It's always fun to see a package on the porch postmarked in Kettering Ohio. You can usually guess part of what's inside, but also can wonder if there might be little surprise too. Just before this Christmas I found such a package on the porch. The size and heft of it suggested the name Esther Price to me. Y'all know Esther?
According to Wikipedia: Esther Price Candies sells its products in 87 store locations in five states, including Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Illinois. Esther Price Candies was founded in 1926, and produces about one million boxes of candy per year. The company employs about 100 people. Its chocolates are made at the Wayne Avenue facility in Dayton [Ohio].
We have received many of those boxes of candy during the last few decades. Before her death in 2021 my Mother also often received a box of those delicious chocolates on her birthday.
Thank you Mike Bock.
Several times Sheila and I have taken that box with us to the live nativity scene at our church to share with the folks who have volunteered with us. We did that again last Thursday night. Wow! Every morsel was eaten. We were so glad that they were so enjoyed -- compliments of one of closest and oldest friends.
But chocolates were not all that was in that package. Besides a nice Christmas card and handwritten greeting there were two loose photographs. The first is of Sheila, me, and Mike along the Tearbritches Trail in the Cohutta Wilderness of North Georgia in 1973. Almost half a century ago. The second? We are not absolutely certain. I can tell that's me taking a picture. When and where was this taken, Mike? Is that baby Brannon? Lillian? I am just not sure!
