PEEK INTO THE PAST

The Home Place on Williams Road

            Did you ever wonder what the Williams farm looked like?  Here’s your chance to see Elmer's woolly flock, Boyd on his horse, Donna with her piglets, and little Max barreling down the creek. Judging from the estimated age of Max, the barnyard footage was probably shot before 1940. The scenes inside the house seem to be taken just before Dean and Rob reported for military duty during World War II.

            Note:  When the 8mm footage was originally transferred to video tapes, and then later to DVDs, by a professional service many years ago, I tried to have them label some of the people. You will notice that at least one of the names is wrong – Vera was identified as Vera Mae. I’m sorry. Unfortunately, I wasn’t looking over their shoulders. The background music was also added at that time, and as cuts have been made to consolidate different footage into this segment the music sometimes changes rather abruptly.