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Which damage did Dad make with the ball?

He said it was on the right hand side.

They told him, " Don't bounce the ball in the house." And that's what happened. And that picture meant a lot to the whole family. That's why they had copies made for everybody.

So your grandpa did that.

He was only eight or ten or something. He should have known better. But everybody wanted a copy of the same picture because they had grown up with it.

There is no signature on there. Where did the picture come from in the first place? Does anybody know?

Yeah, it came from the Minburn Sports Day. Mom says she watched the man painting it.

Yeah.

You don't remember anything about the painting except that you saw it on that easel?

Yeah, that's right. And that I knew that it was a copy of the old one, because it looked like somebody had thrown a ball through the old one or something. [Laughs]

Well, that's what happened actually.

[She laughs]

You didn't hear that story at the reunion?

No, I didn't.

Uncle David bounced a ball through it.

Oh, did he?

When He was a kid.

Oh, I bet he was in big trouble for that.

There is no signature on there. Where did the picture come from in the first place? does anybody know?

Yeah, it came from the Minburn Sports Day. Mom says she watched the man painting it.

Oh.

You know they are like buskers only they are painters.

Yeah.

She doesn't know how it got into Grandma Park's house. It either was gifted to them or they bought it at the Sports Day from the man.

Maybe.

No signature.

Well, he's just out there dashing them off, to make a living I guess. So they moved into Great Grandma's house to take care of her when Grandpa Park died. When my grandpa sold all his land and moved to Vegreville they took that picture with them.

Oh, I believe so. yeah.

By then the cardboard was so brittle it just broke when Uncle David's ball bounced against it.

Somebody said your mother was present at the time that one was painted.

Yeah. Sandy says he doesn't know if that is true or not but Mom insists she watched the man paint that when she was a child.

She's older than Sandy so....

Yeah,

So he might not remember. He might have been too young at the time.

It's a good thing I didn't throw it out. I was going to.

Another picture is coming. Hold the whole show!

We're going to unveil another masterpiece!

Do you want to ring the bell?

I don't have a bell.

It's fascinating how they all looked at the original and came up with a different.....

Yeah. He told me at dinner that he threw the ball through it. I asked Sandy if he could remember. He said he wasn't there. I said that's too bad because then he could have blamed you. [laughs]

So the only thing you remember about it is.......

The picture?

Yes.

It hung on the south wall in the living room at Vegreville and one time Dave was bouncing a ball off the wall and he bounced it through the corner of the picture.

Yes.

So Mom had to, ah, patch it up the best she could. [chuckles]

Well, I just heard that story from Bessie too when I talked to her the other night.

When I referred to that painting she said, "Yes, Dave was bouncing a ball around when he wasn't supposed to. It wasn't allowed. "

Yes.

Oh! That's the original is it? I guess so.

Yeah, that's the original.

That got hit with the ball once. Heh, heh, heh.

Was it you or David that hit it with the ball?

David. David or some of his friends. I don't know.

He had friends there?

Yeah. I don't know if he could have done it in Vegreville or in Minburn. Minburn, I guess.

No, it was in Vegreville.

Oh, maybe, yeah.

The ball hit the corner there, above the tall trees.

Yeah.

I was wondering if you remember any more about when you bounced the ball into it.

I remember distinctly. I think I was probably only about 13 years old. I shouldn't have been bouncing the ball in the house and I knew that. I was told not to do that.

So you were told....

I was throwing it against the wall and catching it you know.

Yes.

And I didn't throw right once. I threw a little crooked.

And he was 12 or 13 years old.

I didn't get a lickin' for it but I felt so bad because I knew my mother felt so bad.

Because the painting was spoiled.

Yeah.

Ohh.

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