These wild-looking devils are Angells, the sons of James Angell of Gridley Hollow. The one on your left is your grandfather. In the middle Is Darwin, who inherited the homestead and mill at Gridley Hollow and lived there all his life. Two of his daughters you knew -- Julia and Sarah.

At Thanksgiving these Angell boys used to gather at the home of your grandfather in Waverly and before dinner would always have a game of football in the orchard, their heads protected by their stove-pipe hats which they wore come hell or high water -- or football. It made a great impression on your Uncle Jim who remembered these occasions well.