GALLERY OF PHOTOS — click a thumbnail for a larger version    Curtis Ridge
	Sometime in the Sixties — I'm going to guess 1967 — my mother's brothers Jim and Ralph, along with Ralph's wife Esther, returned to see the old homestead. (TEXT CONTINUED BELOW) The house had been vacant for years, and some pieces of trim were falling off. (TEXT CONTINUED BELOW) I myself didn't see the old farm until 1971, when my parents and I paid a visit and I took the picture below.  By then, a tree had grown up in front of one window.