Here is the proprietor, Amy, at around one year old, having adventures with cups on strings. Aside from a few car rides to visit nearby family, my home and backyard were my world. By this age, my great-grandmother Annie would have been 'in utero around the Horn' as we say, born in the whaling enclave of Paita, Peru, taken to sea at six months old, and asea for several months, whales 'taken,' or scarce.
I would be learning to walk at this age. I've assumed Annie would have been learning too. But did she really need to? Confined in her tiny cabin, she would navigate like a sailor, with at least three parts of her body holding on to or braced against something at all times. On her occasional airings on deck she would be well-tied in, of that I'm sure. Annie was on the water for eighteen straight months (until about two years old). If she did learn to walk while afloat, she must have gotten her sea legs'' while I was getting my 'land legs.'
What were you doing at one year old?
Where did you learn to walk, if you did?
Can you imagine feeling land under your feet after 18 months at sea?
Would you have wanted to be Annie?
The picture that heads the second segment on the store's home page is of Annie, probably in Port Russell, New Zealand.
Do you think she is walking well by this time?
How does she seem to be taking to the land?
We'd love to hear from you!
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