The Waite Family at the Homestead, Hubbardston, Mass.

This is one of my favorite photos from the Waite archive because it shows members of the extended family at home. I'm imagining that this is a Sunday afternoon in the spring, perhaps just after a big Sunday dinner. It certainly captures a time and place in the old New England, perhaps sometime around 1915 or so?

In any case, I've uploaded a high-resolution image so that if you click on the photo you'll see a larger size with a fair amount of detail.

Cany any one identify the location of this photo in Hubbardston? I'm told, however, that the house is long gone.

By the way, the young man sitting directly behind the dog looks a lot like your trusty author. The fact that he's sitting next to Carrie (to his right), my grandmother (who looks a lot like my mom), well, that just makes the whole scene a bit more interesting in a visual sense for me.

Meantime, here's the information that's written on the reverse side of the photo:

The Waite Homestead, Hubbardston, MA
Carrie [Aldrich] and Sidney Waite sitting in front of their dog
Luella Waite (later Wead) to the left of them
In the back are:
Half sisters, Anna Waite (born 1847, married John Rice, 1870) and
Mary Persis (born 1850, married John Holden 1868); their mother: Persis (not in the picture)
Persis Waite of Barre, married Arron Waite 1842. She died 1874
Half brother, Edward, born 1851 (in the back row)
Young boy, son of either Anna or Mary
Aaron Waite is the man with the beard, father of Sidney Waite