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When I was twenty, I moved to Vancouver, Canada. I lived in a very old building that i shared with about ten other people, that used to house a hospice. Rumor had it we lived in the same neighborhood as Goldie Hawn, but who knows. All around us were million dollar mansions and manicured lawns,… Read more.
My Grandmother on the Canadian prairie in about 1916. This was one of the first negatives of her mothers that my Grandmother gave me, and it remains one of my favorites. Perhaps it’s that Lewis Hine like sentiment that I find so attractive.
A few days ago a posted a snapshot my grandmother had taken of my mother as a girl in the 1950′s. Here is a snapshot of my grandmother, taken by my great-grandmother, Emma, in 1918, when my grandmother was 7 years old. My grandmother is sitting second from the left. I imagine what life would have been like for Emma, moving with her family to various places her husband had been promised opportunities, farming land that was sometime fertile and sometime not, and never letting that camera out of her hands.
