{"id":7423,"date":"2018-05-21T15:11:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T22:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/?p=7423"},"modified":"2018-05-21T15:14:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T22:14:46","slug":"skiing-sillyness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/skiing-sillyness\/","title":{"rendered":"Skiing sillyness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I often like to tie my posts into larger research or historical contexts, or to publish a post on a significant anniversary that the post discusses. Sometimes I’ll take a deep dive into a mystery photo or object to see if I can discover some previously lost context. And then there’s today’s post. I suppose this can be a new category of post\u2014silly things that make me laugh.<\/p>\n

Without further ado, here’s the photo that made me laugh today:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Yep. That’s my grandmother Dorothy dressed as a South Seas skier. I don’t know if bamboo poles were standard back then, or whether she went the extra tiki mile for this outfit.<\/p>\n

This photo was taken just a few months after Dorothy married Vernon Black on December 18, 1940.<\/p>\n

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Mt. Rainier Olympia Ski Club costume race, 1941.<\/p>\n

Dorothy Black, Harry + Nell Mawson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sure, I could<\/em> try to make this into a post on the history of recreational skiing on Mr. Rainier, or on early mid-century Polynesian cultural appropriation. But I’m not going to do that. Some things are better left as they were found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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