Ou sont les neiges d'antan.
If you recognize that line, you've probably seen (or at least read) The Glass Menagerie. As great an artist as he was, Tennessee Williams didn't write that line: He took it from Ballade des dames du temps jadis (Ballad of the Ladies of Ancient Times), a poem Francois Villon wrote some four centuries earlier.
The line means "Where have the snows of yesteryear gone?" Most of us, I believe, have asked some version or another of that question at least once in our lives: perhaps when looking at an old photo album or yearbook, for instance.
Even if I have no connection to the subjects of an old image, I can't help but to wonder who they are and where they might be now.
This photo was taken by John E. Scott and is dated 27 October 1954. Posted on the website of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, it shows boys with bicycles they'd won in a contest which may have been sponsored by the Montgomery Examiner in Alabama.
Hmm...Not only do I wonder where those boys are, I wonder whether any of them are still riding today. One can hope!
If you recognize that line, you've probably seen (or at least read) The Glass Menagerie. As great an artist as he was, Tennessee Williams didn't write that line: He took it from Ballade des dames du temps jadis (Ballad of the Ladies of Ancient Times), a poem Francois Villon wrote some four centuries earlier.
The line means "Where have the snows of yesteryear gone?" Most of us, I believe, have asked some version or another of that question at least once in our lives: perhaps when looking at an old photo album or yearbook, for instance.
Even if I have no connection to the subjects of an old image, I can't help but to wonder who they are and where they might be now.
This photo was taken by John E. Scott and is dated 27 October 1954. Posted on the website of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, it shows boys with bicycles they'd won in a contest which may have been sponsored by the Montgomery Examiner in Alabama.
Hmm...Not only do I wonder where those boys are, I wonder whether any of them are still riding today. One can hope!
