+WE CAN GATHER MUCH KNOWLEDGE+ >about our ancestors by enlarging (AT LEAST 300 PERCENT) >family snapshots from past time ********************************* >for less then 10 dollars i have just enlarged many ray/degruy photos 300% via fast >XEROGRAPHY< (kinkos/fed.ex) *************** >I OWN A RAY / deGRUY FAMILY PHOTO ALBUM FROM 1918 ( expressing ) +COVINGTON LIVING+ >that is priceless< **************** >FOR COMPREHENSION OF THEIR FAMILY MIES EN SCENE AND +L I F E S T Y L E+ *************** >COVINGTON JOY DOCUMENTED< >family photography had become very affordable and popular in the years around the 1st world war. the tool ************************************ >WAS THE EASTMAN KODAK< (my aunts , called all cameras "kodaks" all of their lives.) ************************* >THE PRIMARY RAY/deGRUY RESIDENCE IN THOSE DAYS WAS SPRUCE STREET IN NEW ORLEANS UNTIL THEY built the johnson st. house. **************************** >BUT THEY LOVED COVINGTON AND RENTED A WONDERFUL RAMBLING, >typical ozone belt country home with a huge veranda complete w/ wooden rockers & swing. ***************************** +LUCIE VERLOIN deGRUY RAY+ >my grandmother suffered from asthma and covington air aided her health to a large extent. my grandfather, who +EUGENE RAY+ >was a traveling salesman for dwyer brothers and woodward wight of new orleans commuted daily. ****************************** +FRANCOIS VERLOIN deGRUY+ and his wife +FILICIE FOUCHER deGRUY+ >my grandmother's grandparents had fled the n.o. horror of ( TO PINELAND PARK ) >yellow fever, many years before in the 1830s to establish a (MADISONVILLE) >saint tammany parish >PLANTATION< (and cultural island) ******************* +(ozone plantation passion)+ >THIS TRADITION BECAME A DEEP GENETIC MEMORY FOR MY FAMILY FOR 150 YEARS ************************ >family st. tammany devotion shows very clearly in the dozens of >FASCINATING PHOTOS< ************************ 1) the large rambling summer home shaded by huge covington trees >RELAXING / PEACEFUL< >the pine oil aroma, the sound of mocking birds, fireflies, +CICADAS AFTER RAIN+ ********************** 2) the photo of lucie verloin degruy ray sitting on the veranda. her > SMILING < >hair up in a bun, crochet at her neck. fancy jacket. > EAR RINGS < >inked words on photo >"D A R L I N G"< ************* 3) eugene ray, (grandfather) in three piece suit, glasses, immaculate, neat hair, with son, lloyd, my >GODFATHER< >uncle, standing in yard (SUN/PINE TREES) >about 10 years of age >WINNING SMILE< **************** >SIGMA-CHI PRESIDENT< >destined for tulane, distinguished n.o. lawyer, 2nd w.w. judge ad- (POPULAR, GENEROUS) vocate, bouganville vet. and >head of c.i.a. in new orleans. >DURING KENNEDY YEARS< *************************** >a great story teller< +ADORED BY EVERYONE+ >a man of peace, religeon and +DEEP CIVILITY+ ************** to be continued... gene ray, san diego, california (google) eugenerayart.com