Category: Photography

Cemeteries, Photography

Lee Brown Family

Shelly

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Brown / Marion Lee 1862-1930 / Lourena 1864-1930 / Paul 1901-1930

I took this photo at Lanam Ridge Cemetery in 2010. I wondered then how and why all three of them had died at the same time. Surely there was a story there?

Fast forward a few years, and by strange coincidence a coworker and I were drafted to work on a photo cataloging project, researching and adding subject metadata to a collection of historic photos taken by Frank Hohenberger, a local photographer. Within the collection was a group of photos of the investigation into the murders of the Lee Brown family of Brown County, Indiana.

Now, I wasn’t the one who was researching that particular set of photos. My coworker was. She messaged me and asked me to come over to her cubicle to look at something. While trying to figure out the story behind Chester Bunge and the Lee family murders, she found my photo of the Lee headstone at Findagrave.

So now I know (sort of) what happened to the Lee family and why they all died at the same time. They were murdered. (And part two, covering the coroner’s inquest.)

Source: Frank M. Hohenberger Photograph Collection – “Group at Brown murder scene”, Lilly Library, Indiana University

Pets, Photography

Seal Ears and Bitty Teefs 

Shelly

Seal Ears and Bitty Teefs #dogs #pitbulls #pitbullterriers #pitbullcomplaints #sealears #atthevetagain

Frances went back to the vet today. She’s had a rash on her belly that wasn’t improving (or getting any worse). I tried giving her Benadryl for 36 hours, and then tried topical Benadryl spray. No change.

That was actually good news. An allergic reaction, like hives, could mean that she’s got another mast cell tumor growing. We don’t want that!

So I think allergies can be ruled out. The vet put her on a course of antibiotics, with the assumption that it’s a post-op staph infection. Hopefully that will clear everything up.

(That’s her “You aren’t shoving treats into my mouth fast enough” look.)

Pets, Photography

Bath Time for Frances

Shelly

Bath Time for Frances #dogs #pitbulls #pitbullterriers #bathtime

I had intended to give Frances a bath last night, because she was ridiculously stinky after being in a cone for a month, but I decided against it. I felt like she had had enough excitement for one day.

So today was bath day. And new collar day. The vet had used her old pink skull collar to strap down her cone, and it was too stinky to salvage.

Aside from her bath, Frances spent the day alternating between napping and playing rolly-poly.

Rolly-poly #dogs #pillingdogs #pitbullterriers #rollypoly