UPDATE: Family located… Right here on Cape Cod!! Artist Steve Swain, owner of the Frying Pan Art Gallery in Wellfleet found a broken, beat-up and run-over camera in the gravel parking lot of his gallery in Wellfleet. It was damaged so badly, he didn’t think anything was salvageable. Just in case… Steve held onto the camera.
Fast forward to this week and Steve managed to clean up the camera and retrieve several pictures!
Through a series of posts on Facebook pages, including the Wellfleet Police Department, the owners were located! As it turns out, the camera belongs to the wife of the Dept Chief of Police for the Town of Harwich!
UPDATE #2: I had the chance to speak with Dept Chief Tom Gagnon and this is what he told me:
“Again, thanks so much for all you have done. The main pictures were from Thanksgiving at my home in November of 2010. The entire family came down to be with my father in law as my mother in law had passed a couple of months before. They had been married for over 60 years so of course he was still upset. My wife, Theresa, believes that the camera may have fallen from her vehicle or her purse as she believes she was visiting stores in the area of the art gallery. Some of the pictures include my son David Gagnon, my nephew Braden Long, my father in law Paul Long who passed in 2013, my daughter Kathryn Gagnon and my niece Lyndsay Long. Many thanks as you help make our day.”
Steve Swain was able to send as many of the images from the damaged camera as he could salvage.
I do love a happy ending!
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