Mother's Day 2025 rogue's gallery

Here's my mother, Martha Sidway Adams, posing with her offspring (me). This is probably about 1950. I suspect we had come from church. She looks happy and proud. I look rather miserable in those clothes, not surprisingly.

Here's my grandmother, Amelia Roberts Sidway, formally posed with her offspring in 1910. This photographer knew how to frame a shot. The standing child, my aunt Margaret, likes the pose, while my two year old mother looks a little discomfited. As was common at the time, my grandmother had already lost two children to childhood illnesses. She had reason to be happy and grateful for these healthy specimens.