This sweet Memory of Mom comes from Michael Brein, an author and publisher who’s also known as The Travel Psychologist.

Thanks, Michael!

I thought to myself, “Mom,” (who passed on many years ago), “I’m going to Galveston, Texas, to visit friends there. I’ll go the the public library there and look for you. I mean, I’ll look for the photo you were in when you were Miss Pennsylvania, as a participant in the ‘International Bathing Girl Review.'”

And, this I did.

I found her picture and showed it to my friends, saying, “This is my Mom. She was Miss Pennsylvania and was in this pageant in 1928, standing on the seawall in a long line of girls wearing their banners with their countries and states on them!”