This is my recent submission to FOUND Magazine. I found this in a 1943 edition of Emily Bronte’s "Wuthering Heights" that I picked up at the annual library used book sale in Avon-By-The-Sea, NJ in the summer of 2006. The old photo was neatly tucked in between pages 56 and 57 at the start of chapter10, forgotten and unseen until I purchased the old beautifully dusty and moldy book for a quarter. I like the front image of this found photograph as much as the back. The back adds more mystery to the portrait. The clumps of hair and fuzz, the remnants of a red paper scrapbook it may have once resided in, a lot of old glue, and the studio’s stamp. And just what is the significance of the number 34 written in pencil? There are so many questions I have and so many stories I have come up with about the little sepia baby, but in the end I just like to believe that it has some link to Bernard J. Taylor (the composer for the 1990’s musical of “Wuthering Heights”) because on the inside front cover of the book someone also scribbled in pencil “J. Taylor”, Bernard’s father (John Taylor), possibly?
Posted by missmarymackk on 2008-03-20 15:58:08
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