Peg | Tim Driskell

The First of Six

Peg is my oldest sister, born in 1955 when Mom and Dad were still very young. At the time they could not have known that they were about to have three children in three years—and eventually six children in only ten years.

Because she came first, Peg was there at the beginning of nearly every chapter of our family story. She knew our parents before the house filled with babies, toddlers, school clothes, birthdays, church steps, beach trips and all the commotion that followed.

These early photographs show Peg not only as a little girl, but as the beginning of the sibling group that would define our family for decades.

Mom, Dad and Peg together in an early family photograph — Mom, Dad and Peg—our family before the parade of younger brothers and sisters began.

Becoming the Big Sister

Sharlotte came next, then Tim, followed by Liz, Mary and Jody. Peg’s childhood was therefore spent inside a family that was constantly changing. There was almost always another baby, another toddler, another birthday cake or another group photograph to arrange.

In the pictures, Peg often appears at one side of the growing group—older, taller and already part of the structure that held the younger children together. Some photographs are formal portraits, while others are wonderfully ordinary: sitting on steps, posing at the beach or gathering outside church.

The restored images bring back color, but the unrestored originals remain part of the album too. Together they preserve both the history of the photographs and the people in them.

Peg, Sharlotte and Tim together as young children — Peg with Sharlotte and Tim during the early years of the growing family.

Dad holding Peg, Sharlotte on the steps, and Mom holding baby Tim — Dad holding Peg, Sharlotte seated on the steps, and Mom holding baby Tim.

Peg, Joe and Bare Hill Pond

As an adult, Peg married Joe and they raised three boys. They were part of the large extended-family gatherings that became such an important part of our lives.

Peg and Joe also bought a summer camp only a couple of camps away from ours at Bare Hill Pond. That kept them close during the summers, when the pond became a family neighborhood filled with boats, docks, swimming, cookouts, campfires and visits from relatives.

When Mom and Dad returned from Texas in 1985, they lived in Peg’s place for a while. By then the pond had become one of the centers of our family life, and Peg’s camp was part of that story.

Restored school portrait of Peg — A restored school portrait of Peg.

Peg and the Siblings

These photographs are part of the shared siblings album. Each full-size image opens in a new window. The filenames use permanent sequential numbers, lowercase letters, hyphens and no spaces.

Peg school portrait — Peg’s school portrait.

Peg, Liz, Mary, Jody, Tim and Sharlotte outside church — Restored photograph of all six siblings outside church.

Unrestored photograph of Peg, Liz, Mary, Jody, Tim and Sharlotte outside church — The unrestored original of the same six-sibling photograph.

Dad, Peg, Sharlotte, Mom and baby Tim on the stairs — Dad holding Peg, Sharlotte on the steps, and Mom holding baby Tim.