epson
Perfection 1200 scanner, and the color is  fabulous.

    Today I went to craft stores to try to find some background paper
which would be suitable for a pair of bridge pages.  I found a soft grey
and beige "toile" print of (French?  Italian?) bridges, and also a new
sticker design sheet by PSE of suns, rainbows, stars, and old-fashioned
hot air balloons--very subtle colors, and including a saying that reads
"I'll always be a dreamer."    I also picked up a small grey bulldozer
die-cut.  While I was selecting these materials I felt my grandfather's
spirt very near me, and he stayed with me as I matted the photos and
laid out the pages.  I felt very touched and grateful for this brief
contact with someone from the other side of the veil.

frances
xoxoxo