Having free time in long winter evenings, I enjoy skimming through my family's archive. Here I'm holding in my hands a bunch of photographs, cuttings from newspapers. Unfortunately, these have nothing to do with my relatives. They were brought from Boston, USA, where I was paying a visit in 2001. I took them with me hoping to return them to their original owners one day. To return, because for unknown reasons they ended up in a street, among thrown - away things…
When I came across this album I lifted it, then opened. In the pages, emerged the whole life of an unknown family… I just couldn't leave it lying there, so I brought it home.
Alone in the evening, I carefully went through it. Newspaper cuttings gave me an idea, that this album concerns family story of a person called E. WILLIAM MYERS (1890 - 1973). At that time, this family lived in Kingston, Massachusetts. William had two sons: Harry and Donald.
Like in the most of such albums, first pictures were the oldest. While there were people of my own generation with grandchildren on their knees or even as young as my children watching me from the latest ones.
Did I try to find the descendants of these people on my own? Yes, more than once. I wrote to Boston newspapers, kept sending emails to the addresses found on the Internet on the surname Myers…I even wrote some paper letters to the addresses found in the phone book. Yet my efforts weren't fruitful.
Recently, I've got an idea, that maybe the readers of "Bernardinai.lt" (particularly Lithuanians, living in the USA) could help me to give these photographs back to whom they belong. Wouldn't it be nice if their story finally came to an end?
P.S. Pityingly, I didn't manage to find more precise dates, that could be useful for the search. In my view, the newspaper clipping is important, because it contains quite a lot of information. As well as the photo, made in 1945, because the people depicted should still be alive.
