Sheila has sorta collected hand held fans since we have been hosting a party for Independence Day each year. Independence Day seems to almost always fall in July which is a hot month and hand held fans can be useful in moving the air a bit as well as shooing flies and mosquitoes. Over the 30 years since that first party in 1993 she has accumulated a pretty good basket full. Some have seen a lot of use. They represent lots of different parts of our lives over these three decades: a wedding, historical events, the olympics, businesses, politics, watermelon, theatre, school, healthcare, and more. This year they were left out and got wet from the rain. Since many were spread on a table to dry I decided to group them together for a picture.
