In July of 1939 James and John were accompanied to the top of Baxter Mountain, in Keene Valley, New York (one of my Dad's favorite places) to pick blueberries. In this photograph (l-r) we have Hannah Lidia (Longmore) Hartpence, Lillian Morley (Sigley) Tidd, James Brook [later Francis] Tidd, John Armitage Hartpence, Esq, and in Hannah's lap is little John Armitage Tidd. Dad still has the somewhat cherubic look. Great Uncle John was a noted lawyer.
About a year later John and James posed with their mother, Lillian. Dad must have had one hell of a growth spurt, cause he has already the long gangly frame he was known for.
You can see even better Dad's well-known knobby knees in this one. World War II was on for America, and here we have the boys standing with Wilbur Shaw (who I do not know). Dad is holding a rifle, an early foreshadowing of his lifelong love for weapons, especially tinkering with them.
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