Christmas Greetings, 1948
Can you tell that I was ailing, when Pappy stood us together for this shot? Some of us thought it distinctly unfair that I should be sick so often at holiday time. By and large, I was actually quite a healthy child.

These days, we’d achieve this sort of composite effect in Photoshop, but we four actually occupied these relative positions, for the photo shoot, with the help of stools and such, and Pappy did the cropping, matting, framing, and assembly with an Xacto knife and transparent tape.
Mammy wrote on the back of the card they sent to Aunt Verna and Uncle Ken in Park Valley. She didn’t think much of this particular example of Pappy’s artistry.

Interesting, by the way, that she should address her sister and family as “kids.” I received the card in a bunch of memorabilia after Alfa Jean’s funeral1 and might have thought she sent it to those Carters, except that Alfa and Kent didn’t marry until 1949.
1December 22, 2008, in Centerville, Utah. Alfa Jean married her first cousin (Bryan Kent Carter, son of Uncle Ken’s brother Gordon), becoming Alfa Jean Carter Carter. Genetically speaking, it was all right, by the way: Alfa was adopted.
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