Dear Children: Reminisces and Gleanings Of A Father By Carol Estes

Dear Children: Reminisces and Gleanings Of A Father

By Carol Estes

Historical perspective of one man's poetical renderings. A life journey as a boy from Wales to San Francisco, where he met his sunset. A prolific desire to learn and pen his thoughts in story and verse.

In the early 1970’s, my grandmother, Ella Richards Estes, sent my father, A.T. Estes, a box of papers from Bakersfield CA. The contents were an amazing look thru the eye and pen of John Barrons Richards, my great grandfather. His family took the arduous journey on the Steamer Palestine from Wales when he was 14. They landed in Boston, and stepped onto American soil with flags at half-staff after President Garfield was shot in 1881.

He wrote religiously, documenting miners in Wales, family, and politics of the 1930's. He penned ruminations and reflections during those difficult years spent in San Francisco. He loved writing poetry and essays on literary greats, like Shakespeare, Sidney Lanier, and he references others. There were wonders, like the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937, and the Golden Gate International Exposition (World's Fair) in 1939.

He had such a love for San Francisco. Introspective, and true to himself, he penned lyrical language far beyond his final school days at age 14. He stirs emotion, a nod to history, and passes on his life lessons.

The letters, stories, and gleanings were stored forever in my father’s WW2 Army foot locker. I remember as a teenager, taking a rare glimpse thru the prolific acidic, hand-typed pages. I had a dream to save these words and contemporaneous perspectives for those that come after us.

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