My maternal grandmother was born at home, on the South Lubec Road in South Lubec, Maine, 130 years ago today. That's the road leading to the famous red and white striped West Quoddy Head Lighthouse. Her maternal grandfather was a Keeper and Assistant Keeper there. Nora was delivered at home by Dr. Eben Bennet, who was also FDR's doctor when he was vacationing on Campobello Island, N.B. across the Lubec Channel from Lubec, Maine USA.
I have colorized old photographic cabinet card, I think she was about 6 when it was taken. My grandmother's mother died when she was two, shortly after her brother Paul was born. Her stepmother died at 102 when my grandmother was in her 80s.
She was a central and beloved figure in my life, a storybook grandmother, a grandmother to all of my friends as well. I miss her everyday as we live here, sharing her memories in the house she and my grandfather bought in 1928, built the same year she was born. I met T shortly after my grandmother died. I wish T had known her.
For the Record,
This day was absolutely beautiful. We are tired, but happy with all the work we did in the woods and garden yesterday and today.
I retired from public school teaching after happily spending twenty eight years playing in Kindergarten. Now I fill my days watching cat antics, taking endless...
