{"id":573899381,"date":"2026-09-27T20:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573899381"},"modified":"2026-10-03T04:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:08:36","slug":"the-rare-weekend-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/09\/27\/the-rare-weekend-post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The rare weekend post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After church and lunch, we stopped by my grandparents’ home. My mother and grandfather had recently found a box that she wanted me to see. Apparently no one knew it existed. And, inside, you could see some old newspaper clippings, a few letters, some note cards that my grandfather used to write out notes for his sermons, and so on. There was some of their school memorabilia in there, too. My grandmother’s high school tassel in there. Also, there was a little memory book from her graduating class, and her diploma. My grandfather’s high school diploma was in the box, too. It’s all a trip back in time. <\/p>\n

Here’s the cover to his diploma, class of 1951. <\/p>\n

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He also had some sort of memory book that was stored away in the box. He must have been a popular kid. Lots of signatures, names that mean nothing to me, but a lot to others. A few pictures. There were some notes of things that must have made sense 75 years ago. There was a picture of him, a studio headshot, maybe it was his graduation photo. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it before. <\/p>\n

I was also interested in the line art.<\/p>\n

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I think it is important to note that my grandfather went to a Bible school. <\/p>\n

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Also, attitudes about these sorts of things might have been different three-quarters of a century ago. <\/p>\n

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I really want to know where the school purchased these books. I’m sure they caused quite a stir.<\/p>\n

This is my favorite one. I’m saving it for some as yet unknown special occasion. I’ll change the text and use it somewhere and I’ll remember that my grandfather, as a boy, looked at this image. <\/p>\n

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I never knew him. He died soon after I was born. We met once. And I “heard” one of his last sermons. He’d come to visit and the local church had asked him to preach. Of course I was an infant, so I have only the retelling. I’m told I have some of his mannerisms when speaking, though. How could that be?<\/p>\n

There was also a little bag of coins in this newly discovered box. I’m going to share a few more of them this week, but, for now, here’s some mid-century Canadian pennies.<\/p>\n

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So my mother is bordering on becoming a numismatist. She’s downloaded an app and is scanning these things in and telling me about the coins. It is fun and infectious and charming. And then she says to me, she says, “When you find out more about them, let me know.” <\/p>\n

So I have to do what I do now.<\/p>\n

That’s somewhere between six cents and $10,000 in my hand right there. I’m pretty confident it’s closer to six cents. <\/p>\n

While I didn’t take a photo of the reverse side (for some reason) the one interesting thing of note is that the 1957 coin has Queen Elizabeth’s likeness. The others have King George’s. (His coin image looks nothing like the movies.) I’m assuming that 1952 penny was one of the last one’s struck. The KG does not stand for King George, but rather G.E. Kruger-Gray, who designed the leaves. He was a British artist. He did coats of arms, coins for places all over the British Empire and stained glass windows. He died in 1943. With just a few exceptions Canada used his design for another 70 years after his death. <\/p>\n

We’ll wonder forever how these six coins came to sit in a box in Alabama for decades. We’ll wonder forever when they landed there. It’s better when there’s a little wonder. It makes you look for more. <\/p>\n

Look in all the boxes. <\/p>\n

Because you have no idea what you’ll find. And, as you’ll see sometime in the next few days, you can make some wonderful discoveries inspired by that sort of wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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