Just Ducky

This is a very weathered image from the May 8, 1949, Indianapolis Star newspaper.

The caption reads "The ducks on Lake Sullivan are a drawing card for many youngsters and their mothers on sunny spring afternoons. John David Wild always makes sure mother, Mrs. John F. Wild III, and grandmother, Mrs. Clem Stair, keep him well supplied with bread for the birds."

From the date of the paper, that would make me just about two weeks past my second birthday. Times were good then, as I had no worries whatsoever. My grandmother appears to be using an Easter basket to hold the bread crumbs, and I am wearing a long coat over short pants, and some sort of short billed hat. Pictured are a Canada Goose and what appears to be a Muscovy Duck begging for bread. You have to admire my grandmothers hat - I think the Goose might want to eat those huge flowers on it, however.

Also note the masthead of the paper - "Section 3-A Women's Interests". Over sixty years ago, pictures of little boys and their mothers and grandmothers apparently were of no interest to men. You have to wonder if the Business section back then was called "Men's Interests"?

Anyway, came across this when doing the cleaning out of my mother's home in Arizona, this past several weeks. Thought it might be interesting to share, and please forgive the poor quality of the image - newsprint doesn't wear well after sixty years. Oh, my mother (now 90) is the reason I was not John F. Wild IV - some dynasties are best killed in infancy.