My Parents and Me, Age 18 months – April 1955

These photos were taken in April of 1955, soon after my parents and I moved to Maple Street in Woodrow, a community just across Jack Smith Creek from New Bern. You can see the new mailbox and post that had not yet been installed, plus some pipes and a trench for plumbing. My hair was curly in the back, as I hadn’t yet gotten my first haircut. The barber came to the house and gave me my first haircut in the kitchen.

Daddy and me

Me, showing off my curly hair

Mama and me