Well

My Mom recalls how the backyard of her childhood home featured an old-fashioned well. One afternoon when her mother, Jadzė, went to the well to draw up some water, Jadzė's favorite gold, chain-link bracelet unclasped and fell from her wrist to the well's bottom.

I asked my Mom whether this photo captured the moment when someone tried to retrieve the bracelet. She answered in the negative. These boys simply were two neighbors joking around.

Kaunas, Lithuania, about 1936. Two brothers stand by the well on Hipodromo gatvė.