A summer's day in the 1950s in Lake City, Minn.

Greetings, cousins, aunts, uncles and Sprick groupies. The scrapblog editor knows you're out there, because she's hearing from you. Uncle Joe has sent polite corrections on dates (the scrapbook editor had written that the U.S. centennial was in 1874 -- good enough error for a Burnt Wienie nomination, Uncle J.?), and cousins Leah, Sandy and Sam have written to say they like it. So far, no one has sued, but stay tuned. After a day spent trailing some young Mormon missionaries for a Star Tribune story (the life of a religion reporter is never dull), the scrapblog editor came home with a Mormon yen -- to do some genealogy. Nope, not in order to do postmortem baptisms, but just to see what we can find in the deep, slightly musty boxes of family photos rescued from Alverna's garage in Lake City, Minn. Here's one we found -- a few of our female forebears on a day of leisure in the early 1950s. That's Marion, Florence and Patty-Lou, Grandma Sprick, Emma, Vi and Adelaide, with Annette peeking over Flo's head. The photos was apparently taken outside Grandma's old house in Lake City. They're so glamorous and dressed up; must not have been a fish-cleaning day.